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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxii It was prorogyd unto the feest of Seynt Edwarde at the whiche season all thynge was put at reste for a wyle.

1617 Bruce's Way to True Peace & Rest i. 12 To craue that he would send out of himselfe that measure of peace, that may put thy conscience at rest, and restore thy soule to health.

1709 R. Steele Let. 25 Sept. in Epistolary Corr. (1787) I. 80 I send this, to put thy tenderness at rest, and acquaint you, that Mr. Margate had been so friendly as to take effectual care before he saw me.

a1758 J. Edwards 20 Serm. (1789) xii. 186 They have reason to put their hearts at rest, and be at peace in their minds.

1795 R. Cumberland Henry I. iii. i. 203 Some new and unforeseen reverse of fortune at the story's close, which is to put the tortured mind at rest.

1819 Niles' Weekly Reg. 20 Nov. 191/2 The following remarks, from a Quebec paper,..will put these rumors at rest for the present.

1872 J. H. Matthews Little Sunbeams 391 Put her mind at rest if you can, or we shall be having headache and fever.

1919 T. W. Hughes Treat. Criminal Law & Procedure ii. xxiii. 293 There are others..who would have perhaps escaped irretrievable ruin had not their confidence been secured, and their apprehensions put at rest, by a promise of marriage.

2009 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 24/1 Anyone..can learn if they are at risk, and go armed to their GP to demand the blood tests that will put their minds at rest.