Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
at the Edinburgh University Press
Transcriber’s Notes:
Marginal notes are used for multiple purposes in this edition, and somewhat differently in each of Browne’s works in Volume III.
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Footnotes and section headers were both printed in the margins. For this version, numbered marginal footnotes have been moved to the end of their chapters. Redundant sidenotes merely indicating Part and Section numbers have been removed.
Hydriotaphia: Both lettered and numbered sidenotes are presented, at the end of each chapter as traditional footnotes.
Garden of Cyrus: Nearly all marginal notes are numbered, and are moved to the end of each chapter as footnotes. Any remaining notes are rendered, as nearly as possible as printed.
Certain Miscellany Tracts: There are both numbered and unnumbered marginal notes. Numbered notes have been moved only to the end of each tract.
Christian Morals: The marginal entries are either section numbers or footnotes. The latter have been moved to the end of each part.
Spelling varies considerably, and the text as printed is nearly always retained. The table below summarizes any changes that were made, as well as any variants which have not been changed, but are particularly problematic.
The yogh-like character following a final q in many Latin words is a scribal abbreviation for ‘ue’, "quinq;"; and was frequently printed as a semicolon (;) In the script that appears as a caption to the "quincunce" preceding p. 147, the character appears as as yogh (ȝ).
Trivial inconsistencies in punctuation, particularly in abbreviations appearing in footnotes or sidenotes, as well as the Index, have been silently resolved.
In the text of Found in Norwalk, punctuation and capitalization seems haphazard, and has been left as printed.
An error in the Index for Eugibinius refers the reader to see "Stenchus". The entry is correctly made to Steuchus A. Augustinius Steuchus was a 16th century humanist.
The following entries indicate where minor printer’s errors were made. With few exceptions, Latin passages are allowed to stand as printed, except where noted below.
| p. 99 | not in Cæs. Comme[n]tar., | added ‘n’ in footnote |
| p. 101 | The Ægy[p]tians were afraid of fire | added ‘p’ |
| p. 139 | we compute o[u]r felicities | added ‘u’. |
| p. 153 | poss[ess]ions of his father | added ‘ess’ |
| p. 164 | Greec[e] | added ‘e’ |
| p. 258 | [227]: Psal. 120. 4. | marginal note number was added to match anchor |
| p. 279 | De Horti[-]cultura. | hyphen missing, joined. |
| p. 291 | Note 1: [S]ee Vulg. Err. B. 3. c. 10. | added ‘S’ |
| p. 333 | στρα[τ]εύηται | added ‘τ’ |
| p. 351 | [1.] A poem of Ovidius Naso | Added the subsection number for consistency |
| p. 411 | [h/H]e is said to have begun | changed to uppercase ‘H’ |
| p. 423 | holden June 4. 1633[./,] it was agreed | changed to comma |
| p. 538 | ...a cod[./,] a very good dish... | ‘.’ corrected to ‘,’ |
| p. 573 | Ear-wig, [296./ii. 96.] | 'ii. 96' rather than '296'. |
| p. 573 | Egypt, i. 137, 159, 350; ii. 6, 7, 81, 89, 92, 158, 286, 332, 350-62, 376, 395-6; [ii./iii.] 80 et passim. | corrected from ‘ii.‘ |
| p. 573 | Electrical bodies, [i.] 254. | added missing volume. |
| p. 574 | Eve, ... iii. [v./5-6, 10] | corrected Roman v and added actual Vol. III references. |
| p. 576 | Gnat-net, [iii.] 158. | added volume references. |
| p. 590 | Pigeon, i. 34, 317-8, 320-[11/1]; | remove extraneous ‘1’ |
| p. 590 | ---- tree, [iii.] 168] | added missing volume reference |
| p. 592 | Purchas, [iii/ii.] 70, 86. | Wrong volume reference |
| p. 593 | Saligniaco (B. de), [379/iii. 79] | corrected volume reference |
| p. 600 | Vespasian ii. 88, 149[;ii./,] 222; | combined redundant‘ii.’ entries |