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​AN ATTEMPT TO DATE


SATAN

APPRENTICE TYLER

JULY 29, 2014


​​PART THE FIRST
​

The Oxford English Dictionary has been consulted for the following words: Satan, Lucifer and Devil. Secondary sources are in red. 

OE  Beowulf 1680
Hit on æht gehwearf aefter deofla hryre Denigea frean.
OE  Beowulf 756
Wolde on heolster fleon, secan deofla gedræg.
OE  Christ & Satan 366
Wæs þæt encgelcyn ær genemned, Lucifer haten, leohtberende.
OE  Crist III 1521
Farað nu, awyrgde, willum biscyrede engla dreames, on ece fir þæt wæs Satane ond his gesiþum mid, deofle gegearwad.
OE  Crist III 1531
Swapeð sigemece mid þære swiðron hond þæt on þæt deope dæl deofol gefeallað in sweartne leg.
OE  Cynewulf Juliana 460
Hyre þæt deofol oncwæð.
OE  Genesis 347 Satan maðelode, sorgiende spræc.800a  Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1457  
Orcus, hel diobul.

825c  Vesp. Hymns xiii. 4
Ðone dioful biswac.
825c  Vesp. Psalter xcv[i]. 5
Forðon alle godas ðioda ðioful, dryhten soðlice heofenas dyde.

950c  Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. ix. 34
In aldormenn diowbla [he] fordrifes diowlas.
960c  Lindisf. Gosp. John vi. 70
Ic iuih tuelfo geceas & of iuh an diul [Rushw. diowul] is.
975c  Rushw. G. Matt. ix. 34
In aldre deofla he ut-weorpeð deoful.
1000a  Solomon & Saturn 122
Him bið þæt deofol laþ.
1000c  West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) viii. 44
Ge synd deofles bearn.
1000c  West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 34
​On deofla ealdre he drifð ut deoflu.

1050  Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) VIII. 320
Þær æfter on þam circule lucifer up arist.

1154a  Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137,
Þa fylden hi mid deoules & yuele men.
1160c  Hatton Gosp. Matt. iv. 5
Ða ȝebrohte se deofel hine on þa halȝan ceastre.
1175a  Cott. Hom. 227
An meȝie cynn þe nefer ne abeah to nane deofel ȝyld.
1175a  Cott. Hom. 237
Al folc ȝede in to þes diefles muðe.
1175c  Lamb. Hom. 87
Ure ifan þet beoð þa deofles beoð bisencte in to helle.
1200?c  Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10565
Deofle flocc.
1200?c  Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1403
Alle þa þatt fellenn swa Þeȝȝ sinndenn laþe deofless.
1200c  Trin. Coll. Hom. 173
Hie iseð bineðen hem deflen þe hem gredeliche kepeð.
1200c  Trin. Coll. Hom. 35
To luste þe defles lore.
1200c  Trin. Coll. Hom. 35
Þa wurhliche weden þe þe dieuel binom ure forme fader adam.
1200c  Trin. Coll. Hom. 39
Ure drihten drof fele deules togedere ut of a man..and þe swin urnen alse deulen hem driuen.
1200c  Trin. Coll. Hom. 69
Witeð ȝe..in þat eche fur þat is ȝarked to deuules and here fereden.

1250c  Moral Ode 98 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 28
Dieð com in þis middenerd þurh þe ealde deofles onde.
1275c (▸?a1200)   Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8817
He..wende anan rihte in-to Winchæstre. swulc hit weore an hali mon þe hæðene deouel [c1300 Otho deauel].

1290c  S. Eng. Leg. I. 245/165
In fourme of a fair womman þe deuel cam heom to.
1290c  S. Eng. Leg. I. 37/104
Þere nis no deuel þat dorre nouþe neiȝ þe come, for drede.
1290c  S. Eng. Leg. I. 372/174
And þe Aungel heom scheuwede al a-brod þene deuel ase huy stude, Þe fourme of a grislich man þat al for-broide were And swarttore þane eueri ani blouȝman..Fuyrie speldene al stinkende out of is mouth he blaste And fuyr of brumston at his nose.
1290c  S. Eng. Leg. I. 62/294
Þat was þe Deuel of helle.
1300?a  XI Pains of Hell 17 in Old Eng. Misc. 147
Wiltu ihere me sathan.
1300a  Cursor Mundi 442
And for þat he was fair and bright, lucifer to nam he hight.

