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1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 1st Roll §53. m. 18 I, Henry of Lancastr'..am disendit be right lyne of the blode comyng fro the gude lorde Kyng Henry therde.

c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 254 Of kynges blood of Perce is she descended.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 64 For holicherches good moot been despended On holicherches blood þ^t is descended.

?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) 27 742 So lynyall of his generacioun Ye bene discent.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. ii. 54 O ȝe dowr pepil discend from Dardanus.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 82 b Sayd to bee descended of Gentlemen.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxii. 674 If a dog be not wel descended..there can be little hope of his goodnesse.

1652 Laughing Mercury No. 30. 234 Am I not, quoth he, descended from the loines of Mighty Tamberlain? was not my Grandfather a Dutchess, and my Grandmother a Count? was not my Mother a Marquess?

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 78. ⁋8 We are descended of ancient Families.

1748 H. Walpole Let. 11 Aug. (1941) IX. 67 I am arrived at great knowledge in the annals of the house of Vere, but though I have twisted and twined their genealogy and my own a thousand ways, I cannot discover..that I am descended from them.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 357 Such other collateral relations as were descended from the person who first acquired it.

1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 799 Mr. Youatt has given it as his opinion that the Red Polls are descended from the Galloway breed.

1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge iii. 116 I am descended in the female line from the Count de Lauria who came over to England in the suite of Philip the Second.

2004 Focus Feb. 44/2 Every human on the planet is descended from between one and seven women who were part of a group of perhaps 200 individuals a few million years ago.