Appendix B contains a series of letters in French. The editor comments (p. #447): “The spelling of the words in the Letters, the way in which those words are run into one another...have ... been left as they stand in the transcript.” With that approach, with three exceptions (obvious transpositions of letters), no corrections have been made.
Likewise, there are frequent quotations from contemporary sources, and any deviations from our standard spellings are left untouched, but noted here: mesages (44.23), l’esperane 495.6, contrar (552.8).
At 10.11, there is an error. the Electress Sophia died in 1714 not 1712, two months before Britain’s Queen Anne died and Sophia’s son George became George I of England.
In the Index, references to a note on a given page, may include the original note number (e.g., ‘323 note 1’) should there be more than one. In those cases the original number is changed to the resequenced number.
The Index entry on p. 101 for Charles (Elector Palatine does not exist. . Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. or, if in a note, to the page, note and line within the note.
| 2.26 | of militant Protestan[t]ism | Inserted. |
| 71.15 | the hand of [his/her] elder sister | Replaced. |
| 140.15 | the Round Tow[n/er] at Windsor Castle | Replaced. |
| 188.4 | in her [ç/c]i-devant lover | Replaced. |
| 319.19 | at the Court of St. James.[’] | Removed, |
| 371.159.2 | May 27th, 1[9/7]02 | Replaced. |
| 401.18 | no warrant for either as[s]umption; | Inserted. |
| 460.10 | je soufri[ar/ra]ÿ pour vous | Transposed. |
| 461.16 | des remaide indi[ng/gn]e d’un honest homme | Transposed. |
| 466.15 | comme je pouraÿ postai[ts/st]re recevoir | Transposed. |
| 503.30 | for its sake[.] | Added, |
| 522.6 | obedient servant’ser[vant].[1] | Removed, spurious. |
| 540.1.1 | in the immediate vi[nc/cin]ity | Replaced. |
| 563.14 | 40[1/4] note | Replaced. |