1548. Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI., c. 21 § 1. Beinge free and unburdened from the care and coste of fyndinge Wyef and Children.
1605. Shaks., Lear, I. i. 42. Conferring them on yonger strengths, while we Vnburthen’d crawle toward death.
1724. Swift, Poems, On Dreams, 8. When in bed we rest our weary limbs, The mind unburden’d sports in various whims.
1775. Burke, Sp. Concil. Amer., Wks. III. 116. The obedient colonies in this scheme are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburthened.
1875. C. L. Kenney, Mem. M. W. Balfe, 148. His exchequer would be unburdened with superfluous expenses.
1883. Stevenson, Silverado Sq., 122. Even for a man unburthened, the ascent was toilsome and precarious.
