Transcriber’s Note:
This book was written in a period when many words and names had not
become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple
spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These
have been left unchanged. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings
were left unchanged, as were misspelled words, incorrect use of
homonyms, and sentences without verbs. Words and phrases in italics
are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Superscripted characters
are preceded by a carat, e.g. Gen^l. The book used hyphens, dots, and
spaces of various lengths to indicate unknown names, dates or words.
For consistency, these were changed to four dashes: ――――. Insular
letters were replaced with contemporary equivalents. In Appendix XI,
abbreviations are sometimes indicated with a macron or tilde above or
through one or more letters. These are shown within brackets, e.g.
[=m] and [~co].
Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or
partially printed letters, were corrected. Unprinted punctuation and
final stops missing at the end of abbreviations and sentences were
added. Duplicated words were removed, as were duplicate letters after
rejoining words that were hyphenated at the end of a line. Excess spaces
in abbreviations of titles, D.D. and M.D., were removed.
Footnotes were numbered sequentially and moved to the end of the
section in which the anchors occur. Footnotes [139] and [335] are
missing in the original; there are no anchors for footnotes [227],
[230], and [337]. In Appendix XII, many footnotes have multiple
anchors.
Noted, not changed:
-- The inscription in Greek on page 37 may be missing a word at the
end of the first line (Βαθύλλου); gamma was substituted for
upside-down lambda in line 5.
-- On page 193 in Appendix V, there is no subparagraph 3.
-- Page numbers missing in Appendix X are also missing in the original
of Tanner’s Notitia monastica.
-- “1422” should read “1242” “…in anno 1422, (26 Hen. III.)…”
The list of errata at the end of the book appears only in Volume 1; it
was added for the convenience of readers.
Adjustments to the Index:
Changes:
Angelo, St., ... descended fram to descended from.
page number for DULO parish, from i. 216 to i. 316.
initial I to S. ... Enys, John, ii. 93, 243. J. S.
moved entry for Exceter Brygge from “F” to alpha location in “E”.
change spring 713 to spring 173, within entry for St. Hillary.
Where a name was repeated in the index at the top of the next
column, name was changed to ――― for consistency with other entries.
Removed ――― indent before entry: Phillipps, Rev. William and family...
backwards and upside down 3 to a 2 for entry:
Wallingford castle, iii. 285.
Added:
page number (31) to geology for St. Anthony in Powder.
volume and page number for Fairs, custom of displaying a glove.
periods missing after volume numbers and abbreviations.
page number 349 to Nugent...―Lord 349.
corrected 3 lines in a row, right column, Phillack parish,
unprinted: period after Mr. on first line, e of house on second line
and hyphen in word divided at end of third line.
added comma to Bishop of, St. Hilary... under Poictiers.
missing ‘o’ in ‘governor of Plymouth’ under entry for Trelawny.
Comment:
Page numbers for index items are occasionally missing in the original.