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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 429 (MED) The kynge toke alle those castells..and compellede the seide erle to abiure Ynglonde.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 401 If he take Sanctuarie, and doe abiure the Realme.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 155 Gif any man hes abjured the towne (sworne to passe forth of the burgh) and is returned againe.

1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 274 He who kills Deere, and cannot finde security to put in for the payment of the Fine imposed, is compelled to abjure the Common-wealth.

1677 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws 183 When a Clerk heretofore was convicted of Felony, he might have saved his life by abjuring the Realm; that is, by departing the Realm within a certain time appointed, and taking an Oath never to return.

1703 J. Astry Charge to Grand Juries 51 Any two Justices of the Peace, or the Coroner may require such an Offender to abjure the Realm.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 399 Even while abjurations were in force, such a criminal was not allowed to take sanctuary and abjure the realm.

1829 A. Holmes Ann. Amer. I. 322 By this act it was provided, that every five of them [sc. Quakers], meeting for religious worship, should be fined for the first offence £5; for the second offence, £10; and for the third offence, abjure the realm.

1885 Amer. Law Reg. 33 357 At common law when a husband was civilly dead, had abjured the realm, etc., his wife had the status of an unmarried woman.

1962 M. Powicke 13th Cent. x. 462 A clerk who fled from justice and was outlawed, or who voluntarily abjured the realm, had no benefit of clergy.

2001 Econ. Hist. Rev. 54 9 John the wittawer..had no chattels, and neither did William the soaper of Oxford, who abjured the realm after having turned vagrant and stolen hens.