Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, death-bed, deathbed; Snow Image, Snow-Image; skilful; unexcelled; unreligious; unmoral; enigmatical.
[Pg 8], 'Knights Templars' replaced by 'Knights Templar'.
[Pg 24], 'inelegancies' replaced by 'inelegances'.
[Pg 48], 'sublety' replaced by 'subtlety'.
[Pg 54k], 'Dies Irae' replaced by 'Dies Iræ' for consistency.
[Pg 135], '428-31' replaced by '428-431' for consistency.
[Pg 147], 'impracticability' replaced by 'impracticality'.