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1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. viii. 22 These Royolets contented themselves, that their crowns..were as bright..as those of the mightiest Monarchs.

1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xli. 60 King Hen. the seventh was much troubled..with Idols, Scenecal Royaletts, poor petty, pittifull Persons, who pretended themselves Princes.

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 460^v Causing the Royalets to become Homagers to the Crown of England.

?1727 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. V. 45 There is a perpetual Jealousy between the Turkish Bassa and these Egyptian Royalets.

1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. V. ix. 304 They reckon eighty-four of those Indian royalets, who still preserve a kind of sovereignty in their antient country.

1808 R. Southey Chron. Cid 432 Royalets swarm in the barbarous ages of society.

1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. II. v. 177 Defend me, from being carried down the stream of time among a shoal of royalets.

1872 R. F. Burton Zanzibar II. 63 At Kikuzu the caravan found a royalet,..whose magical powers were greatly feared.

1900 W. Dalton War Tiger 4 The last-named generals..seized upon two of the richest provinces, and established themselves as independent royalets, or petty kings.