General : Errata listed have been applied to the text.

General : Page headers have been interpreted as sidenotes.

General : Changes to punctuation have not been individually documented.

General : No attempt made to standardise chief justice/chief-justice as both forms used approximately equally.

Pages 41, 295, 323, 345 : slave-trade standardised to slave trade.

Page 45 : hardworking standardised to hard-working.

Page 77 : "A little army under Major Adams," as in original.

Page 96 : ring-leader standardised to ringleader.

Page 101 : wide-spread standardised to widespread.

Page 114 : counter-balanced standardised to counterbalanced.

Page 127 : unpremediated changed to unpremeditated.

Page 140 : war-like standardised to warlike.

Page 154 : smallpox standardised to small-pox.

Pages 157, 364, 365 : Flag-ship standardised to flagship.

Page 166 : gun-boats standardised to gunboats.

Page 194 : outmanoeuvred standardised to out-manoeuvred.

Page 243 : log-wood standardised to logwood.

Page 248 : AfghÁn standardised to Afghan.

Page 376 : Sombrueil standardised to Sombreuil.

Pages 377, 491 : PonthiÈvre standardised to PenthiÈvre.

Page 384 : Befal corrected to befall.

Page 417 : Sentence "Her assailants poured so fierce a storm of shot upon her that her crew could not get the fire under." as in original. Probably missing final word control.

Page 471 : Application of errata here has meant that the office of secretary of state for the northern department was not listed May-September 1763. This may or may not be correct.

Page 473 : Lt.-lieut. corrected to Ld.-lieut.

Page 477 : Asuf-ud-DaulÁ standardised to Asaf-ud-DaulÁ.

Page 481 : Drapier corrected to Draper.

Page 484 : Index entry for Admiral Thomas Graves corrected from 216 to 226.

Page 487 : Kempenfeldt moved to correct place in index.

Page 490 : Patna standardised to PatnÁ.

Page 492 : Salbai standardised to SalbÁi.

Page 494 : Sultan standardised to SultÁn.

Page 495 : Whateley standardised to Whately.