Chapter XLII: Preface: To "an Abridgment of the Book of Common Prayer"82 (8)

p. v, Contents, page numbers have been right justified in a column.
p. 13, "some how" to "somehow" (was once somehow or other)
p. 21 "De foe" to "Defoe" (Defoe in his Cruso)
p. 206, replaced blank space with double emdash, (are under ----
Years of Age)
p. 410, "TitlePage" to "Title Page" (Lines in the Title Page)

7. p. 3, In "Selections from BENJAMIN FRANKLIN", moved note about the
"Notes" section from the bottom to the top of selection, above the
header, as it pertains to ALL remaining pages.

8. SPELLING CORRECTIONS: (not otherwise marked by editor)

p. xxxix, "strengthned" to "strengthened" (14) (strengthened by long
prescription)
p. ci, "transfererd" to "transferred" (1) (transferred from the Penn
Charter) (in Footnote i-327)
*p. 9, "Wharf" to "Wharff" (My proposal was to build a Wharff)
p. 16, "Shaftsbury" to "Shaftesbury" (33) (reading Shaftesbury and
Collins)
p. 67, "preceeding" to "preceding" (16) (a preceding Wife)
p. 184, "hear" to "here" (I have here described)
*p. 266, "harrassed" to "harassed" (past has harassed them)
*p. 369, "harrassed" to "harassed" (order them to be harassed)
p. 347, "exhilirates" to "exhilerates" (exhilerates me more)
p. 451, "Univers" to "Universe" (greatest in the Universe;)

*Correction made because word occurs correctly or alternately spelled
elsewhere in the SAME document.

9. WORD VARIATIONS: (found to be valid spellings in W. E. D.)

"abovementioned" (1) and "above-mentioned" (1)
"abridgment" (15) and "abridgement" (2)
"agreable" (11) and "agreeable" (26)
"ale-house" (1) and "alehouse" (1)
"Algernon Sidney" (1) and "Algernoon Sidney" (1)
"allege" (7) and "alledge" (2)
"Almanac" (10) and "Almanack" (38)
"antient" (15) and "ancient" (50)
"apetite" (1) and "appetite" (7)
"arithmetic" (9) and "arithmetick" (5)

"balance" (13) and "ballance" (5)
"beforementioned" (1) and "before-mentioned" (1)
"bias" (4) and "biass" (2)
"Boulogne" (2) and "Bouloigne" (1)
"boundlessly" (1) and "boundlesly" (1)
"Brientnal" (3) (in Autobiography), "Breintnal" (1) (in Introduction)
and "Breintnall" (3) (in footnotes)
"Broussonet" (1) and "Broussonnet" (1)
"burden" (7) and "burthen" (12)

"Cabin" (5) and "Cabbin" (2)
"Caesar" (1) and "Cesar" (1)
"characteris'd" (1) and "characterized" (1)
"chearfulness" (1) and "cheerfulness" (1)
"Chelsea" (2) and "Chelsey" (1)
"Chesnut Street" (1) and "Chestnut Street" (1)
"chuse" (8) and "choose" (7)
"Classics" (2) and "Classicks" (1)
"Clothes" (4) and "Cloaths" (4)
"Coffee House" (2) and "Coffee-house" (2)
"compleat" (10) and "complete" (11)
"control" (3) and "controul" (4)
"courthouse" (1) and "court-house" (1)
"croud" (3) and "crowd" (12)
"Curiositee" (1) and "Curiosity" (8)
"Customhouse" (1) and "Custom-house" (1)

"d'Alibard" (2) and "Dalibared" (2)
"dependence" (5) and "dependance" (6)
"disagreable" (3) and "disagreeable" (5)
"drove" (3) and "drave" (1)

"Edinborough" (1) and "Edinburgh" (9)
"Eliptic" (1) and "Eliptick" (1)
"Encyclopædia" (4) and "Encyclopedia" (2)
"Encyclopædists" (2) and "Encyclopedists" (1)
"enlightened" (2) and "enlightned" (2)
"enter" (7) and "entre" (5)
"entitled" (8) and "entituled" (Old Fr. Sp.) (2)
"expel" (1) and "expell" (1)
"Expence" (22) and "Expense" (3)
"extreme" (21) and "extream" (26)

"Falsehood" (2) and "Falshood" (4)
"Favor" (1) and "Favour" (26)
"fixt" (3) and "fixed" (14)
"Folger" (1) and "Folgier" (1) (Peter ----)
"foretell" (1) and "fortel" (1)
"Free-will" (1) and "Free-Will" (1)
"froze" (2) and "Frose" (1)

"Good-Will" (1), "Good-will" (3), and "Goodwill" (1)
"Governor" (47) and "Governour" (1)
"Grub-Street" (1) and "Grub-street" (1)

