TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
All changes listed above in the Errata have been applied to the etext.
—the change listed for page 18 line 3, changing “t? ???sa” to “t? ????a”, has also been applied to the three other occurrences in the text.
—the change listed for page 20 line 17, changing “Excisium” to “Excisum”, has also been applied to the three other occurrences in the text.
—the change listed for page 67 line 29, changing “d’ Esens” to “d’ Escu” has been modified to change to “d’ Ecus”. This change has also been applied to the four other occurrences in the text. (Quart d’ Ecu was a French coin of this period.)
—the preposition “than” in modern English is consistently written as “then” in the original text, and has not been changed.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all spellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Preface: ‘acceptance ofall’ replaced by ‘acceptance of all’.
Pg 2: ‘Schools and Universitities,’ replaced by ‘Schools and Universities,’.
Pg 4: ‘that enrease Wars,’ replaced by ‘that encrease Wars,’.
Pg 5: ‘Armies are fasly’ replaced by ‘Armies are falsely’.
Pg 14: ‘have slighty gone’ replaced by ‘have slightly gone’.
Pg 15: ‘mangnificent Shews’ replaced by ‘magnificent Shews’.
Pg 18: ‘superflous, no more’ replaced by ‘superfluous, no more’.
Pg 19: ‘Impisonments, according to’ replaced by ‘Imprisonments, according to’.
Pg 26: ‘infinity of unites’ replaced by ‘infinity of unities’.
Pg 37: ‘the said Duies,’ replaced by ‘the said Duties,’.
Pg 40: ‘Intrest and of the’ replaced by ‘Interest and advantage of the’.
Pg 41: ‘resisting of ture’ replaced by ‘resisting of Nature’.
Pg 41: ‘Merchant nor Statseman’ replaced by ‘Merchant nor Statesman’.
Pg 43: ‘all mankiude alike;’ replaced by ‘all mankinde alike;’.
Pg 45: ‘not, bebeing rather’ replaced by ‘not, being rather’.
Pg 50: ‘parts to discoveers’ replaced by ‘parts to discoverers’.
Pg 51: ‘such a freedon’ replaced by ‘such a freedom’.
Pg 55: ‘have not throughly’ replaced by ‘have not thoroughly’.
Pg 57: ‘are thererore Taxes’ replaced by ‘are therefore Taxes’.
Pg 58: ‘for the Uniparons’ replaced by ‘for the Uniparous’.
Pg 65: ‘it hath hapned,’ replaced by ‘it hath happened,’.
Pg 68: ‘sell them on on a’ replaced by ‘sell them on a’.
Pg 71: ‘but acccording to’ replaced by ‘but according’ to.
Pg 75: ‘Seondly, This Tax’ replaced by ‘Secondly, This Tax’.
Errata: the changes noted for page 32 lines 10 and 11 do not make sense; a “conjectured emendation”, as given in some other reprints of this book, has been used instead; namely, ‘after [this] interline [former]’ and ‘after [Land,] read [the latter] instead of [that]’.