1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques f. 64^v Wilhelmites..These be a kinde of Heremites raysed vp by one good Iohn of Mantua...Some appoynt it to one Guilihelm. byshop of Aquitane.

1652 A. Ross Hist. World ii. iv. xii. 182 The Order of Heremites, called Williamites from William Duke of Glascony their author, sprung up at this time.

1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders vii. 49 Heremitical Congregations, which were spread..under different names, and especially of the Williamites, and Zambonites.

2012 E. L. Saak Creating Augustine ii. 71 The passages that give proof of Augustine having founded the Williamites in Centumcellis are interpolations of Carolis.

1689 E. Bohun (title) The doctrine of non-resistance or passive obedience no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 193 Upon y^e Revolution he grew a mighty Williamite.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 697 The infamous triumvirs who had been, in the short space of a year, violent Williamites and violent Jacobites, became Williamites again.

1901 Athenæum 16 Nov. 654/3 [Fitzgerald Molloy] is as much a Jacobite in his sympathies as Macaulay was a Williamite.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. 6/1 He [sc. Wadding] was given a pension by James II's Government but was eventually forced into new exile by Williamites in 1690.

?1689 Better Late than Never sig. A/1 The King we have hitherto Abdicated..cannot..be said to have abdicated his Crown, till he refuses it upon those Terms; which if he should, the Distinction of His and the Williamite Party would soon have an End.

1702 R. Fleming Blessedness of those who die in Lord Ep. Ded. p. iv For to whom should I dedicate a Book of this kind, I mean such a Williamite one, if I may be allowed to speak still in our late Dialect, if not to your Grace?

1854 J. C. O'Callaghan Hist. Irish Brigades I. 209 To oppose the Williamite invasion under the Marshal Duke of Schonberg.

1991 Parl. Hist. 10 154 The Forfeitures Resumption Act of 1700, cancelling much of the Williamite land settlement, from which many Irish Protestants had benefited.

2006 C. A. Whatley Scots & Union iv. 157 A war..waged in defence of the Protestant religion and against popish idolatry, had its supporters in Scotland too, primarily Revolutioners, that is Williamite whigs and presbyterians.

1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xxv. 378 The Williamite glasses were not made and decorated primarily for Orange clubs, but for use in private houses on special days of Orange festivals.

1905 P. Bate Eng. Table Glass xii. 105 No. 213 is a Williamite glass bearing the inscription—‘The immortal memory’; others read, ‘To the glorious memory of King William’.

2011 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 22 Jan. 10 Williamite glasses date from about 1750 and commemorate the victory of King William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690.