The Gresham Press
UNWIN BROTHERS,
WOKING AND LONDON.


Transcriber's note

A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected; they and other possible errors are listed below.

Inconsistent hyphenation: [nowadays] ([now-a-days]), [brushwood] ([brush-wood]), [footprints] ([foot-prints]).

Page 1: Page number corrected to [1] from 2.

Page 10: "Under the smoothe" corrected to "Under the [smooth]".

Page 14: "[seiges] of Milan" not changed; "[beseiges] their city" not changed.

Page 15: "lord of Normany" corrected to "lord of [Normandy]".

Page 17: "Manuel [Commenus]" probable error for "Manuel Comnenus". Not changed.