a1325     		(Cambr.)	 		(1929)	 808 (MED)  				E plus vaudreit un beleth Pur feir ma graunge des raz [glossed] ratonz neth.
a1387    J. Trevisa tr.  R. Higden  		(St. John's Cambr.)	 		(1874)	 V. 119 (MED)  				Meny moȝtes he clepede and ratouns of þe paleys.
c1400						 (c1378)						    W. Langland  		(Laud 581)	 		(1869)	 B. Prol. 146  				Wiþ þat ran þere a route of ratones..And smale mys with hem.
?a1425     		(Egerton)	 		(1889)	 64 (MED)  				Ratouns and myesse.
1486     sig. civ  				The fleshe of a kydde..and especiall Ratonys flesh.
a1500    in  F. J. Furnivall  		(1903)	 43 (MED)  				I comawnde alle þe ratons þat are here abowte, þat non dwelle in þis place.
1554    D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 3985 in   		(1931)	 I  				Necessitie gart thame eit perforsse Dog, Catt and Rattone.
a1585    A. Montgomerie  288  				Reavens rugand at that ratton [sc. a child].
1601    P. Holland tr.  Pliny  I.  viii. xxxvi. 216  				At the first, they [sc. bear-whelps] seeme to be a lumpe of white flesh without all forme, little bigger than rattons.
1617    R. Brathwait tr.  ‘B. Multibibus’  32  				When I'm drunke as any Rattin, Then I rap out nought but Lattin.
1661     Suppl. 6  				The inraged Tygre no sooner furrowed his Front, then this feverish Ratoun let fall his Crest.
1664    in  P. H. Brown  		(1908)	 3rd Ser. I. 549  				Rattones and other vermin.
1702    R. Wodrow  		(M.C.)	 I. 12  				In the midle of the sermon, a ratton came and sat doun on his Bible.
1725    H. Sloane  II. 294  				It maintains it self principally on Snakes, Rattones, and Lizards, which it takes.
1786    R. Burns  		(1968)	 I. 103  				I..heard the restless rattons squeak About the riggin.
1816    A. Boswell  11  				Lowrie grew calm, the wife was pleas'd, For ilka imp, about the house, Slank aff like ratten, or like mouse.
1849    C. Brontë  I. iii. 67  				As much better..as a bull's bellow than a ratton's squeak.
1894    S. R. Crockett  59  				A ratton's bite's poisonous.
1919    J. Masefield  80  				The beaten holes the ratten makes.
1927    J. Buchan  xi. 181  				Now that we ken some o' the Coven, the four o' us can keep our een open, and watch them as a dowg watches a ratton.
1939     25 Jan. 5  				Rattans scramblin' ower the ruif.
1980    P. Wright  at Rattan  				Thoosans o' rattans.
1996    C. I. Macafee  271/2  				Ratton, a rat.