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1559 W. Baldwin in W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates To Rdr. sig. A.ii I wyll so far as my memorie and iudgement serueth, sumwhat further you in the truth of the story.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 31 I will content my self to discover a view of the country, as faithfully, and exactly as my memory will serve.

1781 T. Dawes Oration delivered Town of Boston 17 ‘That the yeomanry are the bulwark of a free people’—was, if memory serves, in a celebrated extempore speech of the honorable Samuel Adams.

1857 Liberty (Missouri) Tribune 27 Feb. As far as my memory serves, I will give it to you in his own words.

1905 E. Meeker Pioneer Reminisc. of Puget Sound Introd. 4 My only regret was that the work had not been undertaken earlier in life when memory served more accurately.

1920 J. H. Turner Place in World xviii. 216 Miss Figgis, who, if your memory serves, was the lady who giggled so loudly.., called upon the Reverend John.

2020 @Brookranger 7 May in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2020) You had a half decent team then if memory serves.....

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. A*.ii I will endeuoure my selfe, for so muche as my memorye wyll serue me, to call them perticularly to remembraunce.

1634 in Fasti Aberd. (1854) 398 The subprincipall..testifiet that since the twalt day of Marche last, as his memorie serwes him, the said principall did [etc.].

1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers xxii. 140 The earl of Chesterfield (if my memory serves me right)..intimates that his success in an important negotiation, must depend on [etc.].

1861 S. Brooks Silver Cord (1865) viii. 44 Or perhaps your memory don't serve you as well as it did.

1958 Irish Times 4 Nov. 6/3 The only components manufactured here are, if my memory is serving me right, upholstery, glass, tyres.

2014 S. Messenger Everblaze xxviii. 236 If memory serves me, the two of you have had a somewhat tumultuous relationship recently.