Transcriber’s Notes
The cover was created by adding text to a plain background and is placed in the public domain.
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and spelling remain unchanged except where in conflict with the index.
The ancient documents reproduced, particularly in Appendix IX, contain abbreviations represented by symbols no longer in use. These have been represented by the tilde˜ .
Lower case Latin numbers surmounted by xx (a score) are shown thus iiij ∕ xx.
The two genealogical trees in volume 3 chapter 19 have been supplemented with genealogical tables prepared by the transcriber.
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