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},
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},
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},
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"3": "",
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},
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"ref": "2011, Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622",
"text": "James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.",
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"3": "",
"4": "maternal uncle"
},
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"name": "m"
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"text": "James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.",
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