annalist
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Nevertheless, it is not for us to guestimate the workload of an annalist of the Floridian ancien regime.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2016
This period in the history of Seville is dark, and beset with difficulty for the annalist.
From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
It is also likely that the closing years in Britain were peaceful and quiet, such as do not give the annalist much to record.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
The information, it must be owned, bears the appearance of having been transmitted by some contemporary annalist, whose impartiality may have perhaps been biassed by some of the numerous incitements which operate upon courtiers.
From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
He is always worth comparing with the extant English Chronicles; and from 1106 he is an independent annalist, dry but accurate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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