Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced; some are noted in further detail below.
Page [71]: “In the year 750 [it should be 751]” is in the original book; it is not a note from the Transcribers of this eBook.
Page [93]: Missing ending quotation mark for text beginning with “The great distinction”. Transcriber added one after “sometimes assume.”
Page [115]: “of so noble” was printed as “of so no noble”; changed here.
Page [202]: “(791–842)” was printed as “(791–482)”; changed here.
Page [206]: Unbalanced quotation mark in the paragraph beginning “He says:”
Page [269]: “pre-eminence over them” was printed as “pre-eminence ever them”; changed here.
Page [329]: “he gave the Teutonic race” was printed as “the gave te Teutonic race”; corrected by Transcriber.
Page [332]: “Pippin of Landin” was printed as “Pippin of Landiu”; changed here, although modern conventional spelling is “Landen”.
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