An Attempt To Date
Royalty
G.D.O'Bradovich III
August, 2014
[unfinished]
The Oxford English Dictionary has been consulted for the word "royalty". Secondary sources are in red.
1405c (▸c1390) Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 320 Heer may men feste and roialtee biholde ...
1425a (1376) Langland Piers Plowman (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) A. xi. l. 228 (MED), Royalte [c1400 Trin. Cambr. Kinghod & kniȝthod..Helpiþ nouȝt to heuene..Ne ricchesse, ne rentis, ne realte of lordis].
1425c Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 3549 (MED), ...Lordes, princes from her royalte ...
1450c (▸c1390) Chaucer Fortune (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 60 ... Why shuldest thow my royaltee oppresse?
1450c (▸c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 54 (MED), ... With grete rowte and roialte.
1479▸a Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 98 So they rode freysshly with grete royalte.
1500a (▸1422) J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 151 (MED), But of the roialte and riches of goode men comyth goodnys, Ande of the lordshupp of Cursid men comyth many lostis and myschefis.
1500c Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 496 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 238 There lyeth the Duches of Normandye, With many a lorde of her counsell, Of all thys greate lande the royalltye.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. zz.iiii, Salomon in all his royalty was neuer clad with...
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGGiiii, ... he wolde lytell regarde his royalte.
1543 Chron. J. Hardyng f. ccxxxiiiv, Please it also vnto your royaltee The quene maye haue...
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiiijv, ...the triumphant dooynges of the Cardinalles royaltie.
1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. Diij, Her Maiestie.., whose royaltie not only wisheth them good...
1592a R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F, I came to haue your royalties to dine With Frier Bacon...
1594 H. Platt Jewell House i. 9 Nature, which dooth heere present hir selfe in all hir royaltie.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iii. 7 Now soouping in side robes of Royalty,...
1597 Shakespeare Richard III iii. iv. 40 His Masters sonne as worshipful he termes it, Shall loose the roialty...
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 35 ...signifying a King, hee assured himselfe of royaltie.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. C4v, Which of you will perswade my Elidure To take vpon him Englands royaltie.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 122 This iolly Iupiter clothed in his royalties.
1616a Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 179 '... should frame them To Royalty vnlearn'd.
1616a Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 5 As a branch and member of this Royalty, ...
1616a Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 129 Heare our English King, For thus his Royaltie doth speake in me.
1616a Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 51 In his Royaltie of Nature reignes that Which would be fear'd.
1616a Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 156 To the succeeding Royalty he leaues The healing Benediction.
1616a Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 15, I haue stay'd To tyre your Royaltie.
1629 J. Gaule Distractions 102 In a certaine royalty of Speech.
1630 J. Smith True Trav. vii. 11 The Prince his Roialtie, being now beyond all beleefe of men, ...
1631 T. Drue Life Dutches of Suffolke i. sig. A4, I wish it cloth'd with Hymens royalties: ...
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 465 Who is able to value the royalty of this marriage accordingly?
1650c (▸a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 2708 The Emperor or Pope of Rome Might have rung in such royalte.
1689 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. §149 Every Father of a Family..had as good a claim to Royalty as these.
1405c (▸c1390) Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 320 Heer may men feste and roialtee biholde ...
1425a (1376) Langland Piers Plowman (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) A. xi. l. 228 (MED), Royalte [c1400 Trin. Cambr. Kinghod & kniȝthod..Helpiþ nouȝt to heuene..Ne ricchesse, ne rentis, ne realte of lordis].
1425c Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 3549 (MED), ...Lordes, princes from her royalte ...
1450c (▸c1390) Chaucer Fortune (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 60 ... Why shuldest thow my royaltee oppresse?
1450c (▸c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 54 (MED), ... With grete rowte and roialte.
1479▸a Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 98 So they rode freysshly with grete royalte.
1500a (▸1422) J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 151 (MED), But of the roialte and riches of goode men comyth goodnys, Ande of the lordshupp of Cursid men comyth many lostis and myschefis.
1500c Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 496 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 238 There lyeth the Duches of Normandye, With many a lorde of her counsell, Of all thys greate lande the royalltye.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. zz.iiii, Salomon in all his royalty was neuer clad with...
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGGiiii, ... he wolde lytell regarde his royalte.
1543 Chron. J. Hardyng f. ccxxxiiiv, Please it also vnto your royaltee The quene maye haue...
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiiijv, ...the triumphant dooynges of the Cardinalles royaltie.
1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande i. sig. Diij, Her Maiestie.., whose royaltie not only wisheth them good...
1592a R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F, I came to haue your royalties to dine With Frier Bacon...
1594 H. Platt Jewell House i. 9 Nature, which dooth heere present hir selfe in all hir royaltie.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iii. 7 Now soouping in side robes of Royalty,...
