c. 1450. Roll, in 3rd Rep. Comm. Hist. MSS. (1872), 279/2. The Frenshemen alied them selfe and enlarge their amite, and their aliage to suche as were beste oute of the kynges amite.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 41 b. The late ouerthrowe of the monasteries, couentes, colleges, and chaunteries, alleages of uncleane spretes.