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.
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 in order and moved to the end of the
chapter in which the related anchors occur. A footnote anchor in
The “Manor of Sheviock” was deleted after the text, “for this
manor was at this time his inheritance,” as there is no footnote
in the chapter.
Noted, not changed:
―― In the table for Maddern, the sum of value of Real Property and
the sum of 1801 population do not add to the totals provided.
―― Occasionally, the abbreviations for shillings or pence were omitted
from the text.
―― In the chapter of St. Neot, the transcription of the Sanctus Neotus
contained consonants with tildes above or through the letter.
These were transcribed with the tilde in brackets preceding
the letter, like this: [~b].
The book contains the following pen and ink changes made by an unknown
hand. The changes were not made to the text, but are indicated below
in parentheses:
―― … mentioned under St. Ewan (Erme) …
―― … Marperian (Marpesian) rock …
―― … to distress (disturb) a dying man …
―― … under the assumed name ―――― (of Peter) Pindar.…
―― … the son (in law) of his sister,…
―― … viro inter hæc menia (mœnia) semper memorando …
―― … probably to St. Enny (Euny) …
―― … this house (name) may indicate …
―― … The late vicar Mr. Sechell (Scotell) …
The following were changed:
―― Column headers were added to table for Sancreed.
―― The Greek word κελιδον was changed to χελιδων.
The list of errata at the end of the book appears only in Volume 1,
and the Index appears only in Volume 4. Both were added for the
convenience of readers.