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 | 
|---|---|---|
| Winchester | 2 | 1603 (contempnar); 1604 (chanré) | 
| alias Vyncister | 1 | 1503 (alias) | 
| Wynchester | 1 | 1546 (burd) | 
| Wynchister | 1 | 1584 (buth-) |