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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chairteris | 1 | 1593 (buke-) |
| Charteris | 1 | 1590 (chandeler) |