(UNDER-1 6 b.)

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1581.  Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 63. Where you shal haue Asia of the one side, and Affrick of the other, and so many other vnder-kingdoms.

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1859.  Tennyson, Merlin & V., 581. Thro’ all The hundred under-Kingdoms that he sway’d.

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1877.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 774. Cnut, like Charles, established a system of under-kingdoms.

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