a1300 Cursor M. 16851 Ioseph..Ne granted neuer wit wil ne werc, to air gret felunni. 1340 Ayenb. 225 e ilke bern et to zenne graunte. 1375 BARBOUR Bruce IV. 352 I grant thar-till; To ly heir mair war litill skill. c1385 CHAUCER L.G.W. 2665 Hypermnestra, [Egiste commanded his daughter, with threats, to kill her husband;] And, for to passyn harmles of that place, She grauntyth hym. 1390 GOWER Conf. III. 338 He..graunteth with hem for to wende. c1400 MANDEVILLE (Roxb.) xxx. 138 ai graunted at do all at he wald bidd am do. c1400 Sowdone Bab. 250, I graunte to be his derlynge. c1440 Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 198 e freendys prayed e preest to ley e dede body on his asse. erto grauntyd he hem. 1485 CAXTON Paris & V. 15 At these words graunted Parys to goo to the sayd Ioustes. 1523 LD. BERNERS Froiss. I. ccxliii. 363 He graunted to the warr with an yuell wyll. a1547 SURREY Æneid II. 164 Assigning me To the altar; whereto they graunted all. 1593 SHAKES. 3 Hen. VI, I. i. 245 The Souldiers should haue toss'd me on their Pikes, Before I would haue granted to that Act.

 

c1420 Chron. Vilod. st. 141 e Kyng of Denmark old hym anon o And granted crystenmon ever to be. c1450 Merlin 23 They that shull come to seche me, have graunted their lorde that they shull me sle. 1484 CAXTON Fables of Æsop II. xi, To promytte & graunte to gyue to the that whiche thou neuer leuest to me. 1512 J. WASTELL in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 609 The said John Wastell graunteth to gyff...xx. markes. 1558 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. v. 186 The said T. D...couenaunteth and graunteth, to and with the said T. V...that if he [etc.].