detter

Say yea master vicar, & he shal sure confes to be your detter

Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575

But rather euery manne fliall thnke thus with himfelfe, that he is altogether detter to his neighbours, & that he muft determine none other ende of vfing his hberaline, but when abihtie faileth, which how large fo cucr it be, muft be meafured by the rule of charitie.

The institution of christian religion 1578