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Transcriber's note:
This e-text comes in two forms: Unicode (UTF-8) and Latin-1.
Use the one that works best on your text reader.
--If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes
and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the
UTF-8 version (better). If any part of this paragraph
displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s
“character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work,
proceed to:
--In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but French
words like “étude” have accents and “æ” is a single
letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight
(“typewriter” form).
The Gairdner edition of the Paston Letters was printed in six
volumes. Each volume is a separate e-text; Volume VI is further
divided into two e-texts, Letters and Index. Volume I, the
General Introduction, will be released after all other volumes,
matching the original publication order.
Except for footnotes and sidenotes, all brackets are in the
original, as are parenthetical question marks and (_sic_)
notations. Series of dots representing damaged text are as in
the printed original.
The year was shown in a sidenote at the top of each page; this
has been merged with the sidenote at the beginning of each
Letter or Abstract.
A carat character is used to denote superscription. The
character(s) following the carat is superscripted (example:
xxviii^me). Braces { } are used only when the superscripted
text is immediately followed by non-superscripted letters
or period (full stop). Errata and other transcriber’s notes
are shown in [[double brackets]]. The notation “corrected by
editor” refers to the Errata printed in Volume VI.
Footnotes have their original numbering, with added page
number to make them usable with the full Index. They are
grouped at the end of each Letter or Abstract.
Typographical errors are listed at the end of each Letter,
after the footnotes. In the primary text, errors were only
corrected if they are clearly editorial, such as missing
italics, or mechanical, such as u-for-n misprints. Italic “d”
misprinted as “a” was a recurring problem. The word “invisible”
means that there is an appropriately sized blank space, but the
letter or punctuation mark itself is missing. The spelling
“Jhon” is not an error. Gresham and Tresham are different
people.
Note that the printed book used z to represent original yogh
ȝ. This has not been changed for the e-text.]
This edition, published by arrangement with Messrs. ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE
AND COMPANY, LIMITED, is strictly limited to 650 copies for Great
Britain and America, of which only 600 sets are for sale, and are
numbered 1 to 600.
No. 44.
[[The number 44 is handwritten.]]
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THE PASTON LETTERS