This morning, before we sat, I went to Aldgate; and at the corner shop, a draper's, I stood, and did see Barkestead, okey, and Corbet, drawn towards the gallows at Tiburne; and there they were hanged and quartered.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Little Tom answered Little Jim by saying, "O de koke," which is the same as saying, "okey doke," which means "O.K." which is what most anybody says when he means "All right," meaning Tom Till would be ready early, and that when Little Jim's folks came driving up to their front gate tomorrow, Little Tom, with his best clothes on, would come running out of their dilapidated old unpainted house, carrying his New Testament, which Old Man Paddler had bought for him....
"Shenanigans at Sugar Creek"
Paul Hutchens
Canonteign House was garrisoned for the King, and was considered 'a strong fort'; but at the end of the year 1645, when the Royalist cause was lost, it was taken by a body of troops from the regiment of Colonel okey, who after the Restoration was executed as one of the Regicides.
"Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts"
Rosalind Northcote
