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_. 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. Carats
were used to indicate superscripts in the inscription in the
chapter on St. Ewe.
Footnotes were numbered in order and moved to the end of the chapter
in which the related anchors occur. The anchor for Footnote [17] was
missing in the original; it was added where it likely should have
been. There are two anchors to Footnote [39].
The Geology section of St. Colomb Major was printed twice including
the population section of the preceding table. At the end of the
second geology section were two paragraphs about Castle-An-Dinas that
do not discuss geology. The three duplicated geology paragraphs were
deleted and the two paragraphs about the castle were moved to precede
the table of parish property values.
Noted, not changed:
――In the section for St. Anthony in Powder, St. Augustine rules of
order omits item number 4.
――Total population of Bodmin in 1811 does not equal the sum of items
in the table.
――In the section of St. Clement’s, the year 1016 should likely be 1066.
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:
―― Penconnow (Pencarrow)
―― Foow (Foote)
―― Pennemer (Pennance)
―― sine (sive)
The Index appears only at the end of Volume 4. It was added to this volume
as a convenience to readers. Page numbers for Index items occasionally are missing in
the original.