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
The World Encompassed, supported by Stow the annalist, and two independent naval authorities, cotemporaries of Sir F. Drake, is quoted in favour of the higher latitude of 48°.
From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Travers Twiss
Mooney, the Franciscan annalist, merely attests that "he lived for some time subsequent to 1599".
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various
"In a short time," says the annalist, "it was commonly reported forty men of Andover could raise the devil as well as any astrologer."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
This was the same Mrs. Butler, formerly Mary Sigourney, whose reminiscences, the late Rev. Dr. Holmes, the learned and persevering annalist, has quoted in his "Memoir of the French Protestants."
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
