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c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2479. He … bad him nimen him feres mide, Wel wopnede men.
c. 1425. Eng. Conq. Ireland, 8. Knyghtes and þe skyers well I-horsed and well y-wepened.
c. 1450. Robin Hood & Monk, viii. in Child, Ballads, III. 97/1. Take twelue of þi wyght ȝemen, Well weppynd, be þi side.
1586. J. Hooker, Hist. Irel., 162/2, in Holinshed. A thousand well weaponed and appointed men.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. 108. The foresaid Arch-Bishops … attended with a numerous train of well-weaponed servants.
1670. Milton, Hist. Brit., II. 61. Thick upon the shoar stood several gross bands of men well weapn’d.
