1658, Thomas Browne, Pſeudodoxia Epidemica, página №. 296:
So Abel was accepted before Cain, Iſaac the younger preferred before Iſhmael the elder , Iacob before Eſau , Ioſeph was the youngeſt of twelve, and David the eleventh ſon and minour cadet of Jeſſe.
1674, Peter Heylyn, Ecclesia Restaurata, página №. 39:
But there was ſomething more then the Authority of a Minour King, which drew on ſuch a General Conformity to theſe Injunctions , and thereby ſmoothed the way to thoſe Alterations, both in Doctrine and Worſhip , which the Grandees of the Court and Church had began to faſhion.