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1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 313 Your councell thynketh it were wele don that ye gete an allias and a plurias that it myght be sent don to the scheryf, and than he can make non excuce.

1544 tr. Natura Breuium (new ed.) 19 If he make [nat] execution, then shal there go out a sicut alias..and after that one pluries.

1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. ii. 10 It seemeth by the Alias and Pluries in the Register, that Sherifes, and their vnder officers were then also slacke ynough, to perfourme this part of their duetie.

1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. F2^v For all your Demurres, Plures, and Sursurarers, which are all Long-swords: that's Delaies: al the comfort is, in nine yeares a man may ouerthrowe you.

1636 P. Heylyn Hist. Sabbath Ep. Ded. sig. Bb2^v After severall searches made upon the alias, and the pluries, wee still returne, Non est inventus.

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xxv. 259 He practiced a much more easy, certain, and effectual method of revenge, by instituting a process against them, which, after writs of capias, alias, & pluries, had been repeated, subjected them both to outlawry.

1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 346 If the sheriff returned nihil upon the summons, an alias and a pluries issued.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 527/1 Pluries, a writ that issues in the third instance after the first and the alias have been ineffectual.

1949 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 379 The Habeas Corpus Act, 1679, sets out how the object of the writ was often evaded, so that it had to lead to the issue of an alias and in some cases the issue of a pluries.

1995 C. R. B. Dunlop Creditor-Debtor Law in Canada (ed. 2) ix. 261 The third and subsequent writs are traditionally called pluries writs.