How to Use This Book
in this volume. A phrase like “His most Christian Majesty”
would be rendered as “His moft Chriftian Majefty” in the tran-
script in these volumes. Typographical and grammatical errors
present in the alliance source documents have been reproduced
in these volumes as well.
In addition to the entries, features have been provided to
assist further study. A timeline cataloging major events in
political and military history is located at the front of each vol-
ume, along with guides listing alliances by region and in
chronological order. The shorter general table of contents is fur-
ther supplemented at the start of each chapter, where readers
will find a list of documents within that chapter, effectively
adding five century-based tables of contents to the book.lxii