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OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 43 Hi ða twegen getreowfæste wæron.., þas halgan martyrrace..on anum leadenum tabulan [L. in paginis plumbeis] ealle mid stafon agrofon, and hi ðæt gewrit mid twam sylfrenan inseglum on anre teage geinsegledon.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. xiv. 17 Thei wryten to hym in brasen tablis [L. in tabulis aereis].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 257 (MED) Charles..bare a peyre of tables for to write ynne.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11087 Þam asked þan sir zachari Tables and a pontel tite.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 25 He took a peyre tables, and wroot in þe wax al his desir.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxviii. sig. Hiv Ye must search Angles of position agayne, and marke them in the table or slate.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. C2 Draw your tables, and write what wise I speake.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. iii. 56 in Wks. II I saw one of you buy a paire of tables, e'en now.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 66 These things are imprinted and formed in her as in a Table.

1789–96 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. II. 27 The old..manner of writing, before the use of paper of any kind, and waxen tables, was known.

1829 T. Skidmore Rights of Man to Property iv. 132 Where, is the table of wax? Where is the record in marble? Is title engraved on the surface of the earth?

1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. i. iii. 381 They..write on tables messages that mean Nothing or anything—just as we wish.

1987 M. B. Garber Shakespeare's Ghost Writers vi. 150 The writing tables, then, must take the place of another kind of ‘table’ in Hamlet, the table at which one eats and drinks.