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This is a bit of a minor issue, and I accept it's largely on me, but I confess I found the footnotes in the Pevear edition annoying.
I wasn't reading for a knowledge of the history so I didn't really need to know all the background. I didn't really care whether the 'real' so-and-so would have been five at the time.
However I kept checking the footnotes because of the few that were useful - e.g. when he tells us that a particular road was where the police station was and therefore a phrase referring to that road, where readers would have known it was a reference to the police, that was useful. And whilst I generally got the Biblical references I didn't begrudge those.
I realise this is my slightly OCD-ish need to have read all the footnotes, which is why I say it's on me really.
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