1325c  in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70
Ichot þe cherl is def, þe Del hym to-drawe!

1374c  Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. metr. i. 50
After þat lucifere the day sterre hath chasyd awey the dirke nyht.
1377  Langland Piers Plowman B. ix. 61
For þei seruen sathan her soule shal he haue.
1380c  Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 442
Þen God and þe devell were weddid togedre.
1380c  Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 450
A veyn blast of a fool, and, in cas, of a devyl.
1380c  Wyclif Wks. (1880) 30
Þese nouelries maad of ydiotis & synful wrecchis of lucifers pride.

1382  Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Tim. iv. 1
Ȝyuynge tent to spiritis of errour, and to techingis of deuels.
1382  Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) John x. 20
He hath a deuel, and maddith, or wexith wood.
1382  Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. ix. 34
In the prince of deuelis he castith out deuilis.
1382  Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xvi. 14
Thre vncleene spirites..sotheli thei ben spirites of deuelis, makinge signes.
1382  Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xviii. 2
Greet Babilon fel doun fel doun, and is maad the habitacioun of deuelis [1611 deuils]. (Cf. Isa. xiii. 2.)
1382  Wyclif Acts. xvii. 18
A tellere of newe deuelis [1388 of newe fendis; 1526 Tindale, a tyddynges brynger off new devyls; 1557 Geneva of newe Gods; 1611 of strange gods; 1881 (R.V.) strange gods (Gr. demons)].
1382  Wyclif Matt. xxv. 41
Euer~lastynge fijr, the which is maad redy to the deuyl and his angelis.
1382  Wyclif Psalms cvi. 37 Thei offriden ther sones and ther doȝtris to deuelis. [1611 deuils, 1885 (R.V.) demons. So Deut.xxxii. 17].
1382  Wyclif Psalms cviii. [cix.] 6
Sett vp on hym a synere; and the deuell stonde at his riȝt side [1535 Coverdale, Let Satan stonde at his right hande; 1611 Satan, margin. or, an aduersary; 1885 (R.V.) adversary, margin. Or Satan, or an accuser].
1382  Wyclif Rev. ix. 20
Thei worschipeden not deuels, and simulacres golden, treenen, the whiche nether mowen see, nether heere, nether wandre.
1382  Wyclif Rev. xii. 9
And the ilke dragoun is cast doun, the greet olde serpent, that is clepid the Deuel.
1382▸a  Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxiv. 14
And aȝen come shul deueles [a1425 fendis], the beste party an asse, and a party a man.

1393  Langland Piers Plowman C. xxii. 21
For alle deorke deoueles dreden hit to huyre.
1400a (▸a1325)   Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11759
Alle þo deueles [Vesp. idels, Fairf. mawmettes] in a stounde Grouelynge fel to þe grounde.
1400a (1325)   Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12023
Þou wreche sede o felunny! Werck o dred, sun o sathan [Fairf. saton, Gött.sathane, Trin. Cambr. sathone].
1400a (1325)   Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19884
For-sakes þou sathan [Gött. sathane, Trin. Cambr. satone].

1400c  Rom. Rose 4288
An olde vecke..The which devel, in hir enfaunce Hadde lerned of Loves arte.

1425a (▸c1395)   Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job xxxviii. 32
Whether thou bryngist forth Lucifer, that is dai sterre, in his tyme.

1425c  Cast. Persev. 552 in Macro Plays 93
Be Satan, þou art a nobyl knawe to techyn men fyrst fro goode!
1430c  Hymns Virg. (1867) 121
Develyn schall com oute off helle.
1450?c  Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7170
Oft to gydir þai did euill, And gaf occasion to þe deuill.
1450c  J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 364
Hyt ys a sleghþe of the del.
1450c  Mirour Saluacioun 4377
With feendes and lucifere..in helle.
1488 (1478)   Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 407
At thus with wrang thir dewillis suld bruk our land.
1500c  Melusine (1895) xxxvi. 256
Ayeynst this strong dyuell I ne may withstand.

