c.1450, The Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers:
And thanne he seide to other folkes that thei shulde seye somme goode thinges for to recomforte the lordes and the people, which werne in grete trouble as for the deth of the moste noble kinge that ever was.
1469, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters:
And she rehearsed what she had said, and said if tho words made it not sure she said boldly that she would make it surer ere than she went thence; for she said she thought in her conscience she was bound, whatsoever the words wern.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene.[…], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 32: