The original spelling has not been modified, with the exception that the
capitalisation of Midlands has been made consistent.
Punctuation is largely reproduced as in the original. End-of-line
hyphens have been removed to rejoin words as appropriate, but other
hyphenation is as in the original. Punctuation has been added silently
is a small number of places where it is obviously missing as a result of
a typesetting or printing error.
The references to EETS. are to the Early English Text Society
publications.
While it is not stated in this book, it is inferred that it follows the
practice of the Oxford English Dictionary in which:
* indicates a word or form not actually found, but of which the
existence is inferred,
† signifies an obsolete word,
[...] in a quotation, it surrounds an editorial insertion,
[...] while around an entire quotation, it indicates a quotation is
relevant to the development of a sense but not directly illustrative of
it.
. . . obtained from the OED web site.
[End of _A Glossary of Stuart and Tudor Words_, by Walter William Skeat,
edited by Anthony Lawson Mayhew]