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NOTES 
 
 HISTORICAL REFERENCES 
 
 TO THE 
 
 SCOTTISH FAMILY 
 
 LAUDER 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 JAMES YOUNG 
 
 GLASGOW 
 
 PRINTED BY THOMAS DUNCAN, 38 SAUCHIEHALL STREET 
 MDCCCLXXXIV. 
 
Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo 
 Sanguine censeri, pictosque ostendere vultus 
 Majorum, et stanteis in curribus ^Emilianos, 
 Et Curios jam dimidios, humerosque minorem 
 Corvinum, et Galbam auriculis nasoque carentem ? 
 Quis fructus generis tabula jactare capaci 
 Corvinum, posthac muita contingere virga 
 Fumosos equitum cum dictatore magistros, 
 Si coran Lepidis male vivitur; effigies quo 
 Tot bellatorum, si luditur alea pernox 
 Ante Numanitinos; si dormire incipis ortu 
 Luciferi, quo signa duces et castva movebant ? 
 
 ^76>d>3<r/ 
 
 
 Juvenal. 
 
TO 
 
 MRS. ARCHIBALD LAUDER, 
 
 WIFE OF THE PROMOTER OF THE WORK, 
 
 THIS SMALL VOLUME 
 
 IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY 
 
 The Editor. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 It may be thought by some that the history of a private family 
 can offer but little of interest to the casual reader, but when it is 
 considered that the annals of those families whose names and 
 actions are traceable through the most turbulent periods of the 
 history of their country, necessarily throw a certain light on many 
 important and sometimes obscure events, it does not appear 
 unreasonable to contend that such works have an historical interest 
 to others than the family immediately concerned, although naturally 
 the latter will attach more importance to the records of those 
 transactions. 
 
 And probably this short compilation of facts and dates, regard- 
 ing the Scottish family of Lauder, selected from sources of 
 unimpeachable authority, will be found, from this point of view, no 
 less deserving perusal than other histories of a similar character. 
 
P E E F A C E. 
 
 It is therefore hoped that the reader will not be of opinion that much 
 valuable time has been expended on a useless subject — a first 
 impression which an uninterested person might find it difficult to 
 avoid. 
 
 The work is necessarily antiquarian in its character, unlikely 
 therefore to interest those who rarely bestow a thought upon the 
 past, unless it be to subserve some present and personal purpose. 
 But, however indifferent such persons may be to investigations of 
 this nature, they would show a like indifference, at least to a certain 
 extent, to all other branches of historical study. 
 
 In those cases — and they are numerous— where a Lauder took 
 part in the stirring incidents of the heroic period of Scottish history, 
 some details of the events are given in order to render the narra- 
 tive more easily understood. Historical accuracy, so far as attain- 
 able, being almost indispensable in such works as the present, 
 verbatim extracts from a large number of authorities are put en 
 Evidence, and will be found in the Appendix. Indeed, the exuber- 
 ance of this part of the work may remind the reader of the French 
 proverb: — "La sauce vaut mieux que le poisson." 
 
 In printing the Appendix the various original texts have been 
 carefully adhered to, and the only extent to which it has been 
 deemed expedient to interfere was in occasionally removing the 
 contractions, or, in some instances where the chronological order 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 had been entirely disregarded, in altering the arrangement. No 
 change has been made which did not appear unavoidable, strict 
 regard having been had to the injunction set forth in the following 
 stanza from Chaucer's Prologue: — 
 
 Slho so shall telle a tale after a man, 
 %z moste reherse, as neighe as .cber he cm, 
 (Eberixh toorb, if it be ia his charge, 
 3111 speke he nxber so ritaelg attb so large; 
 ©r elks he moste tellen his tale utttre&e, 
 ©r feiiteit thittges, or furbeit loorbes netoe. 
 
It is the pleasing duty of the Editor to express his obligation 
 to Walter Denham, Esq., who has rendered him valuable 
 assistance in the preparation of this work, and whose efforts to 
 contribute to its accuracy deserve this special acknowledgment. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 If any apology were necessary for printing this narrative, 
 surely no more eloquent one could be adduced than the following 
 quotation from Lord Lyndsay's Lives of the Lyndsays : — 
 
 " Nothing, as it appears to me, can be less rational than the vulgar scoff at 
 pedigree and genealogy. The adage so constantly quoted by the antiquary that 
 no one who could lay claim to family antiquity ever despised it, undoubtedly meets 
 ■with exceptions; but a reverence for the past, and a desire to establish a connection 
 between it and self, are instinctive in human nature. And if instinctive, then, rightly 
 directed, they must be ennobling principles. ' Whatever,' says our great moralist, 
 ' withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, 
 or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking 
 beings.' I do not see why this sentiment might not have originated under the 
 ruined towers of the De Veres or Percies, as well as among the cloistered cells of 
 Iona. It is a mistake to suppose that the old feudal barons were uniformly 
 worthless, tyrannical, unintellectual despots. Some of them undoubtedly were so, and 
 those too of whom most is heard in history, and from whose character consequently 
 the modern idea of the whole class is taken. But many of them, on the contrary, were 
 
10 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 worthy of all esteem and affection, courteous, frank, refined, kind, and Christian. 
 
