Middle English is a bit of an orthographic free-for-all, but by the Early Modern Period, say about 1550 or 1600, the present-day spellings of these words had taken root.
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Of course, when you see that list, you can see that the word grapheme literally – LITERALLY literally – already means 'marker.'