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eOE Bede Glosses (Tiber. C.ii) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1917) 136 291 Farans [read farus] : bæcenfyr.

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 100 Farus, beacenstan, in promontoria rupis posita, .i. fyrtor.

1277 Patent Roll, 5 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 66/96) m. 17 Les..Bailifs as Barons des porz [sc. the Cinque Ports]..eyent les deus deners de Nefs costumers ke sunt apelez fire penyes a fius [= feux] sustenir en les lus acoustumez pur seurte de la Riuage.

1450–2 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1876) App. 520 in Parl. Papers (C. 1432) XL. 1 For a hundred of wood, had at the firehowse, to make wacche firys there 5d.

1554 J. Knox Admon. Faithful Christians sig. A.iv Fyers of ioye and ryotous bancketinges were made at the proclamation of Marye your Quene.

1589 Summarie Drakes W. Indian Voy. 48 The ninth of Iune vpon sight of one speciall great fire (which are verie ordinarie all alongst this coast, euen from the Cape Florida hither) the Generall sent his Skiffe to the shore, where they found some of our English countrey men.

1663 F. Philipps Antiq. Præ-emption & Pourveyance for King viii. 477 As necessary as for Seamen to pay a certain rate for lights or fires upon the Sea Coasts to prevent Shipwracks.

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 128 There is sometimes no more than one poor Moor, to kindle the Fire to be a Guide to Ships entring the Haven in dark Nights.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4893/3 The Fire [in a lighthouse] will be lighted..from the First Day of September.

1783 tr. P.-C. Levesque in Eng. Rev. Aug. 98 The Russians..light up the fires of joy and dance around them.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. xxxvii. 267 Where far the mansion of her sires Beaconed the dale with midnight fires.

1890 ‘Princess V. Zarovitch’ Mizora ii. vii. 273 We lighted a fire, but the blaze could not be seen far in such inky darkness. We hallooed, but received no answer.

1915 tr. Lieut.-Col. Kaden in Times 23 Mar. 9 This year fires of joy shall flare from the Bismarck columns throughout the length and breadth of Germany.

1977 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 6 June 103 bonfires in eight chains from Windsor..were lit consecutively as each preceding hilltop fire was sighted.

2005 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 9 Oct. 16 An official line of 350 ‘fires of joy’, starting from Copenhagen and controlled by several thousand soldiers, will light up the entire nation on news of the royal birth.

2012 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 6 June 3 Most of Leicestershire's fires were lit between 10pm and 10.15pm, before the Queen lit the national beacon outside Buckingham Palace.