1669. Pepys, Diary, 4 March. And so I parted, with great content that I had so earlily seen him there.
1678. Bp. Wetenhall, Office of Preaching, 742. That it [preaching] was earlily required of the Presbyters, we have already seen out of the pretended Apostolical Constitutions.
1713. Steele, Englishman, No. 46. 302. I thus earlily let go my Fire against the Pretender’s Friends.
