1730, The Life and Actions of James Dalton, (The Noted Street-Robber.)[…], London: […] R. Walker,[…], page 8:
[…] going down Stairs, I found his Bed Room Door open, and knowing the Drawer in which he kept his Money, I broke it open, and took out five Guineas and five Gold Rings, and ſo marched off; […]
[1747], James Ray, A Compleat History of the Rebellion, from Its First Rise in 1745, to Its Total Suppression at the Glorious Battle of Culloden, in April 1746, Manchester: […][F]or the Author by R. Whitworth,[…], page 313:
They Keep Cloſe-ſtools in their Bed Rooms, which they call Boxes, and are emptied out of the Windows at Night, ſo ſhitten Luck often lights on the Perſon who walks at late Hours in the Streets.
1787, The Life of the Baroness de Chantal.[…], London: […] Fry and Couchman,[…], page 269:
This is the order, and is obſerved ſo exactly, that every year, their bed rooms, medals, croſſes, &c. are changed, and each perſon’s property for the enſuing year is determined by lot, unleſs by the advice of a phyſician, one room is ſuppoſed to be more expedient for his patient than another.
