Simple typographical errors were silently corrected, except as noted below.

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

Many names were spelled in more than one way; in most cases, all variants have been retained here.

The spelling of non-English words was not checked.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

The page headers of the original book contained a timeline. It is represented in this eBook by sidenotes, beginning with “[A.D. year]”, placed between paragraphs nearby their originally-printed positions, and shaded in some versions of this eBook. Redundant headers have been omitted, some of the dates are not in sequence, and some headers were not printed near the topics to which they refer.

All but three of the chapter headings used the abbreviation “CHAP.”, so the three that were spelled out have been changed to abbreviations.

The Index entries were not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references, but all of the “U” entries have been moved to precede the “V” entries rather than to follow them.

In the Index, inconsistent usage of periods and semi-colons at the ends of main and sub-entries has not been changed; occasional mis-capitalization following such punctuation has not been changed; spellings that differ from the ones on the referenced pages have not been changed.

Unbalanced quotation marks in footnotes citing Hardy have been remedied.

Page 19: “unluckly” was printed that way.

Page 196: Shows “1017–1031” as the years of Canute’s reign, and also says he “reigned twenty years”.

Page 232: “to his day” appears to be a typographical error for “to this day”.

Page 256: Text uses “Standford Brigge” and “Stanford-bridge”; Index uses “Standford Bridge” to refer to this page. All retained here.

Page 462: The opening quotation mark before “A.D. 1112, the fifth of the indiction,” has no obvious matching closing mark.

Page 496: “none before, appropriating” was changed here from “none before, appropropriating”, which appears to be a typesetting error.