Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Archaic spellings have not been changed; the spelling of non-English words has not been 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.

Pages with Plate-illustrations included printer’s information regarding the pages the plates should face. That information has been removed in this eBook, as those illustrations are positioned as close as possible to those pages.

The spelling and grammar of French text has been reproduced here as it was printed in the original book.

The publication information of a few citations was italicized, but as that is not the style in most of the book, those words and dates are shown here unitalicized.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected and placed just before the Index of this eBook.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 5: “tunnage” was printed that way and is in the Index, but the other pages to which the Index entry refers spell the word as “tonnage”.

Page 23: “remonstance” was printed that way.

Page 47: “to their rates, And” was printed that way.

Page 72: “the King’s feedmen” was printed that way, probably should be “freedmen”.

Illustration on page 86: The original illustration was damaged. In the original book, it was on page 87.

Page 265: “Give her the stem” was printed that way.