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Holinshed's Chronicles, bound in two hefty volumes, was among a number of books that the researchers requested to see.

Bourne started to compare the annotations in Holinshed's Chronicles with those in the Shakespeare Folio.

Bourne wasn't sure how Scott-Warren would respond to the Holinshed notations, describing him as "very conservative" when it comes to reaching such verdicts.

Milton's handwriting evolved in the 1630s and the version preserved in the Holinshed matches entries dating from the early 1640s in both manuscripts.

Holinshed's massive account of English, Irish and Scottish history from antiquity to the reign of Elizabeth I was a major source for Shakespeare's histories and other plays including Macbeth.