1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 6 The Penaltie..shall oonelie extende to the Utterer and Seller of the saide Pynnes.

1593 Brief Note Obs. Fish-Days ⁋6 Net-makers, Saile-makers,..and Vtterers of Fish, maintained chiefly by fishing.

1654 Ordinance for continuing Excise 17 Mar. 110 For all Spirits.., upon every Gallon, to bee paid by the Utterer and Seller thereof, one shilling.

1731 Flying Post 24 June 2/1 The Utterer of the forged Bank-notes.

1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 107 This sort of counterfeit coinage is..the least profitable to the Dealer, who..disposes of it to the utterers, vulgarly called Smashers.

1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xiii We could lay our hands on the utterer of the [forged] cheques at any moment.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 241 Coiners and utterers of base money.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/2 The coiners manufacture, and the utterers buy and distribute.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xii. 47 Whan the utterer, wythout impediment,..Dothe his tale unto them tretably.

1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. iiij^v To be able vtterers of the gospell.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. iv. 102 Things are made credible, eyther by the knowne condition and qualitie of the vtterer, or [etc.].

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 35 Barre I those lips? fit to be th'vttrers, when The heauens would parly with the chiefe of men.

1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 23 For Beatrix, she's a meer utterer of Yes and No.

1785 T. Holcroft tr. Comtesse de Genlis Tales Castle (ed. 2) I. 69 Falsehood..sooner or later..brings dishonour on its utterer.

1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a Year ii. iv A single successful speech..opens before its utterer the shining doors of fashion.

1846 F. D. Maurice Relig. World (1861) ii. ii. 170 He feels and confesses himself to be only a reflection of the divine Light, an utterer of the divine Voice.

1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. iv. 84 The utterer of maxims..useful to bear in mind.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. vii. f. xvii The lawe is not authour of synne, but the vtterer and apeacher therof.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cj That holy spyrit (vtterer of all truthe).

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1765/2 The vtterer of whyche conspiracie was one White.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V6^v Vtterers of secrets he from thence debard.