OE (Tiber. B.iv) anno 992 Þa rædde se cyning & ealle his witan þæt man gegadere ealle þa scipu þe ahtas [OE Tiber. B.i ahtes] wæron on Lundenbyrig.
lOE (Laud) anno 1085b Þær him comon to his witan and ealle þa landsittende men þe ahtes wæron ofer eall Engleland.
c1300 St. Dominic (Laud) l. 136 in C. Horstmann (1887) 282 ‘Ich habbe ane guode Caumpiun..And anne felawe’... ‘Lat me iseo..i-chulle loki ȝweþer huy beon ouȝtes.’ Ore leuedi nam þo seint domenic..And seint Fraunceis al-so guod.
c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 2247 Icholle þuder sende Constantin..& tuo hondred kniȝtes al so..þat god dede mowe do Mid þe folc of þe lond ȝif hii aȝtes [a1400 Trin. Cambr. auȝtes, ?a1425 Digby ouȝtes] beþ.
a1425 (?a1400) (Harl. 674) (1944) 14 (MED) He wolde not leue þee þus liȝtly for loue of his herte, þe whiche he haþ euermore had vnto þee siþ þou were ouȝtes.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 9411 (MED) Two men þat oughtes be May kepe þe issue & þe entre.
c1450 (c1400) (Huntington) (1942) 88 (MED) Seynt Poule..haþ here nempned vs þe grettest goodes þat a man myȝt do..penaunce of body, suffre martirdom..And ȝif suche goodes beþ nouȝtes, how scholde lesse goodes ben ouȝtes [1340 Ayenbite by worþ; Fr. vaudroit].
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. xi. 13/2 in R. Holinshed I Sith theyr generation is strange in deede, I haue not a litle trauayled, and with no small diligence indeuoured to search out the truth hereof, wherby I learne that their ingendrure is rather to be referred to the sea, than any thing els, if my coniecture be oughtes.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne ii. xvi. 363 Is there any thing more foolish, then to thinke that altogether they are oughts, whom every one single you would set at noughts?
1654 J. Trapp xiii. 174 Had they been wise, or oughts, (as we say) had not their incurable hardnesse and obstinacy hindered.