TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Original printed spelling and grammar are retained, with a few exceptions noted below. Many illustrations have been moved from their original locations to nearby places between paragraphs. Footnotes have been renumbered 1–479, and changed to endnotes. The transcriber created the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain.
Ditto marks or the word "ditto" were used extensively in the List of Illustrations, in Appendix B, and in the Bibliography. The original intended scope of these marks is often questionable, and would be even more so if they were to be retained in an ebook. Therefore, dittos are replaced with repeated text. Likewise, large curly brackets “{” meant to show grouping of text on multiple lines have been eliminated, either with repeated text or by including a left-border on a table-cell. The icon ♦ links to one of these: Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, or List of Plates. [♦]
The original printed index employed white space at the beginning of a line to indicate distinct subtopics under a topic heading; for instance subtopics St. Chad, St. George, and St. Giles, under heading [Shrewsbury]. In this edition, em dashes have been substituted for the initial spaces. The original index already employed em dashes to indicate repetition of a first word in several distinct topics. For instance, topics [“Hugh, St.], — Foliot, — Garth, — D’Orivalle, and — Pudsey”. These em dashes have been retained.
Page [154]. Removed unmatched double quotation mark from the end of the first paragraph.
Page [168]. Added right double quotation mark to the phrase ‘who for a time “ate nothing that had suffered death’.
Page [236]. There is a glyph in the word "devo
on" that has no unicode point. Herein, this latin letter c with tilde is shown as an image.