 Descent therefore from one of the great historical families of 
 
 Europe — or even from the less illustrious — or even from a mere line of respectable, 
 undistinguished progenitors, when considered as a chain establishing a connection 
 with the past — may well be considered as a valuable heritage, a source of lawful 
 satisfaction, an influential though subordinate principle in the formation of 
 character and the regulation of conduct through life. Few who have studied 
 human nature will dispute this. The inheritance of an illustrious name may have 
 but a slight influence in restraining a bad man from the commission of a dishonour- 
 able action, but there cannot be a doubt of its invigorating influence on those who are 
 worthy to bear it ; it is an incentive to virtue, to emulation, to consistency — and God 
 forbid that in days like these we should cut away one sapling, however weak, which 
 may assist us in climbing the rough, and rocky, and hilly path of honour and virtue 
 which is set before us. At the same time, the sluggish — those who are disposed to 
 rest their claims to consideration on the merit of their ancestry, and not their 
 own individual activity — should remember Sir Thomas Overbury's pithy sarcasm on 
 such characters, that they resemble potatoes, of which the only valuable portion is 
 under ground. It was in truth a noble saying of the late Lord Clarendon, that 
 birth conveyed no merit, but much duty, to its inheritor." 
 
 No doubt these remarks, however warrantable — nay, necessary — 
 in a book so exhaustive as that of Lord Lyndsay's, must appear 
 grandiloquent and altogether out of proportion to the claims of 
 this small volume ; but the general idea which is conveyed may be 
 considered — without presumption — to be common to every work 
 of a similar nature. Others have made use of more forcible terms 
 in the expression of their opinions on the subject ; but few, if any, 
 have been able to place the whole case in so unassuming, yet 
 persuasive and convincing form, before the impartial reader. 
 
 The noble author is not one of those numerous writers who 
 assert that none despises family pretensions but those who have 
 
INTRODUCTION. 11 
 
 no title to long descent; his reasons for publishing the result of his 
 genealogical investigations as to the origin of his own family, 
 and for encouraging and stimulating similar inquiry amongst other 
 families, are plainly stated in the work just cited, and serve as a 
 justification for the appearance of each and every book treating of 
 genealogy. He says : — - 
 
 "Do not allow yourselves to fall into the common prejudice, that Genealogy is a 
 dry uninteresting study — Lethe's wharf her paradise, and her votary dull as the 
 weed that fattens there. The Spirit of Discovery breathes expectation as eager, and 
 enjoyment as intense, into the heart of the enthusiastic Genealogist as into that of a 
 Bruce or a Humholt. His researches resemble theirs ; he journeys, as it were, into 
 the mountains of an unexplored land .... He starts with a few isolated 
 names in view — the sole remembrances that Time has spared of the race whose 
 origin and early annals he is ambitious of elucidating. Rolls of charters are laid 
 before him ; he examines them one by one, his rapid eye recognising at once, in the 
 body or among the witnesses of the document, the one familiar name, the object of 
 his enquiry. By his side lie the tablets wherein he registers each newly discovered 
 clansman, with exact reference to the date and purport of the deed that testifies of 
 his existence. Nothing wearies him. Chieftains start to light whose very names 
 
 have been forgotten; the casual hint of relationship thrills through him 
 
 he hurries to his closet, and there, arranging his notes in chronological order, broods 
 over them in silence, till a ray of light flashes from among them — the warriors of 
 old time arise and defile before him ; a patriarch leads the array, his children follow 
 after him, and their sons and grandsons, gliding side by side, close the ghostly 
 procession. Nor is it a mere dream, for they assume the very rank, and defile in 
 the very order of time, in which the eye of the antiquary has just discovered that 
 
 they lived " 
 
 "Every family should have a record of its own. Each has its peculiar 
 spirit, running through the whole line, and, in more or less development, perceptible 
 in every generation. Rightly viewed, as a most powerful but much neglected 
 instrument of education, I can imagine no study more rife with pleasure and 
 instruction. — Nor need our ancestors have been Scipios or Fabii to interest us in 
 
12 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 their fortunes. We do not love our kindred for their glory or their genius, but for 
 those domestic affections and private virtues that, unobserved by the world, expand 
 in confidence towards ourselves, and often root themselves, like the banian of the 
 East, and flourish with independent vigour in the heart to which a kind Providence 
 has guided them. And why should we not derive equal benefit from studying the 
 virtues of our forefathers 1 An affectionate regard for their memory is natural to 
 the heart; it is an emotion totally distinct from pride, — an ideal love, free from that 
 consciousness of requited affection and reciprocal esteem which constitutes so much 
 
 of the satisfaction we derive from the love of the living " 
 
 " Remember, remember — if some of these ancestors have deserved 
 
 praise, others have equally merited censure, — if there have been ' stainless knights,' 
 never yet was there a stainless family since Adam's fall. 'Where then is boasting?' 
 — for we would not, I hope, glory in iniquity. 
 
