Transcriber's Notes:Inconsistent hyphenation has been left as in the original text.Inconsistent use of contractions are left as in the original text.The long s has been replaced with the modern s in order to improve readability.In some cases the footnotes refer to the text prior to the footnote anchor and in some cases they refer to the text after. All anchors have been attached to the word before the anchor.Bishop Smalbroke and Smallbroke are used interchangeably throughout as are Lichfield and Litchfield, left as in the original text.Inconsistent italicising appears throughout, left as in the original text.There are several words that are consistently misspelled and also correctly spelled in the text (i.e. litteral, sensless, antient, ideot), these were left as in the original text.There are several places where closing quotes are not present, left as in the original text.