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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bell | 9 | 1508 (chaplan); 1520 (cheplane); 1530 (brother-); 1542 (bete); 1552-3 (cruke); 1555 (clour); 1571 (chapellane); 1634 (correctioun); 1639 (boull) |