[132] History of Machine-wrought Hosiery, by W. Felkin, p. 88.

[133] Lord Howe was not created an English peer until after this date.

Transcriber’s notes:

In the text version, italics are represented by _underscores_, and bold and black letter text by =equals= symbols.

inconsistent hyphenation and spellings have been left as printed except as noted below.
Small punctuation errors have been silently corrected.

superscripts are represented by ^{} and subscripts by _{}
[=a]represents a with a line above
and [~p] represents p with a tilde above

In the majority of cases, spelling has been left as printed but a small number of errors which obscure the meaning for the reader have been corrected. Both uncorrected and corrected spellings are noted below.

Some incorrect puntuation has been silently corrected

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p14acordance left as printed.
p70betwen left as printed.
p165,166The variable spellings of Bradshaw(e) have been left as printed.
p170The footnote on this page has no anchor, so it is assumed that it refers to preceding paragraph.
p180A very wide genealogie chart has been rewritten with keys to fit in page width restrictions. The original may be seem as an illustration.
The following notes relate to this.
Willm. The l's have crossbars
Humph. T H's have crossbars.
fftafford. ff represent long s's.
co-heires left as printed.
p196Jahrhunderts (footnote 65)left as printed.
p258-- added after Chesterfield section title.
p265stall-ends changed to stall ends.
p330blackmith (footnote 89) left as printed.
p373continnue left as printed.
p374everry left as printed.
p391Secret Chambers and Hiding places, hyphenation removed to match text.