Heire

For the word Heire does not of it selfe imply the Children, or nearest Kindred of a man; but whomsoever a man shall any way declare, he would have to succeed him in his Estate.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

I suspect it was that young man, 'he went on, pointing with the key to the line about the' only Child and Heire. '

A Thin Ghost and Others 1899

And Dr. Donne's love died not with him, but was doubled upon his Heire, your beloved Uncle the Bishop of [3] Chichester, that lives in this froward generation, to be an ornament to his Calling.

Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton Izaak Walton 1638

If therefore a Monarch declare expresly, that such a man shall be his Heire, either by Word or Writing, then is that man immediately after the decease of his Predecessor,

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

For then there can no Heire be known, and consequently no Subjection be due.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

Commentaries on Litleton; where he sayes, If the right Heire of the Crown be attainted of Treason; yet the Crown shall descend to him, and Eo Instante the Atteynder be voyd; From which instances

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

a man will be very prone to inferre; that when the Heire apparent of a Kingdome, shall kill him that is in possession, though his father; you may call it Injustice, or by what other name you will; yet it can never be against Reason, seeing all the voluntary actions of men tend to the benefit of themselves; and those actions are most

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

221: Conuey'd himselfe as th 'Heire to th' Lady Lingare,

Henry V (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

1096: Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch,

King Lear (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

264: You are their Heire, you sit vpon their Throne:

Henry V (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623