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Transcriber’s notes:

In the text version, italics are represented by _underscores_, and bold and black letter text by =equals= symbols. Inconsistent hyphenation and spellings have been left as printed except as noted below. Small punctuation errors have been silently corrected.

Superscripts are represented by ^{} and subscripts by _{} [=a]represents a with a line above and [~p] represents p with a tilde above

In the majority of cases, spelling has been left as printed but a small number of errors which obscure the meaning for the reader have been corrected.

Both uncorrected and corrected spellings are noted below.

Some incorrect puntuation has been silently corrected

p14 acordance left as printed.
p70 betwen left as printed.
p165,166 The variable spellings of Bradshaw(e) have been left
as printed.
p170 The footnote on this page has no anchor, so it is assumed
that it refers to preceding paragraph.
p180 A very wide genealogie chart has been rewritten with keys
to fit in page width restrictions. The original may be seem
as an illustration.
The following notes relate to this.
Willm. The l's have crossbars
Humph. T H's have crossbars.
fftafford. ff represent long s's.
co-heires left as printed.
p196 Jahrhunderts (footnote 65)left as printed.
p258 -- added after Chesterfield section title.
p265 stall-ends changed to stall ends.
p330 blackmith (footnote 89) left as printed.
p373 continnue left as printed.
p374 everry left as printed.
p391 Secret Chambers and Hiding places, hyphenation removed to
match text.

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