1539. Elyot, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. II. 117. Nowe althowgh very unmeete and unhabile, I have servyd the King … truely and faithfully.
1567. Sc. Acts, Mary (1814), II. 573/1. Decerning thairfore … his posteritie to be fra thine furth unhabile to bruik offices … within this Realme.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Ductor, III. ii. rule 2 § 14. The offending person is bound in Conscience not to accept a benefice … to which by that censure he is made unhabile and unapt.
