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This rare nominalized use of the Latin adverb appears in English only from the late sixteenth-century, and is unattested in Continental French or medieval Latin.
s.
lawpostea, record of trial proceedings and verdict:
(
1310
)
L’atturné: ‘Sire, jeo suy nul bille, qar jeo bailla a mon mestre’ – Hervy: ‘Qei voudriez vous adonqe?’ – L’atturné: ‘Sire, jeo prie un postea’
YBB Ed II iv 195
(
1341
)
Et il continua cele suyte en roulle par posteas
YBB 15 Ed III 45
postea (1310)