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Evelyn was a most laborious annotator, never employing an amanuensis: among his MSS.

Could a marginal annotator expand this into the talk about God, her French dowry, her various titles and pretensions?

Suppose that the annotator recorded this gossip about the poisoning of Lady Bothwell on the margin.

The annotator further says 253, "It is needless to comment upon such hearsay statements, received from an African traveller."

Precision, unfavourable to truth, according to Mungo Park's annotator, 446.