[A] From an article by the late John Just, M.A., of Bury.
[B] Knott is also used for the name of a mountain or hill, as in Arnside Knott, in Westmoreland, but near the Lancashire border.
[D] The ancestors of the poet were, however, more likely "Chaussiers," makers of long hose.
[E] From "Free Trader," issued by the Liberal Free Traders, Dec., 1904.
[F] From "The Hungry Forties," written by Mr. Cobden's daughter.
[G] From Report of Agricultural Committee of the Tariff Commission.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; frequent unbalanced quotation marks not remedied except as noted below.
Page 16: "hopped ale.'" either is missing an opening quotation mark or has a superfluous ending one.
Page 36: 'is "Warcock Hill.' either is missing a closing quotation mark or has a superfluous opening one.
Page 62: "descrip-names" was printed that way; may be misprint for "descriptive names".
Page 65: Text beginning with '"Robert de Cowdray, who died in 1222' has no closing quotation mark.
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Page 72: Ending quotation mark added to "I's t'".
Page 73: "helder--preferably;" the semi-colon was printed as a colon, but changed here for consistency with the rest of the list.
Page 80: "are also easily be recognised" was printed that way.
Page 80: "or clap-cake, form" probably should be "from".
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Page 114: Missing quotation mark added after 'is in Norse "Stegger."'
Page 117: There is no "CHAPTER VIII" in this book, but the chapter names match the Table of Contents.
Page 132: Paragraph beginning "The Bewcastle cross in the Gigurd shaft" was printed as shown here.
Pages 144-151: Runic symbols appeared to the left of each entry in the Clog Almanac on these pages, and between some of them. To avoid clutter, this eBook does not indicate where those symbols appeared.
Page 147: "St. John Beverlev" may be alternate spelling for "Beverley".
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