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art included with this ebook is granted to the public domain.
The spelling and diacriticals used in non-English words and phrases has
not been modernised or corrected.
This book as printed included multiple complex footnotes, including
footnotes to footnotes. All notes have been converted to endnotes for
this ebook edition. The following changes and corrections have been
made:
• p. 7: Added period after phrase “the recorded absenteeism of two
thousand years.”
• p. 19: Replaced “kings” with “king’s” in phrase “Lady Elizabeth Grey,
the king’s own kinswoman.”
• p. 20: Replaced opening with closing quotation mark after phrase
“having curried acquaintance and friendship with mere Irish.”
• p. 23: Replaced “of of” with “of” in phrase “England, in the face of
her own savage laws.”
• p. 27: Added period after phrase “for the Earl of Kildare to feare.”
• p. 28: Replaced apparent mid-dot with period after phrase “that you
tracke them out at pleasure.”
• p. 35: Added opening double quotation mark to indicate continuation
of quotation before paragraph beginning “One night, when the
lieutenant and he, for disport, were playing at _slide-groat_.”
• p. 35: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “there is
some mad game in that scralle, but, fall how it will, this throw is
for a huddle.”
• p. 45: Added closing double quotation mark after phrase “gossipry and
alliance.”
• p. 45 note 16: Replaced “to to” with “to” in phrase “and granted to
those on whose counsel they had surrendered.”
• p. 103 note 53: Added period after phrase “the fair dames of Ireland
learned to expire at an opera.”
• p. 133: Replaced closing single quotation mark with closing double
quotation mark after phrase “the English interest.”
• Booklist item 14: Added commas after “Joseph II.” and “Gustavus III.”
in list.