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1426 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 102 Att his owen fredam and libertee..for to mowe passe the See in parfourmyng of the said avowe.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 8386 Thow shalt no thyng do..But at thyn owne lyberte.

1480 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 63 Wherof my seyd chauntry priest to be one of them at his liberte.

1524 King Henry VIII in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 220 To..were his bonet on his hed..aswel in our presence as elleswhere, at his libertie.

1581 T. Lupton Persuasion from Papistrie 6 You might at your owne libertie commit spiritual whordom with Idols, Images, & the Masse.

1613 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (rev. ed.) i. xlii. 143 He cannot at his libertie travell to goe whether he pleaseth, being as it were a prisoner within the limits of his country.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 258 Were I at my lyberte as I was.

1485 W. Caxton in Malory's Morte Darthur Pref. sig. iij But for to..byleue that al is trewe that is conteyned herin, ye be at your lyberte.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. viii. 184 A man is not atte hys owne lyberte that byndeth hym self to another.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xiiii. sig. P.viii^v I wil be at my owne libertie, to do what me lust my self.

1645 in C. L. Ewen Witch Hunting & Witch Trials (1929) 291 Alicia Warner de Rushmere ffrely beeinge at her liberty confessed that she had enterteined certeine euill sperits.

1694 A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon App. ii. §7 417 Virgil represents her [sc. Fury] in Chains thus... Petronius describes her at her Liberty, thus.

1750 J. Bellamy True Relig. Delineated i. §2 36 He is at his Liberty, in such Cases, and may act according to his own Discretion.

1797 J. Hawkins Hist. Voy. Coast Afr. 143 That the bonds they then bore were only to prevent their flight; that they should be at their liberty where they were going.

1836 Yorkshireman 5 120 He told me I was at my liberty and so we parted.

1883 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 39 479 He was abroad each morning by five o'clock, and was at all times at his liberty.

1902 C. W. Brown Ethan Allen xvii. 271 He was..no sooner at his liberty than he sent to his brother Ethan a formal challenge to single combat with pistols.

1999 J. van Willigen & N. K. Chadha Social Aging in Delhi Neighborhood iv. 62 I can move around in the house at my liberty.