in the stead of

Here lies one, in flower of youth, / Once his friend’s joy, now his parents ruth: / If Kitchen be his name, as I have found, / Then Death now keeps his kitchen under ground; / And hungry worms that late of fleſh did eat, / Devour their Kitchen in the ſtead of meat.

1662, I[ohn] C[otgrave], “On One Master Kitchen”, in Wits Interpreter, the English Parnassus. Or, A Sure Guide to Those Admirable Accomplishments That Compleat Our English Gentry, in the Most Acceptable Qualifications of Discourse or Writing. […], 2nd edition, London: […] N[athaniel] Brook, […], →OCLC, page 302

Bleſſed Lord [Jesus], they crucifie thee for all thy good vvorks: if thou hadſt been guilty, poſſibly thou mighteſt have been ſpared in the stead of Barabbas; […]

1676, [Matthew Hale], “Of the Knowledge of Christ Crucified”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. […], London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbury […], and John Leigh […], →OCLC, page 229

As for thy drink—I need not tell thee, it muſt be the infuſion of Vervain, and the herb Hanea, of which Ælian relates ſuch effects—but if thy ſtomach palls with it—diſcontinue it from time to time, taking cucumbers, melons, purſlane, water-lillies, woodbine, and lettice, in the ſtead of them.

1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VIII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, pages 153–154