free denizenn.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Aiv ^v Here to be made of a straunger a free denisen.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 151 (margin) Cæsar had made many that came from Gallia transalpina, free denizens in Rome.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1348/2 Peter Moris free denison, hauing made an engine for that purpose.

a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1673) III. 619 As often as any good or harm did happen to any Citizen or Free-denizon thereof.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 21) iii. 88 Naturalized by Jacob, and made free Denisons of the Church.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 168 He being from an Hobsy Cophir made a free Denizen.

1711 F. Hare Reception Palatines Vindicated 9 Their chief Pastor, Rodolph Cavalier,..to whom the King now granted the Priviledge of being made a Free Denizen.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 230 The ‘good town of Edinburgh’, of which we are become free denizens and guild brothers.

1850 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art, & Sci. 1 Dec. 32/1 The clouds themselves—the rapid sportive clouds, free denizens of the sky, and playmates of the wind and sunbeam.

1885 C. W. Baird Hist. Huguenot Emigration Amer. I. v. 271 John Toton..was a free denizen of Virginia ‘by my Lord of Effingham's favour’.

1908 E. Channing Hist. U.S. (1913) II. i. 28 Section 2 of the same act provides that no alien or person born without the allegiance of the king and not naturalized or given the rights of a free denizen could trade in the plantations.

1979 T. M. Endelman Jews Georgian Eng. i. 25 The only alternative for a foreignborn Jew was to be made a free denizen by the purchase of royal letters patent.

1996 L. H. Yungblut Strangers settled Here Amongst Us iii. 91 In June [1578], the Queen amended the earlier precept, ordering that strangers from the Low Countries who were not free denizens should not be charged.