Alleadge

Yea, mine owne sayings are every hand-while alleadged against my selfe, when God wot I perceive it not.

1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins Whereas you alleadge your Catholickely affected in euerie degree not of the Temporalty : only but also of the Clergie, hardly the highest degrees of honour to be expected.

1628, Francis Fletcher et al., The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, London: Nicholas Bourne, 1652, p. 30, Proofs were required and alleadged, so many, and so evident, that the Gentleman himself, stricken with remorse of his inconsiderate and unkind dealing, acknowledged himself to have deserved death, yea many deaths; for that he conspired, not only the overthrow of the action, but of the principall Actor also, who was not a stranger or ill-willer, but a deare and true friend unto him […]

Pitmedden purſues Seaton of Menzies as Repreſenting his Father, who was one of the Purſuers Brothers Tutors, for his Fathers Intromiſſion with the Pupils Means, who alleadged Abſolvitor, becauſe the Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt; for albeit pactum de non petendo, may be granted to one, and not be profitable to the reſt, a ſimple Diſcharge, which diſſolveth the Obligation of the Bond, muſt be profitable to all.

The next Charge upon us is, That inſtead of giving his Majeſty ſatisfaction, we publiſhed a Declaration concerning that buſineſſe, as an appeal to the people, and as if our intercourſe with his Majeſty, and for his ſatisfaction, were now to no more purpoſe, which courſe is alleadged to be very unagreable to the modeſty and duty of former times, and not warrantable by any Preſidents, but what our ſelves have made.

Roger Hastie, parochiner of Keithe, compeired, desireing mariage of a woman in the forsaid parishe, and being demanded concerning a testificate from Irland, quher he had resided of late, as he alleadged, answered ingenuouslie that he had brought none over with him from thence, being forced to omitt it throghe the troubles of the countrie, but was able to give his oathe, and qualifie otherwise, that he was nether maried as yet, nor scandelous in his cariage in the place quher he had liued.