a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 37 Legatum, a queþe worde.
1469 M. Paston in (2004) I. 350 It is a fowle slaundere that he was so wurchepfull beried and his qwethword not parfourmed.
1581 Aldeburgh Rec. in 12th Ser. 7 402/2 Pd to John Tedboll for his queathe woorde of John Bec iiizi vis viiid.