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

Llancarvan is also distinguished as the birth-place of Caradoc, the Welsh annalist, who compiled a history of the Principality, from the abdication of Cadwaladyr, 686, to his own time.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell

The malignant annalist asserted, too, that Napoleon's motive was personal spite against Prussia.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

The Historical Romance is founded on history, but it differs from it in the most essential particulars, and is relieved from the principal difficulties with which the annalist of actual occurrences has to contend.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Marlborough's services to England and the cause of European independence in this campaign, recall one mournful feeling to the British annalist.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various