Unfitting it was, that the body of that worthy patriarch (to whom all the land belonged by promise) should steal into that country in a clandestine way, and privately enter in at the postern door; rather let it solemnly surround the country, and be brought in at the broad gates. Thus the corpses of men of quality, though the chancel-door be nearer, are borne through the porch and middle alley to the place of their interment.
1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Tribe of Benjamin”, in A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof; with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon. […], London: William Tegg, published 1869, book II, paragraph 16, page 225