Transcriber's Notes:
The following spelling/typographical errors have been changed.
- p19 - changed "defense" to "defence" for consistency with rest of book
- p74 - changed "treschkuit" to "trekschuit"
- p180 - changed "cites" to "cities"
- p194 - changed "tactiturn" to "taciturn">[
- p210 - changed "were" to "where" in 'the cell were (changed to where) Philip II. died;'
Other spelling, grammatical, punctuation and typographic errors have been left as in the original book.