a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 369 Þey usede large cloþes and longe, and specialliche lynnen cloþes, as Englisshe Saxons were i-woned to use, i-hiȝt with brood laces i-weve wiþ dyvers coloures.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. v. 63 For this purpose serue the monosillables of our English Saxons excellently well.

1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vii. ii. 197/1 The originall parent, place, and name of our English Saxons, haue bin written with a pen of slight touch vpon the leaues of obliuion.

1700 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 23 Of Sixty thousand English Gentlemen, Whose Names and Arms in Registers remain, We challenge all our Heralds to declare Ten Families which English-Saxons are.

1783 Acct. Rise Soc. Discharge & Relief Persons imprisoned for Small Debts (ed. 6) 57 A procedure..so opposite to the law and constitution of England, whose founders, the English Saxons, knew not the practice.

1800 Butler's Lives Saints (new ed.) XII. 193 Mayo founded by St Gerald, an English saxon [sic], who accompanied St. Colman from Lindisfarne into Ireland.

1839 G. Godwin & J. Britton Churches of London II. 2 Botolph, to whom it was dedicated, was an English Saxon renowned for his piety.

1910 S. J. Low & F. S. Pulling Dict. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) 49/2 We cannot easily escape the necessity of construing Ongol-Saxe, Angul-Seaxe, and Angul-Saxones into ‘English Saxons’.

1996 F. D. Reno Hist. King Arthur vi. 179 The circumference included Cirencester as the hub,..and the entire Cornovii territory as a tempestuous battleground for the Britons and English Saxons.

2004 D. Crystal Stories of Eng. i. 27 The phrase Angli Saxones, used at least from the eighth century to mean the ‘English Saxons’ (of Britain) as opposed to the ‘Old Saxons’ (of the Continent).

a1669 W. Somner Draft Pref. Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum (Canterbury Cathedral Arch. MS CCA-DCc-ChAnt/M/352) Studious, either of the Teutonick antiquities, or of that ancient tongues original, wherein our english-saxon doth partake with it, as being both originally the same, although with some variation & diversity in point of dialect.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 47 Some of us can preach, in English-Saxon, in Norman French, and even in Monk-Latin.

1992 W. P. Lehmann Hist. Linguistics (ed. 3) iv. 81 To distinguish ‘English Saxon’ from the Old Saxon maintained on the continent, Old English was formerly referred to as Anglo-Saxon, but this designation is passing out of use.

1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie iii. f. 56^v It is euident that our english Saxon tounge was not at that time vnderstanded at Rome.

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 14 The English-Saxon conquerors, altred the tongue which they found here wholly.

1695 Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. 33 As all his English-Saxon predecessors.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 11 Under all the English Saxon Kings.

1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. 309 Our English-Saxon word evil seems to spring from the same source.

1827 F. S. White Hist. Inventions 107 We find that Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, in the commencement of the eighth century made an English Saxon version of the psalms.

1929 T. Shepherd & J. Elmes London in 19th Cent. (1968) 155 The parish church of St Botolph, Bishopsgate, appears to be of very ancient foundation, dedicated to St. Botolph, an English Saxon Saint, who died about the year 680.

1984 Times 15 Sept. 32/4 The last mortal remains of Edward the Martyr, English Saxon king and saint, must reside in the purgatorial transit lounge of a bank vault.

2001 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 19 Apr. 17 Easter is an old English-Saxon pagan spring festival and has nothing to do with the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus.