1837. Jas. Mudie, `Felonry of New South Wales,' p. 6:
«The author has ventured to coin the word felonry,as the appellative of an order or class of persons in New SouthWales – – an order which happily exists in no other country in theworld. A legitimate member of the tribe of appellatives . . .as peasantry, tenantry, yeomanry, gentry.»
1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c. xv. p. 24:
«The inundation of the Australian colonies with British Felonry.»
1888. Sir C. Gavan Duffy, `Contemporary Review,' vol. liii.p.14 [`Century']:
«To shut out the felonry of Great Britain and Ireland.»