Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they 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.

Index often used semi-colons between page number references. They have been replaced by commas in this eBook. Semi-colons between sub-entries have been retained.

Frontispiece: The original caption attributes the painting to “Lucas ? Heere” where the “?” represents an indistinct letter. It should be “de”, and that is what is used in this eBook.

The illustrations on the Title Page are just very small decorations.

Page 13: The chapter number was misprinted as “I”; changed here to “II”.

Page 29: “to my cousin, Jane Gray,” was printed with the surname spelled that way.

Page 35: Closing quotation mark added after “and served.”