1509  S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 136
Some develles wyll theyr husbandes bete.

1530  J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2
Divell
she, diablesse.
1535a  Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 402
To forsake the diuel and all his works.
1535a  Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 428
Thou shalt pay thine owne debtes amongest the diuils in hell.
1540c (▸?a1400)   Destr. Troy 4392
Þe folke..vnder daunger of þe dule droupet full longe.

1548  N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John 73 b,
He hathe the Deuell (say they) and is madde.
1549  J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. B3v,
That presumption of challengynge Goddes seate, doth shewe you to haue bene Lucifers, and..god wyll punyshe you like Lucifers.
1550  J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Givv, Dyuers Bysshoppes of Rome beynge Annabaptystes, heretyques, scismatiques, & chyldren of Sathan.
1553  T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 1
His..Lucifer~like pride.

1555  W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 210
He..abolished all worshippe of deuilles.
1563  N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 118
Ane terribill cumpany of dewlis hastalie apperand to him.
1563  W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 10v,
There was newes come to London, that the Deuill..was seene flyinge ouer the Temmes.
1567  Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 10
To saue vs... Fra Sathanis subteltie and slycht.
1567  Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 175
Proude Lucifer, the greit maister of hell.
1571c  E. Campion 2 Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. iv. 18
Soe wee saie..dile for divill.

1576  A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 277
As mad as the divel of hell.
1577  B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 46v,
Where a man must deale with the Deuil.
1579  W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 305
What Lucifer is that, that wil oppose him selfe against the flatt commaundement of the holie ghost.
1581  J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 219
With such an incredible inordinate desire of luciferlike superioritie.
1585  T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 87
Vntill such time as the day starre spring & Lucifer do rise in our hearts.
1596  W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. l. 231
Yea, too blasphemous, they incroch vpon the Deitie, Though of these Lucifers haue been that perish through a Flie.
1598  Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 468
That villanous abhominable misleader of youth, Falstalffe, that olde white bearded Sathan.
1599  Master Broughtons Lett. viii. 26
You Cynosura and Lucifer of nations, the stupor and admiration of the world.
1600  Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 97
The deuill can cite Scripture for his purpose.

1602  W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 9 How many Sathans and begotten of the diuell did he tearme them?
1602?  Narcissus (Rawl. Poet. 212) (1893) 330
The haire of the faire queene of devills.

1604  Canons Ecclesiastical lxxii,
Neither shal any Minister not licensed..attempt..to cast out any deuill or deuils.
1604  King James VI & I Counter-blaste to Tobacco sig. B2,
Why do we not denie God and adore the Deuill, as they doe?
1605  Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. § 6
That olde slaunder of early holines; A young Saint, an olde Deuill: sometimes young Deuils haue prooued olde Saints; neuer the contrary.
1605  Z. Jones tr. P. le Loyer Treat. Specters (title-page),
The Nature of Spirites, Angels, and Divels.
1607  E. Topsell Hist. Fovre-footed Beastes 12
The Satyres a most rare and seldome seene Beast, hath occasioned other to thinke it was a Deuill... And it may be that Deuils haue at some time appeared to men in this likenes.]
1609  Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 20,
I haue said my prayers and diuell Enuie say Amen.
1609  Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 55
How the diuell Luxury..tickles together.
1611  Bible (A.V.) John vi. 70
Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuill?
1611  Bible (A.V.) John x. 20
He hath a deuill and is mad.
1616a  Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 55,
I charge thee Sathan, hous'd within this man, To yeeld possession to my holie praiers.
1616a  Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 16
Let's write good Angell on the Deuills horne 'Tis not the Deuills Crest.
1616a  Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 289
It hath pleasde the Diuell drunkennesse, to giue place to the Diuell wrath.
1616a  Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 142
Thou doest bely her, and thou art a diuell.
1616a  Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 199
Thou most excellent diuell of wit.
1618a  W. Raleigh in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 89
Although they be perpetual Lucifers, they must always be Angels, and live in plenty.

