The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scots Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Lawder | 3 | 1560 (awing); 1596 (buke-); 1649 (afore-) |
| Lauder | 1 | 1532 (aggravatour) |