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: “propriâ 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.
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