A leading indagator who presumes to pose as a Sunday language expert has made a series of grammatical gaffes during the past year, and it's time somebody nailed him on them.

His early essays in the Gentleman's Magazine, under the signatures of "Indagator" and "Indagator Roffensis", obtained for him the friendship of Samuel Denne, the Kentish antiquary.

In Leonard Plukenet's Mantissa, published in that year, he is mentioned as the discoverer, in Tothill Fields, Westminster, of the plant now known as Rumex palustris, and was described (p. 112) as "stirpium indagator diligentissimus .