1622  T. Gataker Spirituall Watch (ed. 2) 54
No marvaile if Sin and Sathan finde free entrance at will.
1623  Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 372
And when he falles, he falles like Lucifer, Neuer to hope againe.
1625  S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. 571
His Pride is such, as may teach Lucifer.
1632  W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 404
The Italians swore, I was a Divell and not a man.
1638  T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 302
The Samoreen..black as the devill, and as treacherous.
1638  T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 335 70
Temples, wherein they number 3333..little guilded Devils.
1638  T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 335
This Devill (or Molech) is of concave copper..double guilded.
1642  T. Fuller Holy State v. xvii. 426
Devils in flesh antedate hell in inventing torments.
1645  Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn vi, in Poems 4
The Stars..will not take their flight, For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence.
1646a  J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 96
This Lilith was..a kinde of shee-Divel which killed Children.
1651  J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul p. xxix, in P. Sarpi Hist. Council of Trent (1676) , An Angel in his behaviour, and a Devil..in the Mathematicks.
1652a  R. Brome Queenes Exchange ii. iii, in Wks. (1873) III. 490
He looks So damnably as if the Divel were at my elbow.
1656a  Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 18
The ejection of Divells by fasting and prayer.

1667  Milton Paradise Lost i. 373
Devils to adore for Deities.
1667  Milton Paradise Lost vii. 131
Lucifer..So call him, brighter once amidst the Host Of Angels, then that Starr the Starrs among.
1668a  W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) v. 67
A thousand Sathans take all good luck.
1680a  J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 136
The Devil..appeared to her in the shape of a handsome Man, and after of a black Dog.
1680a  J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 292
Declares that the Devil in the shape of a black man lay with her in the Bed..that his Feet were cloven.

1683  J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 383
The Press-man sometimes has a Week-Boy to Take Sheets, as they are Printed off the Tympan: These Boys do in a Printing-House, commonly black and Dawb themselves: whence the Workmen do Jocosely call them Devils; and sometimes Spirits, and sometimes Flies.
1685  R. Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Matt. xvi. 23
To hinder us in God's work and mens Salvation, is to be Satans to us. O how many Satans then are called reverend Fathers, who silence and persecute men for God's work.
1688a  J. Bunyan Jerusalem-sinner Saved (1886) 103
We in all likelihood are to possess the very places from which the Satans by transgression fell.

1698  J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iv. v. 180
The visible appearance of a Devil or Dæmon which they say is common among them.
1698  tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 160
The poor Devil was condemned to have his head chopped off.

1701  D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 10
Ingratitude, a Devil of Black Renown.
1709  R. Steele Tatler No. 31. ⁋13 Mr. Bickerstaff's Messenger, or (as the Printers call him) Devil, going to the Press.
1726  W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. Boyle 82
Thou Devil! said he to Susan, and hast thou betray'd me..?
1738  Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 97
That would have been a Match of the Devil's making.
1744  M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 148
Lucifer displays His beaming forehead thro' the gates of morn.
1753  S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. i. 9,
I called her a little Satan.
1764a  R. Lloyd Dialogue in Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 4
And in the morning when I stir, Pop comes a Devil ‘Copy Sir’.

1768  L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 95,
I am apt to be taken..when a poor devil comes to offer his service to so poor a devil as myself.
1772  J. W. Fletcher Third Check Antinom. 94
A fall into pride may drive me nearer Lucifer.
1774  O. Goldsmith Retaliation 57
So provoking a Devil was Dick.
1775  R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iv,
An ill-tempered little devil! She'll be in a passion all her life.
1791  J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 387
​He had married a printer's devil... J. Reynolds: ‘I thought a printer's devil was a creature with a black face and in rags.’ Johnson: ‘Yes, Sir. But I suppose, he had her face washed, and put clean clothes on her.’

The following is the about list with the secondary sources removed.  As the Wycliffe Bible was not published until the early 19th century, we consider it a secondary source.

OE   Hit on æht gehwearf aefter deofla hryre Denigea frean.
OE  Wolde on heolster fleon, secan deofla gedræg.
OE  Wæs þæt encgelcyn ær genemned, Lucifer haten, leohtberende.
OE   Farað nu, awyrgde, willum biscyrede engla dreames, on ece fir þæt wæs Satane ond his gesiþum mid, deofle gegearwad.
OE  Swapeð sigemece mid þære swiðron hond þæt on þæt deope dæl deofol gefeallað in sweartne leg.
OE  Hyre þæt deofol oncwæð.
OE   Satan maðelode, sorgiende spræc.800a  Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1457  Orcus, hel diobul.

