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Notes
The most comprehensive discussion of the subject is Percy Simpson, Proof-reading in the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1935), pp. 46-109 ('Early proofs and copy').
'The Book of Common Prayer and the monarchy from the Restoration to the reign of George I: some bibliographical observations', Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 5 (1981), 81-92.
Quoted from the warrant of 17 April 1707, which specifies the changes made necessary by the union of the crowns of England and Scotland (capitalisation made to conform to modern practice); the wording is constant from the Restoration to at least the middle of the nineteenth century. The texts were also sometimes published in the London Gazette.
Capitalisation made to conform to modern practice. The order in council itself was not published in the Gazette.
The NLW exemplar was compared with the 'Eighteenth Century' microfilm version of the BL exemplar.
A further curiosity in the preliminaries is the mixture of roman and arabic in the pagination of A: [i-vi] vii 8 ix [x] 11-14 (or π[1-6] vii 8 ix [10] 11-14).
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