This book was written in a period when many words and names had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged, as were misspelled words, incorrect use of homonyms, and sentences without verbs. The book used hyphens, dots, and spaces of various lengths to indicate unknown names, dates or words. For consistency, these were changed to long dashes: ——. Insular letters were replaced with contemporary equivalents. In Appendix XI, abbreviations are sometimes indicated with a macron or tilde above or through one or more letters. These are shown within brackets, e.g. [=m] and [~co].
Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed letters, were corrected. Unprinted punctuation and final stops missing at the end of abbreviations and sentences were added. Duplicated words were removed, as were duplicate letters after rejoining words that were hyphenated at the end of a line. Excess spaces in abbreviations of titles, D.D. and M.D., were removed.
Footnotes were numbered sequentially and moved to the end of the section in which the anchors occur. Footnotes [139] and [335] are missing in the original; there are no anchors for footnotes [227], [230], and [337]. In Appendix XII, many footnotes have multiple anchors; each footnote is linked to the first anchor.
The following were added, changed, or noted:
- The inscription in Greek on page [37] may be missing a word at the end of the first line (Βαθύλλου); gamma was substituted for upside-down lambda in line 5.
- On page [193] in Appendix V, there is no subparagraph 3.
- On page [362], “1422” should read “1242”.
- Page numbers missing in [Appendix X] are also missing in the original of Tanner’s Notitia monastica.
- The list of errata at the end of the book appears only in Volume 1; it was added for the convenience of readers. Links are provided only to items in this volume.
Adjustments to the Index:
Changes:
- Angelo, St., —— descended fram to descended from.
- Page number for DULO parish, from i. 216 to i. 316.
- Initial I to S. —— Enys, John, ii. 93, 243. J. S.
- Moved entry for Exceter Brygge from “F” to alpha location in “E”.
- Spring 713 to spring 173, within entry for St. Hillary.
- Where a name was repeated in the index at the top of the next column, the name was changed to long dash for consistency with other entries.
- Removed indent before index entry: Phillipps, Rev. William and family ——
- Backwards and upside down 3 to a 2 for entry:
Wallingford castle, iii. 285.
Added:
- Page number (31) to geology for St. Anthony in Powder.
- Volume and page number for Fairs, custom of displaying a glove.
- Periods missing after volume numbers and abbreviations.
- Page number 349 to Nugent ———Lord 349.
- Under PHILLACK, parish, added unprinted characters 3 lines in a row,
right column:
- period after Mr. on first line,
- e of house on second line, and
- hyphen in word divided at end of third line.
- Comma to Bishop of, St. Hilary —— under Poictiers.
- Missing ‘o’ in ‘governor of Plymouth’ under entry for Trelawny.