Page 389, entries for May 14 and 15, 1844: the order as given here is the one printed in the source document; the reason for the inverse order is not clear.

Page 422, item Charities &c, number 2: Since last Act: there appears to be a discrepancy between the individual amounts paid out and the sub-total given.

Changes made:

Footnotes, illustrations and tables have been moved outside text paragraphs; marginalia have been moved to where they appeared to fit best in the paragraph concerned. In certain tables, Do. or do. have been replaced with the dittoed text.

Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently. Some minor oddities in text lay-out have been changed silently for easier readability.

Repeated table and column headers, carry/brought forward, subtotals etc. on page transitions in lists and tables have been removed, except partly on the transition from page 423 to 424.

Suter and Souter have been standardised to Suter.

Page xi: the errata listed have already been corrected in the text. The amount L.93,306 : 8 : 10 does not occur on line 6 of page 178; the amount L.90,268, 12 : 1 that does occur on line 7 of that page has been replaced by L.86,977 : 17 : 7 as given in the Appendix (page 384).

Page 61, Footnote The last column of this table ...: ... will be G·MG·M′, by which expression ... changed to ... will be G·MG′·M′, by which expression ....

Page 231: In these figures, n n shews the reflector flame ... changed to In these figures, n n shews the reflector frame ....