Usage examples (8)

• By John Lee, your faithful bedeman, and canon of the said monastery of Wigmore.
• And so hath your bedeman been at liberty now twelve months waiting daily from term to term, and nothing laid to his charge as before.
• Betwixt Michaelmas and Allhalloween tide next after his coming to prison there was taken from your bedeman a Greek vocabulary, price five shillings;
• Barclay's use of "Capellanus humilimus" in his dedication was merely a polite expression, and that Kyrkham, of whom he styles himself, "His true seruytour his chaplayne and...