Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Both “watermark” and “water-mark” occur frequently.

Text uses “Pittsburg”, not “Pittsburgh”.

Page 27: “Henry VI” was mis-printed as “Henry VII”; corrected here.