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1574 Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. cxcv For all their subscribings, there was no skirmishe, where some off those subscribers left nor [perh. read not] their karkaises in the filde.

1583 J. Craig Short Summe Whole Catech. f. 45^v The names of all the subscribers contained in the principall copie, written in parchment, and kept in the hands of the Ministers.

1651 J. Drew (title) The Northern Subscribers plea vindicated from the exceptions laid against it by the non-subscribing Ministers of Lancashire and Cheshire.

1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 554 It was reported the subscribers [to an Address] were above 1000.

1717 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 335 The subscribers of that choice and invitation of a minister.

1789 J. Madison Let. 5 Dec. in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 294 The letter was written by the first subscriber of it.

1810 Universal Mag. May 421/1 Among the subscribers to the Liverpool petition appeared the names of Mr. Roscoe and Mr. Shepherd.

1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 223 A minority of the subscribers of the memorandum of association.

1912 W. B. Selbie Nonconformity ix. 163 When..an attempt was made to obtain the assent of those present to a declaration of belief in the Doctrines of the Trinity and of the Divinity of our Lord, the company at once divided into subscribers and non-subscribers.

1986 Vigiliae Christianae 40 19 One of the subscribers of the letter..was an Alexandrian priest called Silvanus.

2008 J. H. Smith Perfect Rule Christian Relig. i. 21 The presbytery required its members to sign the Formula of 1711, which bound subscribers to that document as a confession of their own faith.

1653 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Other 50 Psalmes 127 Subscribers to the justice of God, who will not suffer malicious cruelty to be unpunished.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 131 I am a modest subscriber to your and other Wise-mens better judgments.

1781 Monthly Rev. July 45 An admirer of his wit and humour and a subscriber to his law, must be equally fatigued and disgusted.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. 222 It was as undoubting subscribers to this moral law, that Fielding wrote and Hogarth painted.

1885 United Methodist Free Churches' Mag. May 312 One need not be a subscriber to his eschatological views to recognise his unique excellence as a Commentator.

1938 E. C. Mack Public Schools & Brit. Opinion iii. ii. 253 He was..a subscriber to the notion of the essential evil of human nature.

1998 R. L. Arrington Western Ethics ix. 231 He articulates a view that has many subscribers in eighteenth-century and subsequent British philosophy: utilitarianism.

2009 C. Harrison Head over Heel 107 Umberto Bossi..is a high-profile subscriber to this view.

1671 (title) At a generall meeting of all the subscribers to the stock of the Royal Company, holden at Drapers-Hall.

?1674 M. Poole Advt. conc. 4th Pt. Synopsis Criticorum (single sheet) Though it were in truth but One Volume, and might be bound up together, yet the most of the Subscribers would probably binde it in Two.

1721 J. Swift Bubble 12 Each poor Subscriber to the Sea, Sinks down at once.

1732 A. Pope True Narr. what passed in London in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. 255 Mr. Whiston held his Lecture near the Royal Exchange, to an Audience of Fourteen worthy Citizens, his Subscribers and constant Hearers.

1772 T. Mortimer Elements Commerce, Politics & Finances 362 The original proprietors, or subscribers to the fund which formed the capital of the Bank of England.

1784 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) III. v. iii. 132 Provided the subscribers were erected into a new East India company.

1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 359 By giving to a one guinea subscriber a privilege equal to that which is enjoyed by a three guinea subscriber.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. iii. viii. 203 The Draw should be conducted on the following plan: first, the money for each stake should be paid to the secretary by the subscribers.

1898 C. Fraser-Mackintosh Acct. Confeder. Clan Chattan Pref. p. vi My best acknowledgments are due..to Mr. John Mackay, the publisher, for the really handsome manner in which the book has been issued to subscribers.

1918 J. M. Groves in R. P. Wilder Red Triangle in Changing Nations iv. 73 Buildings and site together have cost $370,000 (gold), provided by generous subscribers in America and the islands.

1976 J. Lukasiewicz Railway Game 18 Another charter was drawn up by the government in February, 1873,..mentioning as subscribers Allan and other Canadians who were members of the two old companies.

2007 C. MacLeod Heroes of Invention 391 Many subscribers to the Manchester memorial specifically cited their gratitude to Turing for his wartime role in breaking the German Navy's Enigma codes.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 74 I was in for a list of blunders, and could not help making you a subscriber.

1725 Dublin Weekly Jrnl. 24 Apr. 16/2 This Journal will be published every Saturday, and Subscribers living in Town shall have them sent to them early, at a British Crown per Ann.

1769 London Mag. June 283/1 The subscribers to the London Magazine are here presented with a critical examination of the two new pieces now exhibiting at Mr. Foote's in the Haymarket.

1803 J. G. Lemaistre Rough Sketch Mod. Paris 255 The most distinguished of these [literary institutions]..consists of annual subscribers, who, for the moderate sum of four louis, enjoy all its benefits.

1828 Monthly Repos. Mar. 216 A Subscriber asks, whether any of our Correspondents can furnish him with a list of sermons for reading in a family, whose sentiments are completely Humanitarian.

1878 (title) List of subscribers (Bell Telephone Co. of N.Y.).

1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. x. 76 To be an established subscriber to the Burial Club was evidence of good character and social spirit.

1934 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 272 The telephone bells of all the subscribers would start ringing.

1971 T. Ledbetter in C. Tate Cable Television in Cities 7/2 Cable subscribers in an isolated Pennsylvania town..actually got better reception..than people living in Philadelphia.

2004 High Country News 16 Aug. 22/2 I have seen whole articles spiked by editors fearing a backlash from publishers, subscribers or advertisers.

1865 Rep. Comm. Long Room (N.Y. Stock Exchange Board) (N.Y. Stock Exchange Archives) 25 Nov. 2 As the Public before parting with their money might very reasonably ask that they should know the conditions affixed to their occupation of the room, it is recommended that they have free access hereto until the Board determines the Rules to which as subscribers they will be required to conform.

1885 N.-Y. Times 25 Mar. 8/4 The subscribers, who formerly had the run of the entire room, as well as of the lobby, must now keep entirely outside of the railing.

1899 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Feb. 193/2 Strangers are never admitted to the floor of the Exchange... There is, however, what is known as the subscribers' room—a strip of floor divided from the main floor by a railing—and admission to this..costs one hundred dollars a year.

1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Subscriber,..formerly [in the New York Stock Exchange], a speculator who, being a nonmember, was allowed on the floor of the exchange outside of a certain rail.

1981 Network Name Change is in Effect in net.general (Usenet newsgroup) 12 May I have renamed all the arpanet newsgroups from NET.whatever to fa.whatever... If you are a subscriber to one or more of the above, you should use netnews -s to change your subscription.

1994 A. Gaffin Everybody's Guide Internet v. 79 On a mailing list you send your messages to a central moderator, who..uses it to compile a periodic ‘digest’ mailed to subscribers.

2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 10 Nov. 62 The world doesn't seem such a lonely place for newsgroup subscribers.

2011 J. Cockrum Free Marketing liii. 182 Make it as easy as possible for new subscribers to join your mailing list.