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c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 281 (MED) To be excused I make requeste.

a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) 7926 (MED) God..I now Reney, Yf for hym make I request To yow.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 351 Quhat gestis he had, to tell thai mak raquest.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxx Theyr aduersaries had made request to be heard in these thinges only.

1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 747 I would resolue my selfe, with my companie to goe into England in that Fleete, and accordingly to make request to the Generall in all our names, that he would bee pleased to giue vs present passage with him.

1611 Bible (King James) Neh. ii. 4 Then y^e king said.., For what doest thou make request ? View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 561 Thus Adam made request, and Raphael After short pause assenting, thus began. View more context for this quotation

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 138 I neither am dispos'd to make Request for Life, nor offer'd Life to take.

1767 W. Dodd Poems 108 To know his crimes the hero made request.

1851 J. Baillie Dramatic & Poet. Wks. ii. iv. 566 Who' twas who made request to chant the dirge?

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xvii. 216 I make request that henceforth you and my step-daughter be as strangers to each other.

1947 G. M. Brydon Virginia's Mother Church iv. 28 Sir Samuel Argall..was making request that the archbishop give him authority to administer the Holy Communion.

1998 J. G. Bellamy Criminal Trial in Later Medieval Eng. iii. 108 If the accused made request for particular witnesses or proofs..to be heard in court the crown would consider it.