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

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

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 36: “propri motu” appears to be a misprint for “proprio motu”.

Page 66: Transcriber added “from” in the phrase “was expelled from the”.

Page 107: “by that which” was misprinted as “by the which”; changed here.

Page 121: “with another £220,000” was misprinted as “with other £220,000”; changed here.