TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter. Four digit items such as [1466] are not footnote anchors but refer to a year.
Macrons over e and u are displayed correctly as ē and ū. Some latin abbreviations are shown in the original text with an overline, for example Hiberniæ when abbreviated is displayed in the etext as Hibniæ, similarly to the original text.
Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ¼ ¾; there are no other fractions in this book.
Date ranges are displayed using – for example 1621–8, the same as the original text.
Split-year dates are displayed similarly to the original text, for example 160 0 1 . The dual dates indicate the Julian (1600) and the Gregorian (1601) year designation for dates between January 1st and March 25th. Prior to 1752 dates in documents in British dominions used the Julian calendar, in which the new year did not begin until March 25th.
On a handheld device the tables on [pages 288] and 289 are best displayed using a small font to avoid truncation of the columns.
Some other minor changes to the text are noted at the [end of the book.]
