capitalisation, and hyphenation have been left unchanged except where
noted below. Other minor typographical errors have been corrected
without note.
Page xxviii – “or” changed to “of” (a contemporary of)
Page 93 – “nay” changed to “any” (scarce any account of her)
Page 126 – “may” changed to “many” (how many stages)
Page 138 – “Fontainbleau” changed to “Fontainebleau”
(at Fontainebleau)
Page 259 – “Randam” changed to “Randan” (Madame de Randan)
Page 290 – “Cnæus” changed to “Gnæus” (Gnæus Pompeius)
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The numbered references to endnotes on the pages of the book are
incorrect in most cases. Many other pages of the book should have
had references to endnotes but those references are missing.
In order to reindex the references in this transcription, a temporary
‘placeholder’ reference was added to those pages where there should
have been at least one numbered reference to endnotes but it was
omitted in the book.
The transcriber has retained these placeholder references as they are
helpful to the reader. Placeholder references are distinguished by an
asterisk next to the index number (as in [99*], for example). Their
role is exactly the same as that of the references originally present
in the book; namely to direct the reader to the correct page header in
the endnotes. Under that page header will be found all the author’s
notes relevant to the page.
Where originally there were more than one numbered reference to
endnotes on a page of the book, these now have the same index number
in this transcription. That index number links to the respective page
header in the endnotes.
Endnotes have been reformatted so that each separate note is
distinguished by a prefixing ◆ character.