Transcriber's Note:
- Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. See below for other errors.
- Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
- Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
- Footnotes were moved to the end of the book before the index and numbered in one continuous sequence.
- Alphabetical sorting errors in the Index were corrected.
- Corrections:
- P. xxxix: Tregetor → Tregetour "... magicians and tregetours...."
- P. xlii: Corinens → Corineus "... the one named Corineus, and the other Gog-magog....
- P. 206: Juggeling → Juggling "... his performances were denominated juggling castes."
- P. 349: eason → season "... late years at this season for 'the young people...'."
- P. 360: brenyng → bernyng "... the styncke of bernyng bonys."
- Variants unchanged:
- Taylor and Tailor.
- Whitson-tide, Whitsontyde, Whitsuntide.
- Other notes:
- P. 119, footnote 465, and p. 369 footnote 1076: The citations could not be documented and were left incomplete.
- P. 128, footnote 479, and p. 269, footnote 830. The anchors for these footnotes were missing and their placement by the transcriber could not be verified.
- p. 151: "In the succeeding reign, 10 Henry IV., A.D. 1409,.... The meaning of the number 10 could not be ascertained and it was removed.
- p. 280: The reference to footnote 1 at the end of the poem was removed as the footnote could not be found.
- p. 385: The words "In a manuscript at the Museum ..." and "... is perfectly genuine;" were followed by the same footnote number. Only the second occurence was retained.