eOE     		(Parker)	 anno 895  				Þa sume dæge rad se cyng up bi þære eæ & gehawade hwær mon mehte þa ea forwyrcan..; & hie ða..worhton ða tu geweorc on twa healfe þære eas.
OE    Ælfric  		(Claud.)	 ii. 14  				Þære ðriddan ea nama is Tygris... Seo feorðe ea is gehaten Eufrates.
lOE     		(Laud)	 		(Peterborough interpolation)	 anno 656  				Fra Raggewilh v mile to þe rihte æ þe gað to Ælm.., & swa abutan  iii mile to Þrokonholt..& fra Grætecros þurh an scyrwæter, Bradanæ hatte.
c1175						 (     		(Bodl. 343)	 		(1894)	 18  				He..ðær wunede ant on morȝen ðanon wende to iordanen þare æ.
c1175     		(Burchfield transcript)	 l. 7091  				Tær iss i þatt illke land, An. æ. saba ȝehatenn.
c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon  		(Calig.)	 		(1963)	 l. 702  				In are swiðe feire æ þer Læire falleð i þa sæ..Brutus i þare hauene læi.
1417    in  W. Hudson  		(1906)	 I. 321  				[The fishery called] Trons Ee.
c1450						 (?a1400)						     		(Ashm.)	 l. 5464  				All þe strands of þe streme stode full of stith reedis, Quare-of he beds..him bargis to make... Þan entirs in of his erles & ouire þe ee passis.
1578    in   		(1903)	 5 101  				The land of Henry Adam esquire in the fenn of Tydd St. Maryes in the coy. of Lincoln unto the Ea between both shires of Lincoln and Cambridge at Graynes Hall.
1662    W. Dugdale  329/1  				There was a certain Sewer, called South Ee, but antiently Old Ee; whereby the water of Nene and Weland ought to passe from Noman's land, in Croyland, unto Dowesdale, in the same Town.
1781    J. Hutton  		(ed. 2)	 Gloss. 89/1  				Ea, a river along the sands on the sea shore.
1861    S. Smiles  I. 63  				They..surveyed the new eaus and sluices..after which they returned to Ely.
1866    C. Kingsley  II. i. 7  				They rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea.
1875    F. K. Robinson   				Ea-coorse, or Eau-course, the water-channel.
1875    J. H. Nodal  & G. Milner   				Eä (N. and E. Lanc.), a river or the channel of a river.
1896    W. H. Wheeler  		(ed. 2)	 vi. 201  				That one gote should be made at Fen Bank, and the other at the out end of the Ea.
1915     Feb. 645  				The waters of the five districts were carried to Clows Cross by the Old and New South Eau Drains.
1970    H. Orton  & P. M. Tilling  III.  ii. 421  				What do you call any running water smaller than a river?.. [Crowland, Lincs.] Dike, Ea.
1986    O. Rackham  xvii. 386  				Ea is still used (now misspelt eau ) of artificial Fenland channels.
1993    F. Willmoth  iii. 90  				‘Popham's Eau’, about 5 miles long, runs from the old course of the Nene near Upwell eastwards to Nordelph and Well Creek.