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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2681 (MED) Þo he sei is felawes ymorþred so villiche, God ernest he nom to him..is felawes to awreke.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2859 (MED) Þe komli kerneles were to-clatered wiþ engines, & mani of here miȝthi men murdred to deþe.

c1455 Regiam Majestatem c. 138 Bot he be of the kyn of him that is murtherit dead.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 10701 Paris in pyne was pricket at his hert, To se his men so be mard, & murtherit to dethe.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11140 There murtherit were mony of the mayn troiens.

?1572 R. Sempill Premonitioun Barnis of Leith (single sheet) For innocents ar murtherit downe Without remors in land and towne.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H3^v Dismount the Cannon of the aduerse part, Murther the foe and saue their walles from breach.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ix. 337 If the elephant chanceth to breake through the hedge, he murthereth as many men as he can finde.

a1689 A. Behn Widdow Ranter (1690) ii. iv. 24 Shou'd I stand by and see my Country ruin'd, my King dishonour'd, and his Subjects Murder'd?

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 194 Those Countries which I have described, do not appear to have a Desire of being conquered, and enslaved, murdered or driven out by Colonies.

1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 22 He is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iii. ii. 176 They are..Murdering the prisoners.

1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold v. i. 149 They turn on the pursuer, horse against foot, They murder all that follow.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 67/2 A second expedition became necessary later on, two small patrols having been treacherously murdered.

1993 People's Weekly World 6 Feb. 16/2 This week he sent his death squads into Kinshasa, murdering 1,000 people.