1572. Huloet (ed. Higgins), Loyally or faythfully, fideliter.
1600. E. Blount, trans. Conestaggio, 270. Such as faithfully without promises … had loially serued them.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XI. 449. Wealthy Kings are loyally obey’d.
1853. J. H. Newman, Hist. Sk. (1876), I. [II.] I. iv. 181. Its [China’s] power of persevering so loyally in its old institutions through so many ages.
1891. E. Peacock, N. Brendon, I. 185. He was loyally anxious to serve his employer.
