The first is the account by Adomnán of Iona (d. 704) of the Holy Places, in which he included representations of the Holy Sepulchre and other churches. 1992 January 1, Jonathan James Graham Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
Alderman Johnson condemns the Reform Act, and is for going backward, in all things, to the good times. Punch humbly suggests that every man who votes for the Crab Alderman should be punished as follows:— The said voter never to be permitted to travel by rail, but to journey to York or elsewhere by the very slowest coach. Never to go to Margate by steamboat, but to take three days to the voyage, per hoy. Never to send a letter by penny-post, but to pay 10d. or 13d., as the case may be—the good old price of the good old times. 1847, “Vote for Alderman Johnson”, in Punch, volume XIII, page 40:
(abbreviation, alt-of, informal) Abbreviation of defence/defense.