Antedating of "Footnote"

[Fred Shapiro]

footnote (OED 1841)

1713 John Gillan _A vindication of the fundamental charter of presbytery_
183 (Eighteeenth Century Collections Online)  ERRATA. ... P. 95. L. 13. in
the Foot-Note.

Fred Shapiro


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