Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some accents and hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Pg v: ‘a New Aquaintance’ replaced by ‘a New Acquaintance’. Pg 28: ‘he never put’ replaced by ‘He never put’. Pg 152: ‘clever women’ replaced by ‘clever woman’. Pg 186: ‘and Hugenots’ replaced by ‘and Huguenots’. Pg 214: ‘de Champvalon’ replaced by ‘de Champvallon’. Pg 214: ‘he was not denied’ replaced by ‘he was denied’. Pg 228: ‘ont he life of’ replaced by ‘on the life of’. Pg 261: ‘de Chamvallon’ replaced by ‘de Champvallon’. Pg 265: ‘shivered ’dAubigné’ replaced by ‘shivered d’Aubigné’. Pg 293: ‘towards the de Montespan’ replaced by ‘towards de Montespan’.