"Hawksworth" (1) and "Hawkesworth" (4)
"hainous" (1) and "heinous" (1)
"height" (6), "heigth" (1), and "heighth" (1)
"hindered" (2) and "hindred" (1)
"home-spun" (1) and "homespun" (1)
"Humor" (1) and "Humour" (5)

"Ill-will" (2) and "Ill-Will" (1)
"Increase" (114) and "Encrease" (8)
"indiscrete" (1) and "indiscreet" (3)
"intolerable" (2) and "intollerable" (1)

"Jealousy" (3) and "Jealousie" (1)
"Job" (12) and "Jobb" (4) (as in work)
"Joli" (1) and "Joly" (3) (Moulin ----)
"Journey-man" (1),"Journeyman('s)" (3) and JourneyMen (1)

"Knicknacks" (1) and "Nicknack" (1)

"Labors" (1) and "Labours" (5)
"land-holder" (1) and "Land-holder" (1)
"Latinè" (1) and "Latine" (1)
"laught" (3) and "laughed" (3)
"Linnaeus" (1) and "Linnæus" (2) (a Naturalist)
"Livlihood" (4) and "Livelyhood" (1)

"Mama" (1) and "Mamma" (1)
"mankind" (35) and "man-kind" (1) (in quoted material)
"Mathmatics" (4) and "Mathmaticks" (1)
"Mechanic" (7) and "Mechanick" (4)
"melancholy" (4) and "melancholly" (2)
"Merchandise" (1) and "Merchandize" (2)
"middle-ag'd" (1) and "middle-aged" (1)
"music" (7) and "musick" (4)

*"natural" (193) and "naturall" (1) (in Bacon Quote)
"Negro" (3) and "Negroe" (11)
"Neighbor" (1) and "Neighbour" (11)
"News-Paper" (2) and "NewsPapers" (1)
"News-writers" (1) and "Newswriters" (1)
"nonsense" (5) and "nonsence" (1)

*"obtain" (28) and "obteyn" (1) (in Mather quote)
"Offence" (14) and "Offense" (2)
"Optics" (1) and "Opticks" (1)

"partial" (7) and "partiall" (1)
"Penny-worth" (1) and "Pennyworth(s)" (1)
"Pennsylvania" (159) and "Pensilvania" (15) and "Pensylvania" (1)
"persuaded" (16) and "perswaded" (2)
"Physic" (1) and "Physick" (2)
"Polly" (9) and "Polley" (1) (---- Stevenson)
"Portrait" (9) and "Pourtrait" (1)
"possest" (1) and "possessed" (10)
"printing-house" (2), "Printing-house" (2), "Printing-House" (7) and
"Printinghouse" (2)
"Priviledge" (1) and "Privilege" (3)
"Public" (22) and "Publick" (43)
*"Puffendorf" (3) and "Puffendorff" (1)

"rejoicing" (5) and "rejoycing" (1)
"rendered" (7) and "rendred" (1)
"rendering" (3) and "rendring" (1)
"Rhetoric" (6) and "Rhetorick" (1)
"rhime" (3) and "rhyme" (3)
"Rhode Island" (4) and "Rhodeisland" (3)
"Ribands" (1) and "Ribbands" (4)
"Rochefoucauld" (2), "Rochefoucault" (1) and "Larochefoucault" (1)
"role" (5) and rôle (2)
"rouse" (1) and "rouze" (1)

"satirize" (1) and "satyrize" (1)
"Scolar" (7) and "Scollar" (1)
"seacoasts" (1) and "sea-coasts" (1)
"Silinc" (1) and "Silence" (4) (---- Dogood)
"smoke" (3) and "smoak" (2)
"soured" (1) and "sowred" (1)
"staied" (2) and "stayed" (2)
"straight" (4) and "strait" (8)
"subtle" (1) and "subtile" (1)
"sunset" (1) and "sun-set" (1)
"surprise" (11) and "surprize" (16)
"Surveyor-General" (1) and "Surveyor General" (2)
"Susquehannah" (1), "Susquehanah" (1) and "Sasquehannah" (1)

"threatened" (5) and "threatned" (1)
"tiger" (1) and "tyger" (1)
"to-day" (6) (in text) and "today" (5)
"topic" (2) and "topick" (1)

"Une loge" (1) and "Un loge" (1)

"virtuous" (19) and "vertuous" (1)

"Watergruel" (1) and "Water-gruel" (1)
"wellmeaning (1) and "well-meaning" (1)
"wondered" (4) and "wondred" (1)
"Wool" (3) and "Wooll" (4)

(* found within directly quoted material)

10. Several instances of mixed case words appear in the text as follows:
footPath, JourneyMen, mySelf, thySelf, etc., and have been retained.

11. Words spelled with a macron (straight line) over the "O", in the
original text: OIA. (OIA VANITAS)

Words with an [OE] or [oe] ligature in the original text, which are
represented in the e-text as "OE" and "oe": OEuvres, OEconomy,
OEconomists, Soeurs, Moestus, Croesus, and Foetus.

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