One cottage woman is occasionally Deputed by several of her neighbours as their representative.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
So the Dean had been Deputed to sound Marmaduke.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
He mechanically hurried over his dinner without appetite, and then, taking a basket, went off to the beach to collect some more shells, and to fetch some which he had Deputed some fisher-boys living at a considerable distance along the coast to obtain for him.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston