Orthographic Conventions

The following orthographic conventions have been observed. Long “s” ligatures, thorn and other non-standard characters have been normalised. Contractions have been expanded and are indicated by italics. Doubled letters (commonly “vv” and “ff”) have been normalised. Digraphs are maintained. Titles of Early Modern texts are capitalised. Irregular usages of italics and blocks of capitalised text are normalised. Other typographical irregularities are normalised and given in italics or removed silently.

In citations London is silently accepted as the place of publication except in cases where multiple locations are given. Where provided, online references follow the conventions for citation given by the resource consulted. Biblical quotations are taken from the King James version.