(UNDER-1 6 b.)
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.
1859. Tennyson, Merlin & V., 581. Thro all The hundred under-Kingdoms that he swayd.
1877. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 774. Cnut, like Charles, established a system of under-kingdoms.