1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Muses”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
[…] So now in heaven a signe it doth appeare, The Harpe well knowne beside the Northern Beare.
1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete:
But yt he should not but have had either shipping ready before this time, or at least certaine means, and course, and ye same knowne to us for it, or have taken other order otherwise, cannot in my conscience be excused.
1663-1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64:
Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in.