 ' Only the actions of the just 
 Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.' " 
 
 In this volume we have endeavoured to follow counsel so 
 convincingly given ; but if our effort to place on record a coherent 
 history of the ancient family of Lauder should end in comparative 
 failure, the result will be attributable not to the lack of material, 
 but rather to its ineffective application. 
 
CHAR I. 
 
 It is customary in such works as the present to devote some 
 space to a consideration of the probable origin and meaning of the 
 name of the family whose history is being traced. A writer in the 
 Encyclopedia Britannica says—" Names, and the study of proper 
 names of persons and places, are not without scientific and historical 
 importance, but, on the whole, are perhaps matter of curious 
 interest." That this observation is in general true, few will be 
 disposed to deny ; but, in going back on the records of a particular 
 family, much more than mere "curious interest" is evoked: 
 
 " Our names and ancestry, renowned or no, 
 Free from dishonour 'tis our pride to show." 
 
 All proper names originally conveyed a meaning, and conjecture 
 has not been idle with the name of Lauder, as the following 
 quotations will demonstrate : — 
 
 Sir Edmund Burke says : " The surname of Lauder, anciently 
 De Lavedre, is of Norman origin." Nisbet, in his System of 
 Heraldry, remarks : " Those of the name of Lawider, or Lauder, 
 or Lauther, which is differently wrote, according to the customs of 
 ancient times, and the different apprehensions of the writers, for 
 
14 HISTOEY OF 
 
 the name is local from the town and lands of Lauder, i.e., lower 
 than the hills that surround it, of which they have been ancient 
 possessors, . . . were designed Lauders of that Ilk, or of 
 Lauder-Tower." Anderson's Scottish Nation refers to the name 
 thus : " Lauder, a surname said to have been originally de 
 Lavedre. The surname, however, is more likely to have been 
 derived from the Leader water, called by Camden, in his Britannia, 
 Lauder ; the vale through which it flows being, from a very early 
 period, called Lauderdale. The Celtic word Laudur, signifying 
 the lesser river, or the river which breaks forth, is thought by 
 some to apply to the Leader, which occasionally, after heavy rains, 
 overflows its banks, and overspreads the neighbouring lands." 
 Cosmo Innes, in his work, Concerning some Scotch Surnames, gives 
 Lauder as a place-name ; whilst M. A. Lower, in his Patronymica 
 Britannica, has the following : — 
 
 " Lauder. — -A royal burgh in Berwickshire which gives name 
 to the district of Lauderdale. 
 
 Lawder. — A parish in Berwickshire, hodie Lauder. 
 
 Lauderdale. — The great district of Berwickshire, which gives 
 title to the noble house of Maitland, in old times gave a surname 
 to this family." 
 
 Writing on this subject recently in Notes and Queries, Mr. 
 C. H. E. Carmichael says: — 
 
 "Any inquiry concerning the origin and meaning of a name of that ilk is 
 equivalent to an inquiry into the origin and meaning of the place-name from which 
 it was assumed. It seems to be admitted on all hands that the name of the royal 
 burgh of Lauder, and consequently that of the ancient house of Lauder of that ilk, 
 is derived from the water of Leader, sometimes written Lauder, which flows through, 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 15 
 
 and gives its name to, the Lauderdale. Testimony to this effect is concurrently 
 borne by Anderson, Scottish Nation, s.v. Lauder of that ilk and of the Bass, and by 
 Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, s.v. Lauder, Royal Burgh. 
 
 Granted by David L to Hugh de Moreville, Constable of Scotland, a portion of 
 the Lauder estate, viz., the lands of Thirlstane, was given by the Constable to one of 
 his kinsmen, whose heiress carried it into the house of Maitland. And the Earl of 
 Lauderdale is still the principal heritor in the parish. The two forms, Lauder and 
 Leader, are shewn concurrently in use by Lewis, when he says (op. cit.) that the 
 town [i.e., Lauder] is delightfully situated in the centre of the vale, upon gently 
 rising ground between the river Leader and the south burn of Lauder. . . . 
 What the name of the water of Leader, or Lauder, may mean, I must leave to Celtic 
 scholars to explain. It is enough for me to have shown the source of the name of 
 the Lauders of that ilk and of the Bass." 
 
