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 |
|---|---|---|
| of Knollis | 3 | 1476 (commandour); 1478 (allege); 1495 (contrar) |
| Knollis | 1 | 1531 (bon-acord) |