Obvious punctuation errors and omissions have been silently corrected, while those requiring interpretation have been left open.
The following misprints have been corrected:
- “philosphical” changed to “philosophical” ([page viii])
- “engineeers” changed to “engineers” ([page ix])
- “For willsof husbandmen" corrected to “For wills of husbandmen" ([note 2])
- “he” corrected to “the” ([page 3])
- the closing parenthesis was added to "(19.04%)" in Table I ([page 25])
- “Christain" corrected to “Christian” ([note 94])
- Footnote [145] had no anchor in the text; placement is based on context ([page 69])
- A spurious “)” was removed following “No 324" in note 169 ([page 81])
- an unclear fraction was rendered as "6-1/8" ([page 107])
- “writtings" corrected to “writings” ([page 114])
- “Wordonand Bilton” changed to “Wordon and Bilton" ([Note 298])
- “Asslegge” was changed to “Asselegge” ([page 181])
- “Harrington’s The Art of Lawgiving" was corrected to “Harrington’s The Art of Law-giving" (page 191, [note 346])
- Footnote 399 had no entry in the text, its placement is speculative, based on the context ([page 211]page 211)
- “arbitarily” was corrected to “arbitrarily” ([page 248])
- “clases” was changed to “classes” ([page 282])
- “ntromittere” was corrected to “intromittere” ([note 511]) (page 292)
- “beantiful” was corrected to “beautiful” ([page 327])
- “protecting the clsss” was corrected to “protecting the class" ([page 340])
- “impoverishing the fines fighting material" was corrected to “impoverishing the finest fighting material" ([page 343])
- Footnote [670] had no entry in the text, its placement is speculative, based on context. ([page 371])
- “wasloste” was corrected to “was loste" ([page 411])
- “commonweath” was changed to “commonweal” ([page 461])
- The page reference for the Earl of Leicester of “502” was corrected to “302” ([page 461])
Hyphenation is sometimes inconsistent in the text. These inconsistencies have been retained:
- bye-laws/byelaws
- re-action/reaction
- reallotment/re-allotment
- sub-let/sublet
- land-holding/landholding
- over-stocking/overstocking
- sub-tenants/subtenants
- corn-fields/cornfields
- sub-letting /subletting
- foodstuffs/food-stuffs
- lease-holders/leaseholders
- countryside/country-side
- re-adjustment/readjustment
- sub-divided/subdivided
- re-arranged/rearranged
- re-arrangement/rearrangement
- over-estimated/overestimated
If the discrepancies is between the text and the indexes, the indexes have been corrected to match the text.
- “rackrenting” was changed to “rack-renting”
- “foldcourses" was changed to “fold-courses”