Transcribers' Notes
General : Errata listed have been applied to the text.
General : Page headers have been interpreted as sidenotes.
General : Changes to punctuation have not been individually documented.
General : No attempt made to standardise chief justice/chief-justice as both forms used approximately equally.
Pages 41, 295, 323, 345 : slave-trade standardised to slave trade.
Page 45 : hardworking standardised to hard-working.
Page 77 : "A little army under Major Adams," as in original.
Page 96 : ring-leader standardised to ringleader.
Page 101 : wide-spread standardised to widespread.
Page 114 : counter-balanced standardised to counterbalanced.
Page 127 : unpremediated changed to unpremeditated.
Page 140 : war-like standardised to warlike.
Page 154 : smallpox standardised to small-pox.
Pages 157, 364, 365 : Flag-ship standardised to flagship.
Page 166 : gun-boats standardised to gunboats.
Page 194 : outmanœuvred standardised to out-manœuvred.
Page 243 : log-wood standardised to logwood.
Page 248 : Afghán standardised to Afghan.
Page 376 : Sombrueil standardised to Sombreuil.
Pages 377, 491 : Ponthièvre standardised to Penthièvre.
Page 384 : Befal corrected to befall.
Page 417 : Sentence "Her assailants poured so fierce a storm of shot upon her that her crew could not get the fire under." as in original. Probably missing final word control.
Page 471 : Application of errata here has meant that the office of secretary of state for the northern department was not listed May-September 1763. This may or may not be correct.
Page 473 : Lt.-lieut. corrected to Ld.-lieut.
Page 477 : Asuf-ud-Daulá standardised to Asaf-ud-Daulá.
Page 481 : Drapier corrected to Draper.
Page 484 : Index entry for Admiral Thomas Graves corrected from 216 to 226.
Page 487 : Kempenfeldt moved to correct place in index.
Page 490 : Patna standardised to Patná.
Page 492 : Salbai standardised to Salbái.
Page 494 : Sultan standardised to Sultán.
Page 495 : Whateley standardised to Whately.