1532–3. Act 24 Hen. VIII., c. 12 § 4. Euerye suche personne … so doynge, and their fauctours … procurers, executers, and counsaylours.
a. 1677. Barrow, Wks. (1741), I. 119. The executers of his edicts.
1712. Dennis, Ess. Shakespear, 46 (J.). If upon this foot we examine the Tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, we shall find that in their most beautiful Pieces, they are impartial Executors of Poetick Justice.
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, iv. An obedient executer of all his tyranny.
