The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3): From original and authentic sourcesThomson, A. T., Mrs.
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The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3): From original and authentic sources
Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628
There are several anomolies in the footnoting. In the original,
there is a single footnote 1 in the Preface, and the numbering
begins again at the opening of the first chapter. The sequence
continues to 99, and then restarts with 1. This is repeated several
times. There are also several notes which are denoted only with a
traditional asterisk. On occasion, footnotes appear out of order.
There is no apparent reason for the dual system, and it seems most
likely that the non-numeric references were added later, after the
numbering had been completed, and were used to avoid the need to
re-sequence work already done.
For this text, all footnotes have been re-sequenced numerically
across the whole volume, to assure uniqueness. They will appear in
the correct order.
p. 99 Footnote 112 (‘_Ibid._’) had no anchor in the text, but,
based on the passages in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ referred to in
the prior note, the quoted text would seem to end near the
bottom of the page, and has been added there.
p. 105 There is a anchor to a footnote 119 at ‘benefited his family
more than himself.[119]’ which does not appear on the page.
The same anchor appears on p. 107 along with a footnote
using the same number. The dubious anchor has been removed.
p. 152 Footnote 169 had no anchor in the text, but refers to the
quoted passage. An anchor (169)has been added at that point.
The two spellings of the modern Hurstpierpoint, ‘Hurst-pierre-point’
and ‘Hurst-per-point’, are retained, though the second hyphen in the
latter occurs on a line break.
The text ends with a list of _errata_ which covers many of the
issues listed at the end of this note. The intent of this list has
been honored, and the indicated changes made. Links are provided to
the corresponding item in that list.
The first items of the _errata_ would seem to correct the spelling
of the home of the Villiers from ‘Brokesby’ to ‘Brookesby’. There
are two more instances that were not mentioned, which have been
corrected as well.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected,
and are noted here. Given the frequent quotations, it was inevitable
that opening and closing quotation marks would sometimes be lost.
They are placed here where the context or voice makes their position
obvious, or where an inspection of the original sources was possible
and allowed for the proper punctuation.
The paragraph beginning on p. 147 ends with a closing quotation
mark. There is no obvious point at which that quotation might begin.
The mark is retained, in any case.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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