1597 Shakespeare Richard III iii. iv. 40 His Masters sonne as worshipful he termes it, Shall loose the roialty...
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 35 ...signifying a King, hee assured himselfe of royaltie.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. C4v, Which of you will perswade my Elidure To take vpon him Englands royaltie.
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 122 This iolly Iupiter clothed in his royalties.
1616a Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 179 '... should frame them To Royalty vnlearn'd.
1616a Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 5 As a branch and member of this Royalty, ...
1616a Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 129 Heare our English King, For thus his Royaltie doth speake in me.
1616a Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 51 In his Royaltie of Nature reignes that Which would be fear'd.
1616a Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 156 To the succeeding Royalty he leaues The healing Benediction.
1616a Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 15, I haue stay'd To tyre your Royaltie.
1629 J. Gaule Distractions 102 In a certaine royalty of Speech.
1630 J. Smith True Trav. vii. 11 The Prince his Roialtie, being now beyond all beleefe of men, ...
1631 T. Drue Life Dutches of Suffolke i. sig. A4, I wish it cloth'd with Hymens royalties: ...
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 465 Who is able to value the royalty of this marriage accordingly?
1650c (▸a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 2708 The Emperor or Pope of Rome Might have rung in such royalte.
1689 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. §149 Every Father of a Family..had as good a claim to Royalty as these.
King
Etymology:
A Common Germanic word: Old English cyning = Old Frisian kin- , ken- , koning ,
Old Saxon kuning (Middle Dutch coninc , Dutch koning , Middle Low German kon(n)ink ),
Old High German chun- , kuning
< Old Germanic *kuningo-z , a derivative of *kunjo- ,
Gothic kuni ,
Old English cynn , kin n.1, race, etc.
In most of the Germanic languages two reduced forms appear:
1) Old English cynig = Old Frisian kinig , etc.,
Old Saxon kunig (Middle Dutch conich ),
Old High German chun- , kunig (Middle High German künic , künec , German könig , †künig );
2) Old English cyng , cing = Middle High German künc (obsolete German küng , kung ),
Old Norse kóngr (Swedish kung , Danish konge ).
A Common Germanic word: Old English cyning = Old Frisian kin- , ken- , koning ,
Old Saxon kuning (Middle Dutch coninc , Dutch koning , Middle Low German kon(n)ink ),
Old High German chun- , kuning
< Old Germanic *kuningo-z , a derivative of *kunjo- ,
Gothic kuni ,
Old English cynn , kin n.1, race, etc.
In most of the Germanic languages two reduced forms appear:
1) Old English cynig = Old Frisian kinig , etc.,
Old Saxon kunig (Middle Dutch conich ),
Old High German chun- , kunig (Middle High German künic , künec , German könig , †künig );
2) Old English cyng , cing = Middle High German künc (obsolete German küng , kung ),
Old Norse kóngr (Swedish kung , Danish konge ).
a855 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 577, Her Cuþwine and Ceawlin fuhton wiþ Brettas, and hie .iii. kyningas ...
858 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 438 Se cyning sealde..wullafe fif sulung landes.
875 Anglo-Saxon Chron., And for Godrum and Oscytel and Anwynd, þa .iii. cyningas,...
971 Blickl. Hom. 69 Hi..hine weorþodon swa cinige geriseþ.
971 Blickl. Hom. 71 He wæs to cinge ongyten & gehered.
c1001 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) ann. 1001, Þæs cynincges gerefa.
a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1123, Se kyng alihte dune of his hors.
a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124, Se king let don þone eorl..on heftnunge.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 115 Ðes kingges rihtwisnesse areteð his kine setle.
c1275 (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12281 Þider weoren icumen. seouen kingene sunen.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8179 He smot þoru out wiþ a launce on of hor hexte kinge.
a1325 (▸c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 834 Neg ilc burge hadde ise louereding; Sum was king ...
▸a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 263 Wel nygh al þe kyngyn ...
▸a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 151 ... ȝongelyng of kyngene kynde.
a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4243 To putifer, þe king stiward.
a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3382 Ysmael had wijfs thrin þat kinges tuelue þar come of him.
c1400 Rom. Rose 6851 These emperours..Or kyngis, dukis, & lordis grete.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 888 Of the Rodes he was a king son.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) v. 119 ...and abatynge of the glorie of a kynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Pet. ii. 17 Feare God. Honoure the kynge [1382 Wyclif Make ȝe the kyng honourable; 1388 onoure ȝe the king].
1603 Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 122 There's such diuinitie doth wall a king.
1608 Shakespeare King Lear xx. 105, I euer inch a King when I do stare, see how the subiect quakes.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 836 Their Kings were no other then the chiefe in every Cottage, ...
