Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646 (Classic Reprint)

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The text followed in this edition of Bradford is that of the textedition published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1898, which Mr. Davis assured me used to be unusually accurate. In all cases where doubt seemed warranted, comparison used to be made with the excellent facsimile mentioned in the editors I ntroduction, and in a couple of cases with the original manuscript. But in some particulars a systematic departure has been made from the practice followed in the Massachusetts edition. That edition prints the symbols ,if, yand y, and the contractions wand vf, as they stand in the manuscript. In this edition I have followed what is believed to be a better practice, by giving to these manuscript marks the form which, we may presume, they would have borne in print if Bradford smanuscript had been printed in his lifetime; i. e., I have printed, for the above, the words and, the, that, they, with and which. A lso, where the original places a short line over a letter, to indicate the omission of an TO or an Mdirectly following it, I have substituted the missing letter itself, as would commonly have been done in seventeenthcentury printing; and have disregarded Bradford sunderscoring or italicizing of words whenever it looked as if it would haven’t any significance, or a significance other than that now conveyed by italics. Names of ships have been uniformly set in italics. Bradford sfrequent use of parentheses in preference to commas has not been followed. The notes which Bradford appended to his text, continuously writing them on the margins of his pages, have been reproduced in the footnotes of the current edition, but have been distinguished from the editors notes by placing them in quotation-marks, and adding Br. or some less abbreviated indication of their authorship. The notes which are attributed to Rev. Thomas Prince in this edition are notes which he wrote on the manuscript at the same time as it used to be in his
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