The printed book used an unusual system of page numbering. The recto (right) side of each leaf was numbered in sequence; in addition, the first five pages of each sixteen-page signature were numbered as Ai, Aii... Both are shown in the left margin. The verso pages are shown in this e-text by lines ||.

The spellings “poeple”, “lenghth”, “satisficed” are standard; “pix” may be more recognizable as “pyx”. The text normally used “v” initially, “u” later in the word. The sidenotes used “vv” where the body text used “w”.

Some vowels were written with an overline—here shown as a tilde—representing a following nasal (m or n). Although some combinations were more popular than others, there were no absolute rules; it seems to have been done primarily to make lines come out even. The overline never occurs in a partial line, as at paragraph-end.

[Pg. 45] the corrupt blindnes of the vnbeleauers

Some sections of the text were almost illegible and had to be reconstructed by fitting letterforms into the surving printed areas.

[Pg. 9.v] our naturall and [birthe] syn

Much of page 12 (recto) was difficult to make out. Sections of the top and bottom are shown here. The word “allow” fits the visible text, but is spelled “allowe” on all other occurrences.