Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling were not changed, except in a few cases where an Index entry was made consistent with the text on the page it referenced.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

In the Genealogy charts, the dagger † apparently indicates the last year of the King’s reign.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, resequenced, and positioned just before the Index.

[Page 68]: A possibly unbalanced quotation mark has not been remedied.

[Page 87]: For consistency with the text preceded by “(a)” on [page 85], the text beginning with “The _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_” on [page 87] perhaps should be preceded by “(b)”.