The Enhanced Text

Because of fire damage, large portions of the manuscript are missing or unreadable. Fortunately, the seventeenth-century transcriptions made by John Strype enable the reconstruction of many of these gaps. We have augmented the transcription with material from Strype when possible; this enhanced text appears in red. Strype employed the conventions of the 1690s in publishing his extracts: for instance, Machyn does not use the apostrophe in names like St. Dunstan's ; Strype regularly uses such "modern" forms. Holding the cursor over a portion of material taken from Strype's transcriptions causes an abbreviation to appear that shows the volume and page of Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials from which the words have been taken.

Occasionally words are completed by inference. Thus, if a part of a word is readable and a part of it is missing, we have completed the word when we have been able to do so with confidence (e.g., "west mynsterha" is completed as west mynsterhall"). These are also marked with red type.