825c  Ðone dioful biswac.
825c   Forðon alle godas ðioda ðioful, dryhten soðlice heofenas dyde.

950c   In aldormenn diowbla [he] fordrifes diowlas.
960c   Ic iuih tuelfo geceas & of iuh an diul [Rushw. diowul] is.
975c   In aldre deofla he ut-weorpeð deoful.
1000a   Him bið þæt deofol laþ.
1000c   Ge synd deofles bearn.
1000c   On deofla ealdre he drifð ut deoflu.

1154a   Þa fylden hi mid deoules & yuele men.
1160c   Ða ȝebrohte se deofel hine on þa halȝan ceastre.
1175a  An meȝie cynn þe nefer ne abeah to nane deofel ȝyld.
1175a  Al folc ȝede in to þes diefles muðe.
1175c   Ure ifan þet beoð þa deofles beoð bisencte in to helle.
1200?c Deofle flocc.
1200?c  Alle þa þatt fellenn swa Þeȝȝ sinndenn laþe deofless.
1200c  Hie iseð bineðen hem deflen þe hem gredeliche kepeð.
1200c   To luste þe defles lore.
1200c  Þa wurhliche weden þe þe dieuel binom ure forme fader adam.
1200c   Ure drihten drof fele deules togedere ut of a man..and þe swin urnen alse deulen hem driuen.
1200c  Witeð ȝe..in þat eche fur þat is ȝarked to deuules and here fereden.

1290c   In fourme of a fair womman þe deuel cam heom to.
1290c  Þere nis no deuel þat dorre nouþe neiȝ þe come, for drede.
1290c  And þe Aungel heom scheuwede al a-brod þene deuel ase huy stude, Þe fourme of a grislich man þat al for-broide were And swarttore þane eueri ani blouȝman..Fuyrie speldene al stinkende out of is mouth he blaste And fuyr of brumston at his nose.
1290c  Þat was þe Deuel of helle.
1300?a   Wiltu ihere me sathan.
1300a  And for þat he was fair and bright, lucifer to nam he hight.

Number of primary references before the year 1300:  33

1374c   After þat lucifere the day sterre hath chasyd awey the dirke nyht.
1377  For þei seruen sathan her soule shal he haue.
1393   For alle deorke deoueles dreden hit to huyre.
1400c   An olde vecke..The which devel, in hir enfaunce Hadde lerned of Loves arte.

Number of primary references between the years 1301 and 1400: 4

1425c  Be Satan, þou art a nobyl knawe to techyn men fyrst fro goode!
1450c  Hyt ys a sleghþe of the del.
1450c   With feendes and lucifere..in helle.

Number of primary references between the years 1401 and 1500: 3

1530  Divell she, diablesse.
1548   He hathe the Deuell (say they) and is madde.
1549 ...challengynge Goddes seate, doth shewe you to haue bene Lucifers, and..god wyll... like Lucifers.
1550  Givv, Dyuers Bysshoppes of Rome beynge Annabaptystes, heretyques, scismatiques, & chyldren of Sathan.
1555  He..abolished all worshippe of deuilles.
1563  There was newes come to London, that the Deuill..was seene flyinge ouer the Temmes.
1576  As mad as the divel of hell.
1577  , Where a man must deale with the Deuil.
1579  What Lucifer is that, that wil oppose him selfe against the flatt commaundement of the holie ghost.
1581  With such an incredible inordinate desire of luciferlike superioritie.
1585  Vntill such time as the day starre spring & Lucifer do rise in our hearts.
1596  ...Though of these Lucifers haue been that perish through a Flie.
1598  That villanous abhominable misleader of youth, Falstalffe, that olde white bearded Sathan.
1599   You Cynosura and Lucifer of nations, the stupor and admiration of the world.
1600   The deuill can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Number of primary references between the years 1501 and 1600: 15

