Citations:Dutchland

probably the "German-speaking areas" sense

 * 1834, William Thomas Lowndes, The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, volume 1, page 328:
 * A Treatise, declarynge what great Profit might come to all Christendome, yf there were a Regester made of all Sainctes Bodies and other Reliques, which are as well in Italy, as in Fraunce, Dutchland, Spaine, and other Kingdomes and Countreys. Translated out of Frenche into English, by Steuen Wythers. 1561. London.

sense not yet determined

 * 1683, The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill, page 30:
 * joining with the Protestant Princes in Dutchland, and with the Queen of England, Count Egmont, Prince of Orange, Count Horn, and such as had in the Low Countries embraced the Reformed Religion,


 * William Tyndale, in a work published in 1828 in The works of the English and Scottish reformers, volume 2, pages 411 and 479:
 * and cast it into a well at Acon, in Dutchland.
 * then went the common game throughout all Dutchland, that the emporer's counsel, Holland, Brabant and Zealand, had determined, if the war proceeded, to have set up the king of Denmark that was, to have challenged his right in England.
 * then went the common game throughout all Dutchland, that the emporer's counsel, Holland, Brabant and Zealand, had determined, if the war proceeded, to have set up the king of Denmark that was, to have challenged his right in England.


 * it is unclear whether this (which probably uses the "Dutch area" sense) is a Middle English work or a modern English 'translation' of one (see Talk:undeadliness)


 * a record from c. 1404, published in 1657 in An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London by William Prynne:
 * 27. That other strangers Catholicks, as those of Dutchland be appointed to remain upon such Frontiers within the Realm where Garrisons are.