Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Spelling of non-English and old-English words not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Text sometimes spells “Althorp” as “Althorpe”; both have been retained here.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references, except for reference to page 385, which has been corrected to 358.
Page [254]: Letters with overbars (such as ū) indicate contractions.
Page [254]: “(to the issu” has no matching closing parenthesis.
Page [270]: “Six purse hangers of siver and gilt” was printed that way.
Page [327]: “Prince Arthur, younger brother of Henry VIII” is incorrect: Arthur was the older brother.