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

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced; some are noted in further detail below.

Page 71: “In the year 750 [it should be 751]” is in the original book; it is not a note from the Transcribers of this eBook.

Page 93: Missing ending quotation mark for text beginning with “The great distinction”. Transcriber added one after “sometimes assume.”

Page 115: “of so noble” was printed as “of so no noble”; changed here.

Page 202: “(791–842)” was printed as “(791–482)”; changed here.

Page 206: Unbalanced quotation mark in the paragraph beginning “He says:”

Page 269: “pre-eminence over them” was printed as “pre-eminence ever them”; changed here.

Page 329: “he gave the Teutonic race” was printed as “the gave te Teutonic race”; corrected by Transcriber.

Page 332: “Pippin of Landin” was printed as “Pippin of Landiu”; changed here, although modern conventional spelling is “Landen”.

The Genealogy charts in the Appendices are presented here as images and as text. Some eReaders will mis-align words and connecting lines in the text versions of those charts.