Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book. Simple typographical errors were corrected and some unbalanced quotation marks were remedied. Other errors of these types were not changed because the corrections were not obvious to the Transcriber.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have been changed only when there was a predominant preference throughout the book.

The source book used many Sidenotes, printed in italics. Most match entries in the Table of Contents, but some are either dates or citations. To preserve proximity with the original text, if they were printed mid-paragraph, that is where they appear here. Depending on the format in which you are reading this eBook, Sidenotes may be distinguished from regular text by being shown in some combination of italics, boldface, UPPER-CASE, enclosed in ?DIAMOND SYMBOLS?, being offset into the left-margin, or in a rectangular area within the regular text. Due to limitations of some eReaders, some sidenotes may appear next to or below each other, depending on the width of the screen.

The original Table of Contents used “ib.” when the page number was the same as the one in the previous entry. This eBook uses the actual page numbers.

The years in which events occurred were printed in the running heads. In this eBook, the first occurrence of each new year has been added to the Sidenotes by the Transcriber. Sidenote dates also have been added at the beginning of each chapter. This does not form an unbroken timeline, as the years in the running heads sometimes went back and forth.

The spelling and accent marks of non-English words were not checked or changed.

Page 4: “beat his breast” was printed as “beast”; changed here.

Page 45: no ending quotation mark for text beginning with “or to prevent an insurrection.”

Page 172: “route of fugitives” was printed as “rout” in an earlier edition of this book.