c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk. (1868), 172. Þerfore stuffe of household is behoveable.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 49. Y toke hem, and to behouable vsus ful treuly y spende hem.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1021/1. Gamaliel did see better what was behooueable.
1596. Bell, Surv. Popery, II. II. viii. 172. It was as well behoouable to haue the wiues confirmed, as the husbandes.
