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Of an honest housholder which was cuningly deceyued by a subtill companion, that came to hire a Chamber for his Master.
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.
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"An housholder, and that a gret was he;" the context plainly showing the meaning to be, "hospitable on a great scale."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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Let proclamation once againe be made, that euery housholder, on paine of deathe keep in his Prentises, and euery man, stand with a weapon readie at his doore, as he will answere to the contrary.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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¶ And an other law/if any housholder dye intestate/his money & other goodes shal re [-] mayne to his next kyn.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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