858 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 438 Se cyning sealde..wullafe fif sulung landes.
875 Anglo-Saxon Chron., And for Godrum and Oscytel and Anwynd, þa .iii. cyningas,...
971 Blickl. Hom. 69 Hi..hine weorþodon swa cinige geriseþ.
971 Blickl. Hom. 71 He wæs to cinge ongyten & gehered.
c1001 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) ann. 1001, Þæs cynincges gerefa.
a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1123, Se kyng alihte dune of his hors.
a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124, Se king let don þone eorl..on heftnunge.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 115 Ðes kingges rihtwisnesse areteð his kine setle.
c1275 (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12281 Þider weoren icumen. seouen kingene sunen.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8179 He smot þoru out wiþ a launce on of hor hexte kinge.
a1325 (▸c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 834 Neg ilc burge hadde ise louereding; Sum was king ...
▸a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 263 Wel nygh al þe kyngyn ...
▸a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 151 ... ȝongelyng of kyngene kynde.
a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4243 To putifer, þe king stiward.
a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3382 Ysmael had wijfs thrin þat kinges tuelue þar come of him.
c1400 Rom. Rose 6851 These emperours..Or kyngis, dukis, & lordis grete.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 888 Of the Rodes he was a king son.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) v. 119 ...and abatynge of the glorie of a kynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Pet. ii. 17 Feare God. Honoure the kynge [1382 Wyclif Make ȝe the kyng honourable; 1388 onoure ȝe the king].
1603 Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 122 There's such diuinitie doth wall a king.
1608 Shakespeare King Lear xx. 105, I euer inch a King when I do stare, see how the subiect quakes.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 836 Their Kings were no other then the chiefe in every Cottage, ...
Queen
Etymology:
Cognate with Old Saxon quān wife,
Old Icelandic kván wife, (in poetry) queen (also as kvæn ),
Gothic qens woman < an ablaut variant (lengthened grade) of the Indo-European base of quean n.; compare Sanskrit jāni wife.
In Old English a strong feminine, the reflex of the genitive singular of which (Old English cwēne ) occas. survives into early Middle English (compare quene ), although levelling of the genitive singular in -es is found as early as the first half of the 12th cent.
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) i. x. 30 Hi mon hæt on Crecisc Amazasanas [read Amazanas], þæt is on Englisc fortende. Heora twa wæron heora cwena, Marsepia & Lampida wæron hatene.
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xliv. 11 (10) Adstitit regina a dextris tuis, in uestitu deaurato circumamicta uarietate : ætstod cwoen to swiðran ðire in gegerelan bigyldum ymbswapen misenlicnisse.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123, Ða hwile þet se ærcebiscop wæs ut of lande, geaf se kyng ðone biscoprice of Baðe þes cwenes canceler, Godefreið wæs gehaten.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1048, Þa forlet se cyng þa hlæfdian seo wæs gehalgod him to cwene.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xl. 339 Sum cwen wæs on ðam dagum on suðdæle, Saba gehaten.
OE Exodus 512 Egyptum wearð..deop lean gesceod, forðam þæs heriges ham eft ne com..ænig to lafe, þætte sið heoro [readheora] secgan moste,..hordwearda hryre, hæleða cwenum.
OE Genesis A 2261 Ða wearð unbliðe Abrahames cwen.
OE Riddle 80 3 Cwen mec hwilum hwitloccedu hond on legeð, eorles dohtor, þeah hio æþelu sy.
OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) i. ii. 22 Æfter his deaðe Sameramis his cwen [L. uxor] fengc..to þæm rice.1160?a
Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140, Þa com þe kinges cuen m[id a]l hire strengthe ...
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 22 Ælienor, þe wes Henries quene.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1871 ...þat scholde a quene [c1300 Otho cwene] beon king...
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 519 ...& his dohter Ignogen heore duc to quene.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12333 Alle þa quene [c1300 Otho cweanes] þe icumen ...
1300c Holy Cross (Laud) 41 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 2 Bi-fore þe quyene huy come.
1300c (▸c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) 264 (MED), ... Bute o ȝer ne schal heo beon his Quene.
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 608 Þe quene fader, corineus, was ded.
1375a William of Palerne (1867) 2662 Þanne þat comliche quen curteyseliche...
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 443 (MED), Þe quene, his wyf, ...
1400c (▸?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2492 (MED), Þe kyng kyssez þe knyȝt, & þe whene alce.
1425a (▸a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 4461 (MED), A qwene..haldes þam in.
1450c Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 728 (MED), ... and kinge, and I thi quene.
1470▸a Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1197, I was sente unto my lady, youre quyne,...
