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c1379 in G. D. MacRae Early Sc. Texts (1975) No. 1 The qvylk payment sa made I will at the landys be haldyn eftyr the tenovr of the ald charterys..in the wytnes of the qvylk thing to this presens I haf set my seyl.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 9 It is also seid a sawteer, þe whiche name it tooc of a Musik instrument: þat ebruly is clepid nablum.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 9434 Þe first law was cald ‘of kinde,’..Þe toþer has ‘possitiue’ to name, þe whilk lawe was for-bed Adam, Forto ete þat fruit.

1419 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 502 Þe qwhilkis Indentours þe forsaid Nychole has delyuerit till þe sayd abbot and Conuent..qwhile at þai be fullely assythit of þe said fowrty pvnd.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. x. 10 By the which will we are sanctified.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 466 There was a lionesse which had whelpes in her den, the which den was obserued by a Beare, the which Beare on a day finding the den vnfortified..entred..and slew the Lions whelpes.

a1824 Ld. Byron Wks. (1842) 193/1 Finished copying August..1820; the which copying makes ten times the toil of composing.

1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in Early Ital. Poets ii. 297 Of the which thing I bethought me to speak unto her.