1602  How many Sathans and begotten of the diuell did he tearme them?
1604  Canons Ecclesiastical lxxii, Neither shal any Minister not licensed..attempt..to cast out any deuill or deuils.
1604   Why do we not denie God and adore the Deuill, as they doe?
1605   That olde slaunder of early holines; A young Saint, an olde Deuill: sometimes young Deuils haue...
1605   The Nature of Spirites, Angels, and Divels.
1607  ...to thinke it was a Deuill... And it may be that Deuils haue at some time appeared to men in this likenes.]
1609   I haue said my prayers and diuell Enuie say Amen.
1609   How the diuell Luxury..tickles together.
1611  Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuill?
1611  He hath a deuill and is mad.
1622  No marvaile if Sin and Sathan finde free entrance at will.
1623  And when he falles, he falles like Lucifer, Neuer to hope againe.
1625  His Pride is such, as may teach Lucifer.
1632   The Italians swore, I was a Divell and not a man.
1638  The Samoreen..black as the devill, and as treacherous.
1638   Temples, wherein they number 3333..little guilded Devils.
1638  This Devill (or Molech) is of concave copper..double guilded.
1642   Devils in flesh antedate hell in inventing torments.
1645  The Stars..will not take their flight, For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence.
1667   Devils to adore for Deities.
1667  Lucifer..So call him, brighter once amidst the Host Of Angels, then that Starr the Starrs among.
1685  To hinder us in God's work and mens Salvation, is to be Satans to us. O how many Satans...
1698   The visible appearance of a Devil or Dæmon which they say is common among them.
1698   The poor Devil was condemned to have his head chopped off.

Number of primary references between the years 1601 and 1700: 24

1701  Ingratitude, a Devil of Black Renown.
1726  Thou Devil! said he to Susan, and hast thou betray'd me..?
1738   That would have been a Match of the Devil's making.
1744  Lucifer displays His beaming forehead thro' the gates of morn.
1753  I called her a little Satan.
1768  I am apt to be taken..when a poor devil comes to offer his service to so poor a devil as myself.
1772  A fall into pride may drive me nearer Lucifer.
1774  So provoking a Devil was Dick.
1775   An ill-tempered little devil! She'll be in a passion all her life.

Number of primary references between the years 1701 and 1800: 9

Conclusion to Part the First

With 33 primary references before the year 1300, we are tempted to state that Satan was well established in England. Unfortunately, the concerns with the correct dates of these manuscripts are similar to the concerns with Wycliffe, that is, historians state that Wycliffe lived in the 14th century, but the first printing of his Bible is not until the 19th century, so Wycliffe can be placed anywhere before that time, therefore, the dating of Wycliffe is problematic. (vide Christian Heresies at the  under Wycliffe).
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With only seven primary references fro the years 1301-1500, Satan seems to have fallen out of favor with the English people.  In the 15th century, Satan's popularity rises to 15 references and in the 16th century Satan culminates with 24 primary references. 

Because of the limitations mentioned above, we will end our research on the adjective for the Devil, devilish. We expect the adjective to appear relatively close to the appearance of the noun. If we are disappointed by that "devilish" only appears in 1496, then we are surely disappointed that "devilish" and "diabolical"  appear, for all purposes, at the same time (1496, 1504).

1496c  Serm. Episc. Puer. (W. de W.) B iij,
...rmentes, & deuyllysshe shoon & slyppers of frensmen.

1504?  S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. bb.ivv,
Be neuer taken in dyabolycall engyne.
1513a  R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxv. f. xxiiiv,
... & deuyllysshe persones.
1526  Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. iv. 1
Geue hede vnto spretes of erroure and dyuelysshe doctrine.
1526  W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. aiiii,
Whiche is most deuyllysshe synne.
1546  T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vii. vii. 141 b,
...is not one so diabolical as the ...
1547c  H. Latimer Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1351/2
As your naturals, and diabolicals ...
1548  Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxiiijv,
... a..sorceresse, and a diabolical blasphemeresse of God.
1548  Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxvv,
Therto by deuilishe instigacion incensed and procured.
1553  R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cviijv,
They make certayne deuylishe gestures ...
1555  H. Latimer Serm. (1845) 301
What marvel is it, if they call you devilish persons and heretics?
1562  W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. lxxvv,
...Ingratitude [is] sprong of a deuelishe petigree.
1587  G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 76v,
The diuelish Queenes deuise.