1500a Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) l. 3578 (MED), Ouere hem þei haue a quene Þat kepeþ hem as quene shulde ...
1500a (▸?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale 174 (MED), And that tyme there was in Spayne a queene namyd Lupie ...
1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Ferdinand of Arragon (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 248 Hit was saied that bothe the Kynge and the Quyn wold come by the see.
1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Ferdinand of Arragon (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 249 In the liffe of the quyne.
1540c (▸?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 3163 Menelai wife..The grettist of grese and a gai qwhene.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxvv, He made greate purueighance of all thynges necessary for the coronacion of his Quene.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 32 Dew obedience..to kingis, quenis, princes, and prelatis.
1565 Act 8 Eliz. c. 11 §1 The Disfurniture of Service to be done to the Queen's Majesty.
1592 Expos. Terms Law 196 b, Warren is a place priuiledged by prescription or graunt of the Queene for ...
Etymology:
Cognate with Old Saxon quān wife,
Old Icelandic kván wife, (in poetry) queen (also as kvæn ),
Gothic qens woman < an ablaut variant (lengthened grade) of the Indo-European base of quean n.; compare Sanskrit jāni wife.
In Old English a strong feminine, the reflex of the genitive singular of which (Old English cwēne ) occas. survives into early Middle English (compare quene ), although levelling of the genitive singular in -es is found as early as the first half of the 12th cent.
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) i. x. 30 Hi mon hæt on Crecisc Amazasanas [read Amazanas], þæt is on Englisc fortende. Heora twa wæron heora cwena, Marsepia & Lampida wæron hatene.
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xliv. 11 (10) Adstitit regina a dextris tuis, in uestitu deaurato circumamicta uarietate : ætstod cwoen to swiðran ðire in gegerelan bigyldum ymbswapen misenlicnisse.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123, Ða hwile þet se ærcebiscop wæs ut of lande, geaf se kyng ðone biscoprice of Baðe þes cwenes canceler, Godefreið wæs gehaten.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1048, Þa forlet se cyng þa hlæfdian seo wæs gehalgod him to cwene.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xl. 339 Sum cwen wæs on ðam dagum on suðdæle, Saba gehaten.
OE Exodus 512 Egyptum wearð..deop lean gesceod, forðam þæs heriges ham eft ne com..ænig to lafe, þætte sið heoro [readheora] secgan moste,..hordwearda hryre, hæleða cwenum.
OE Genesis A 2261 Ða wearð unbliðe Abrahames cwen.
OE Riddle 80 3 Cwen mec hwilum hwitloccedu hond on legeð, eorles dohtor, þeah hio æþelu sy.
OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) i. ii. 22 Æfter his deaðe Sameramis his cwen [L. uxor] fengc..to þæm rice.1160?a
Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140, Þa com þe kinges cuen m[id a]l hire strengthe ...
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 22 Ælienor, þe wes Henries quene.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1871 ...þat scholde a quene [c1300 Otho cwene] beon king...
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 519 ...& his dohter Ignogen heore duc to quene.
1275c (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12333 Alle þa quene [c1300 Otho cweanes] þe icumen ...
1300c Holy Cross (Laud) 41 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 2 Bi-fore þe quyene huy come.
1300c (▸c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) 264 (MED), ... Bute o ȝer ne schal heo beon his Quene.
1325c (▸c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 608 Þe quene fader, corineus, was ded.
1375a William of Palerne (1867) 2662 Þanne þat comliche quen curteyseliche...
1387▸a J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 443 (MED), Þe quene, his wyf, ...
1400c (▸?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2492 (MED), Þe kyng kyssez þe knyȝt, & þe whene alce.
1425a (▸a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 4461 (MED), A qwene..haldes þam in.
1450c Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) 728 (MED), ... and kinge, and I thi quene.
1470▸a Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1197, I was sente unto my lady, youre quyne,...
1500a Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) l. 3578 (MED), Ouere hem þei haue a quene Þat kepeþ hem as quene shulde ...
1500a (▸?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale 174 (MED), And that tyme there was in Spayne a queene namyd Lupie ...
1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Ferdinand of Arragon (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 248 Hit was saied that bothe the Kynge and the Quyn wold come by the see.
1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Ferdinand of Arragon (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 249 In the liffe of the quyne.
1540c (▸?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 3163 Menelai wife..The grettist of grese and a gai qwhene.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxvv, He made greate purueighance of all thynges necessary for the coronacion of his Quene.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 32 Dew obedience..to kingis, quenis, princes, and prelatis.
1565 Act 8 Eliz. c. 11 §1 The Disfurniture of Service to be done to the Queen's Majesty.
1592 Expos. Terms Law 196 b, Warren is a place priuiledged by prescription or graunt of the Queene for ...