Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. For the proper names the usual form is given except where there is some especial reason for preferring another spelling. There has been no attempt to attain uniformity. It would be impossible without a palaeographic purism which obscures familiar names and events, and certainly has no place in under graduate work. The extracts from the sources are printed here because these particular bits do not seem to fit into any of the existing series.