The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Chalmer | 12 | 1542 (big); 1551 (conburges); 1566 (chancelar); 1574 (chapter); 1588 (dative); 1599 (add, bangstrie); 1606 (assithment, bluding); 1636 (calsay, complaint); 1642 (compartinar) |
| Chalmber | 1 | 1628 (call) |
| Chalmour | 1 | 1515 (compt) |
| of Chalmyr | 1 | 1453 (buth-) |