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lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 He læfde æfter him þreo sunan.., se oðer het Willelm þe bær æfter him on Engleland þone kinehelm.]

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 10657 It was..in þe verþe ȝer þat he verst croune ber.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 770 He shall of Corinthe toun After þee bere [a1425 Linc. Inn beore] coroun.

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1082/2 There hath not many suche Queenes before her borne the Crowne of England.

1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 160 The people borne by their love to a Prince who bore the Crowne, not by his owne usurpation, but by two successive discents from Father and Grandfather.

1855 Daily Post (Liverpool) 21 Nov. 3/2 The treaty having been concluded by..a race of Europeans which has borne the crown upon its head for centuries.

1901 Times 21 Jan. 5/3 Queen Victoria..the universally-respected head of the family who for more than 63 years has borne the crown of the greatest Empire of the world.

2003 G. Heng Empire of Magic iii. 175 Gawain was worthy to be England's king, though Arthur bore the crown.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 464 in Poems (1981) 22 Off craftie crawing he micht beir the croun.

1715 A. Pennecuik Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 24 Gilminscleugh for Strength, may bear the Crown, Who wrestled with a Horse, and threw him down.

1871 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 22 July In the life race..each in himself may touch the goal in time, and so bear the crown.

1984 Washington Post 26 July (District Weekly) dc 1/1 When we met, I noticed the strain of bearing the crown... I have to wonder: Who cares for Miss America when she is feeling down?

2006 PR Newswire US (Nexis) 5 July Who bears the crown in hip-hop soul? According to consumers, three artists rise above the rest—Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G.