† Fifth monarch

Obs. Christ as the head of the ‘fifth monarchy’; see next.

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1658. Cowley, Cutter of Coleman St., Epil. Wks. 1710, II. 893.

	And some Words to this Congregation speak;
	So great and gay a one I ne’er did meet
	At the Fifth Monarch’s Court in Coleman-street.

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1660. Biblioth. Fanat., in Harl. Misc. (1746), VIII. 70/2. Colonel Overton’s Delivery of Hull, into the Hands of the Wicked, when he had resolved to keep it till the Coming of the fifth Monarch.

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