Duplicate words were removed. Obvious printing errors, such as upside down, backwards, or missing letters, and letters in the wrong order, were corrected. Spaces were added or removed between words, as appropriate. Quotation marks and parentheses were adjusted to standard usage. Missing stops were added to abbreviations and ends of sentences. Missing commas were added between items in lists. Commas were changed to stops at ends of sentences.
Footnotes were numbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the section in which they occurred. Anchors for footnotes 69, 85, 192, 364, 479, 482, 489 are missing in the original; for 69, 85, 364, 482, 489, anchors were added where they likely belong. Location for anchor 192 could not be determined. There are two anchors to footnotes 117, 138, and 232. Tables within footnotes 251 and 253 were aligned to display better in e-publications.
Noted, not changed:
- The word “ibid” occasionally is not in italics.
- For consistency, paragraph number V., should be 5., page [clxiv]
- The word “sir” is occasionally lower case as a title.
- Dots were used instead of ditto marks in footnote [499].
- Page cite in footnote [105] should be 134, not 190, as printed.
- Page cite in footnote [460] should be 246, not 236, as printed. Link to correct citation provided.
Changes:
- Removed extraneous comma between “latter formed” on page [lii].
- Changed semicolon to full stop after “East India Company,” page [clxxxix].
- Changed colon to semicolon after the word “completed,” page [20].
- Changed colon to semicolon in the series of phrases in the quotation on page [150].
- Changed stop to to colon, third paragraph, [196].