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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linlithqw | 7 | 1488 (col-heuch); 1504 (battaling, bottell); 1523 (chymmis); 1540 (allouring, clenging); 1554 (cole) |
| Lythgow | 7 | 1488 (carying, chapell graith, copburd); 1489 (cary); 1491 (bring, burd, cremar) |
| Lythqow | 6 | 1489 (arras werk, cart); 1491 (amit, barne, cariage, cumming) |
| Linlithgow | 3 | 1572 (burd); 1606 (affix) |
| Linlithgw | 1 | 1512 (chandeler) |
| Linlithqow | 1 | 1538 (bawbé) |
| Linlythqw | 1 | 1548 (bale) |
| Lithcu | 1 | c1390 (constabilry) |
| Lynlythgw | 1 | 1552 (cale) |
| Lynlythquow | 1 | 1595 (ancienté) |
| Lythquo | 1 | 1570 (burges) |