Some words are sometimes hyphenated, and sometimes not hyphenated. All reasonable variants of spelling, grammar and punctuation have been retained. There are a lot of sometimes old foreign words, and some French/English hybrid text from earlier centuries. England did not have spelling or punctuation rules until the various Public Instruction Acts (c. 1860-70) in Queen Victoria's reign. In this book, that may have also extended to French and Latin spellings!! Mismatched quotes. Punctuation is not always regular; some opened quotes are not always closed. General Note: Mismatched quotes often occur with quotations where the quotation is enclosed within double quotes and each line or paragraph within that quote begins with double quotes but has no end double quote. Minor typographical errors have been corrected. All sidenotes have been moved to the start of the paragraphs in which they appear in the original. Where the paragraph is a quotation then the double quote has been moved to the start of the first sidenote. This ensures that all side-notes within that paragraph are contained within the double quotes at the beginning and end of the quotation. See Line 494: Sidenote "_Riuer of Wels_: and Line 607: Sidenote: "_Fitzstephen. Holy well. Line 770: 'discretionbus' corrected to 'discretionibus'. Line 1436: Unspaced punctuation, e.g. "Near Battle Bridge,'tis plain, sirs:", is as printed, and denotes elisions (the running together of words to fit the metre). Lines 2789-90: Mismatched quotes "Yours, &c., "EUGENIO." Line 8156: "cortége" is an old spelling (in use until the end of the 19th century). There are many occasions when the term 'l.' or 'li.' is used. 'l.' or 'li.' = libra = pound/pounds. or £, so, £140 = 140 l. or 140 li.