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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lauder | 5 | 1503 (counsail); 1556 (cheplane); 1560 (brewing lume); c1580 (commissar); 1615-6 (chepenes) |
| Laudere | 1 | 1489 (chanoun) |
| Lawder | 1 | 1562 (corporal) |