from Old French pêle-mêle, with final e pronounced, or with English adverb suffix -ly; found a century earlier than the simple pell-mell c 1450 - Merlin or the Early History of King Arthur, a Prose Romance; see below From: Merlin Or the Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (about 1450 - 1460 A.D.) Edited by Henry B. Wheatley Part III Published for the Early English Text Society, 1869 Chapter XXII. Fight between Bohors and Pounce. P. 391 From:
Conferences of the Reformers and Divines of the Early English Church on the Doctrines of the Oxford Tractarians; Held in the Province of Canterbury, in the Spring of the Year 1841 By Henry Fish, 1842 On Private Judgment. P. 90
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