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1580 W. Charke Answere to Seditious Pamphlet sig. D.vi I would know whether it be vertue or knowledge that cause them in some places to carie letters..: in other places to carrie armes against her Maiestie openly.

1667 Earl of Lauderdale in R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1721) I. ii. ii. 277 All such as have..carried Arms for Our Authority against those in the late Rebellion.

a1784 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherd 116 in Sc. National Dict. at Ettle On easy terms I soon agreed to go and carry arms.

1868 Handbk. Travellers Russia, Poland & Finland (rev. ed.) 242/2 The Boyer Shein..took oath with his troops not to carry arms against Poland during 4 months.

1909 H. S. Williams Historians' Hist. World (new ed.) XII. 202 Scarcely any distinction being made between emigrants who had actually carried arms against France, and those who had merely taken refuge in a foreign land.

2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 May 1 The taped message..said ‘Carry arms against your enemies, the Americans and Jews’.