1602. Archpriest Controv. (Camden), II. 7. [Not] any subscribing of names to any thing we should make answere to.
1655. Nicholas Papers (Camden), II. 191. Since the subscribeing of this, I am informed yt it is very doubtfull whether Deuchry bee in Aberfoile or no.
1710. H. Bedford, Vind. Ch. Eng., 121. Some Alterations were to be made to the Articles between their first Subscribing and their last Voting.
1751. Warburton, Note, Pope’s Wks. IV. 166. The subscribing for a Book, which does honour to one’s Age and Country.
1762. T. Mortimer, Ev. Man own Broker (ed. 5), 172. The first deposit … is made on or about the time of subscribing.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 285. The subscribing to a few regulations.
1855. Poultry Chron., 15 Aug., 555. The subscriptions shall be considered due at the time of subscribing.
1856. Ells & Blackburn, Cases Queen’s Bench, IV. 454. But neither does the statute appoint where the will shall be subscribed by the attesting witnesses; and therefore a subscribing in any part may be sufficient.
attrib. 1712. Addison, Spect., No. 271, ¶ 2. The subscribing Part at the End of them [sc. Letters].
1912. Shaylor, Fascin. Bks., 220. It is to the subscribing department that publishers look for a tone and impetus to be given to a new book.
