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c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 643 (MED) To þe ich wile bere rekord, And telle y wile þe.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 850 Forto bere hierof record, He sende ous hider bothe tuo.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 286 There were many knyghtes bare hym recorde.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. xii. 9 Of this wyl I bere hym good record, that he has clerely kepte hys byleue in to this last ende.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) John i. f. cxx And I sawe yt, and have borne recorde, that thys ys the sonne off God.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Cviii^v All that reade their workes maye beare recorde with them agaynst your lyes.

1611 Bible (King James) John xix. 35 He that saw it, bare record, and his record is true. View more context for this quotation

1667 N. Billingsley Treasury Divine Raptures 155 Conscience goes with us where e're we go, To bear record of whatsoe're we do.

1702 B. Higgons Gorgeous Conqueror iii. i Bear record Heav'n, and all the conscious Stars, Who doom our Loves to this Disastrous Fate.

1792 S. Ireland Picturesque Views Thames I. 67 Distant columns, proudly bearing record to its noble founder's greatness.

1850 H. Boyd Death of Queen Dowager 15 And we can all bear record to the worth Of her, whom we so deeply mourn on earth.

1902 W. Canton Comrades 121 The pillar bearing record of the cure Was dug from wreck of war and drift of years.

2000 Afr. Amer. Rev. 34 481/2 Landscape..is never merely landscape but always the mirror of human history, bearing record through proliferating the seeds humans have planted.