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Transcriber’s Notes

The cover image was created by the transcriber from the title page and is placed in the public domain.

In a few cases, obvious errors in punctuation and accentuation were corrected.

A couple of words with inconsistent hyphenization were standardized.

“villien for two or three days” changed to “[villein for two or three days]

“unbiassed by any theory” changed to “[unbiased by any theory]

“à priori” changed to “

“Archiv fur Geschichte Westphalens” changed to “[Archiv für Geschichte Westphalens]”.