1611 Hall Papers 23 May in H. Stocks (1923) IV. 111 With some allowance towards gownes for everye Almesbodie there.
1660 J. Burroughs 30 A poore Godly Almes-body.
1852 June 334/1 To eke out his pay as an almsbody on the establishment of ‘Blunder's Gift’.
1908 L. L. Duncan 125 The gate next the street was to have a good lock carefully locked every night, and every almsbody was to have a key to that lock.