1624, William Camden, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland, London: Richard Whitaker, Anno 1568, p. 46,
When I had againe forgiuen them, behold, they laid vpon me a new crime, which themselues had wrought, and signed with their owne hands; and shortly after were enranked in battell against me in the field […]
(figurative, obsolete) To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
1630, William Vaughan, The Arraignment of Slander Perjury Blasphemy, and other Malicious Sinnes, London: Francis Constable, Lineament 16, p. 174,
Courteous countrey-men, vnderstanding spirits, whose hap it is to be enrankt into impanelles […]