englishman

englishman (plural englishmen)

1. Obsolete form of Englishman.
   • 1528 October 12, William Tyndale, The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp: Johannes Hoochstraten], folio cxxiij, verso; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

     In Christ there is nether frēch ner english: but the frenchman is the englishmans awne selfe / and the english the frenchmans awne selfe.

   • 1549, William Thomas, The Historie of Italie, a Boke Excedyng Profitable to Be Redde: Because It Intreateth of the Astate of Many and Diuers Common Weales, How Thei Haue Ben, & Now Be Gouerned, London: […] [I]n the house of Thomas Berthelet, folio 54, recto; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

     Adrian the .iiii. an englishman borne,* constreigned the Consulles and Senatours of Rome to depose theym selfes, and to committe all theyr rule vnto the churche.

   • 1565, Thomas Stapleton, A Fortresse of the Faith: First Planted Amonge Vs Englishmen, and Continued Hitherto in the Vniuersall Church of Christ. The Faith of Which Time Protestants Call, Papistry., Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], folio 2, recto:

     HAuing at this preſent publiſhed the Hiſtory off the Church of England, compiled by Venerable Bede, a lerned light of our countre aboue 800. yeares paſt, wherein the Faith firſt planted amonge vs engliſhmen, and ſo many hundred yeares continued, is expreſſed, I neuer doubted but the peruſall thereof ſhoulde be to the Catholike and true ſtedfaſt beleuers, bothe comfortable to reade, and neceſſary to vnderſtande.

englishman

1. Alternative form of Englishman
   • [1484], The Boke of the Fayt of Armes and of Chyualrye […], [Westminster: William Caxton]; republished in Early English Books Online‎, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:

     Now wel maister another manere awaie I wil spek telle me thēne / & a frenshmen had taken a litell childe of an englishman / might he aske by ryght any raūson for hym for it shulde seme ye / seen that he that may wel make the mo¦re grete a thinge / may wel make the smallest / as what to saye he myght wel take prysoner the fader yf the cas befell why not the childe aswell / […]

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