1603  Contin. Adv. Don Sebastian in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 400
... to be diabolical or merely fantastical.
1612  S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts 14
Because we finde ...Mony makes fooles most diuellish proud...
1616a  Shakespeare Othello (1623) ii. i. 245
A diuelish knaue!
1631  W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §94. 360
The matchlesse, merciless, devilish, and damnable...
1634  T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 8
...esteemed of amongst these Deuillish Sauages.
1639  J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 241
It is a divellish, deadly, coarse medicine.
1640a  P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iv. iii. 46
The cur is Divelishe hungrie.
1651  T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 370
Hee was commonly thought a Magician, and his Art Diabolicall.
1651  T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xii. §10. 175
The most ancient of all diabolicall tentations...
1653  H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxviii. 113
Who..censed those two divelish Monsters.
1663  Youths Behaviour (ed. 8) 87
'Tis of humane frailty to erre, but 'tis devillish to persevere in it.
1664  H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity iv. 10
This Mystery..that is so horrid, and Diabolical, and so ...
1688  R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 198/2
[Lice] are devilish Biters, especially the little ones.
1692  R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxxi. 289
The Devillish People would keep such a Snearing, ...

1706?  E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iii. 29
Such a Devilish-like Black-guard.
1709  Steele & Swift Tatler No. 68. ⁋1
... from a real Dislike of Virtue, but a diabolical Prejudice against it.
1719  D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 350
Taking Devilish long Strides.
1738  Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 187
Mr. Neverout got the devilishest Fall in the Park Today.
1752  S. Foote Taste i. 5
Daubing diabolical Angels for Alehouses.
1777a  S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) i. 15
...devilish ... devilish.., devilish ugly, devilish handsome.
1789  G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 321
...to write the annals of that diabolical castle.
1790  R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 127 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 561
By some devilish cantraip slight.
1796  H. Hunter tr. J. H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 409
If a God... Nature, diabolical spirits ...
1800  E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 101
​Hold your devilish tongue.

Conclusion to Part the Second

We are confident that "devilish" and "diabolical" can be dated to the 16th century.  The Gentle Reader may question how the English language possessed the named for the "Devil", but did not create an adjective describing him and we will refrain from speculating. 

Part the Third

The following list consists only of the dates and the words "devilish" and "diabolical".
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1496c 
1504?
1513a  
1526   
1526   
1546   
1547c  
1548   
1548 
1553   
1555   
1562   
1587  
1603  
1612   
1616a  
1631   
1634  
deuyllysshe.
dyabolycall.
deuyllysshe
dyuelysshe.
deuyllysshe.
diabolical 
diabolicals
diabolical.
deuilishe .
deuylishe.
devilish
deuelishe 
diuelish .
diabolical .
diuellish.
diuelish
devilish,.
Deuillish .
1639
1640
1651    
1651    
1653   
1663   
1664   
1688  
1692   
1706?   
1709   
1719   
1738  
1752   
1777a 
1789  
1790   
1796   
1800 
divellish, 
Divelishe 
Diabolicall.
diabolicall 
divelish
devillish 
Diabolical, 
devilish 
Devillish
Devilish
diabolical
Devilish
devilishest .
diabolical 
devilish
diabolical
devilish
diabolical 
devilish 
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Conclusion to Part the Third

The list immediately shows two results: the variant spellings of "devilish" are consistent with our experience researching 16th century English (doubled consonants) and the almost consistent spelling of "diabolical".  We find it strange that the English can not spell a native word, but are almost in agreement of the French loanword.  The two examples from 1651 show Hobbes did not know the spelling of "diabolical", other abilities not withstanding. 
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As previously mentioned, the manuscripts purported to be of high antiquity can not be reliably dated, therefore the best that we can do is assign them to a time before the year 1500.  We find it that the "devilish" does not have a longer pedigree than the loanword "diabolical". 

Because the introduction of "devilish" and "diabolical" are contemporary, we must come to reasonable, and unenviable, conclusion that the French introduced Satan into England in the late 16th century.
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