unknowen

And zee schulle undirstonde, that the emperour, in his propre persone, rydethe not as othere gret lordes don bezonde; but zif him liste to go prevyly with fewe men, for to ben unknowen.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And zee schulle undirstonde, that the emperour, in his propre persone, rydethe not as othere gret lordes don bezonde; but zif him liste to go prevyly with fewe men, for to ben unknowen.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

It is not unknowen, Christeane Reader, that the same clud [11] of ignorance, that long hath darkened many realmes under this accurssed kingdome of that Romane Antichrist, hath also owercovered this poore

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

And had so wel the beauty of the unknowen knight graued in the bottom of her hart, as thinking to close her eyes, she thought that he flew continuallye before her like a certaine fansie or shadowe.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

"Forsothe yee moste dere, one thing _dare_ you nougt (or be not unknowen): for one day anentis God as a thousande yeeris, and a thousande yeer as one day."

Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

In the same old journal Whitbourne goes on to say that "Nature had recompensed that only defect and incommoditie of some sharpe cold by many benefits -- with incredible quantitie and no less varietie of kindes of fish in the sea and fresh water, of trouts and salmons and other fish to us unknowen."

Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911

Besides that, it is the goodliest and most pleasing Territorie of the world: for the continent is of an huge and unknowen greatnesse, and very well peopled and towned, though savagely, and the climate so wholesome, that wee had not one sicke since we touched the land here.

Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

Besides that, it is the goodliest and most pleasing Territorie of the world: for the continent is of an huge and unknowen greatnesse, and very well peopled and towned, though savagely, and the climate so wholesome, that wee had not one sicke since we touched the land here.

The First Voyage to Roanoke. 1584. 1898

My speeches are no lawe, nor scarce good judgment, for the warrs were unknowen to me 22 yeres agon.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

This is probably the "unknowen way of the Indians," which Preston used.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847