Transcriber’s Note

Obvious punctuation errors and omissions have been silently corrected, while those requiring interpretation have been left open.

The following misprints have been corrected:

• “philosphical” changed to “philosophical” (page viii)
• “engineeers” changed to “engineers” (page ix)
• “For willsof husbandmen" corrected to “For wills of husbandmen" (note 2)
• “he” corrected to “the” (page 3)
• the closing parenthesis was added to "(19.04%)" in Table I (page 25)
• “Christain" corrected to “Christian” (note 94)
• Footnote 145 had no anchor in the text; placement is based on context (page 69)
• A spurious “)” was removed following “No 324" in note 169 (page 81)
• an unclear fraction was rendered as "6-1/8" (page 107)
• “writtings" corrected to “writings” (page 114)
• “Wordonand Bilton” changed to “Wordon and Bilton" (Note 298)
• “Asslegge” was changed to “Asselegge” (page 181)
• “Harrington’s The Art of Lawgiving" was corrected to “Harrington’s The Art of Law-giving" (page 191, note 346)
• Footnote 399 had no entry in the text, its placement is speculative, based on the context (page 211page 211)
• “arbitarily” was corrected to “arbitrarily” (page 248)
• “clases” was changed to “classes” (page 282)
• “ntromittere” was corrected to “intromittere” (note 511) (page 292)
• “beantiful” was corrected to “beautiful” (page 327)
• “protecting the clsss” was corrected to “protecting the class" (page 340)
• “impoverishing the fines fighting material" was corrected to “impoverishing the finest fighting material" (page 343)
• Footnote 670 had no entry in the text, its placement is speculative, based on context. (page 371)
• “wasloste” was corrected to “was loste" (page 411)
• “commonweath” was changed to “commonweal” (page 461)
• The page reference for the Earl of Leicester of “502” was corrected to “302” (page 461)

Hyphenation is sometimes inconsistent in the text. These inconsistencies have been retained:

• bye-laws/byelaws
• re-action/reaction
• reallotment/re-allotment
• sub-let/sublet
• land-holding/landholding
• over-stocking/overstocking
• sub-tenants/subtenants
• corn-fields/cornfields
• sub-letting /subletting
• foodstuffs/food-stuffs
• lease-holders/leaseholders
• countryside/country-side
• re-adjustment/readjustment
• sub-divided/subdivided
• re-arranged/rearranged
• re-arrangement/rearrangement
• over-estimated/overestimated

If the discrepancies is between the text and the indexes, the indexes have been corrected to match the text.

• “rackrenting” was changed to “rack-renting”
• “foldcourses" was changed to “fold-courses”