 In making this last assertion the writer "protests too much" ; 
 and although we cannot but hesitate in differing from his opinion, 
 the following considerations will, we think, go far to prove that 
 his conclusions, and those of the other authorities cited, are, with 
 the exception of Burke, erroneous and untenable. 
 
 It is scarcely necessary seriously to discuss the theory that 
 Lauder owes its name to the fact that it is situated lower than the 
 adjacent hills, a situation not peculiar to that town, whilst we shall 
 dismiss, as hardly more deserving of notice, the suggestion that the 
 Leader has been so called, on account of its breaking forth from 
 time to time and overflowing its banks, a riparian casualty of which 
 the Leader has, by no means, a monopoly. 
 
 That De Lavedre was a place-name is more than likely, but it 
 is very improbable that the place was Lauder. 
 
 The first De Lavedre, as distinctly stated by Burke, bore that 
 appellation in 1056, and at that time gave his name to the estate 
 which he had received from the king. In all likelihood, the original 
 
16 HISTORY OF 
 
 name was De Lawedre, as the "w" appears in the names of several 
 of the successors of the first baron ; and it has been pointed out by 
 a writer on the subject, that the presence of this letter, in the name 
 of a Norman baron, indicates a Flemish origin for its bearer. And 
 this suggestion of an original "w" is rendered all the more probable 
 by the fact that, in various old charters — to which further reference 
 will presently be made — the name of the place is spelled Lauueder, 
 an orthography which is also to be found on a fac-simile of a 
 " Portion of the ancient parochial map of Scotland," attached to 
 the Origines Parochiales Scotios. 
 
 It by no means follows, that because a family is now known as 
 "of that ilk," the place-name must necessarily have been in 
 existence prior to the surname. Lauder is a case in point ; Lauder 
 of Lauder, became by analogy Lauder of that ilk, solely on account 
 of the fact that the names were identical, and without regard to 
 whether the place-name or the surname were the original. 
 
 Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, says (s.v. Ilk) : — 
 
 " Some have supposed, that where any family has this title, the family surname 
 has originally been imposed on the estate. Camden clearly shews, that the reverse 
 has been the case in England; that families of this description have had their 
 surnames from their lands. This he proves incontestably from the existence of the 
 names of such places, before any surnames were used in England; as well as from 
 the signification, structure, and termination of some of these names. It is highly 
 probable that the same observation is, in most instances, also applicable to 
 Scotland. Such designations as MacFarlane of MacFarlane, MacNab of MacNab, 
 and many others of the same kind, plainly declare that the lands have been 
 denominated from the surnames of the families ; because these are patronymics, 
 and could not originally belong to possessions. . . . According to Boece, 
 Malcolm Canmore, in a Parliament held at Forfar, rewarded the nobles who 
 adhered to him, ordaining that, after the custom of other nations, they should 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 17 
 
 take their surnames from their lands, which had not been the case in former 
 times ; tit quod antea non fiterat, aliarum more gentium, a praediis suis cognomina 
 caperent. At this time, he adds, many new surnames were given to Scottish 
 families, as Calder, Locart, Gordon, Setoun, etc., and many other names of 
 possessions, from which those brave men, who had received them from the 
 king as the reward of their valour, derived their names. This account is 
 confirmed by Buchanan, from the extract he had received from the records of 
 Icolmkill." 
 
 A writer of authority on this subject has stated that Ilk does 
 not essentially refer to the estate, because many chiefs parted with 
 their original estates, and afterwards used that title long ; as for 
 example — Porterfield, Ralstoun, Whitefurd, etc., of that ilk. 
 
 Now, there is nothing in the preceding extracts tending to 
 show that Lauder must necessarily be a place-name. Lower, 
 Patronymica Britannica, says : " It is asserted in Father Augustin 
 Hoy's ' Genealogie of the Sainteclairs ' that Malcolm Canmore 
 called a general council at Forfar, in 1061, in which he directed 
 his chief subjects to adopt names from their territorial possessions." 
 He continues : " I cannot say, however, that I have seen any 
 proof of territorial surnames in Scotland before the xn. century, 
 and they are certainly unusual before the xm." Taking this 
 remark in conjunction with the fact that De Lavedre was so 
 designated in 1056, consequently five years previous to the holding 
 of the parliament above referred to, and that Burke positively 
 states that the name was given to his lands, there can be little 
 difficulty in arriving at a decision in favour of the theory that, in 
 this case, the surname was anterior to the place-name. " I see no 
 reason," proceeds the writer just quoted, "for departing from the 
 year 1000 as the proximate date for the assumption of family 
 names. The practice commenced in Normandy, and gradually 
 
18 HISTORY OF 
 
 extended itself into England, Scotland, and Ireland." Camden 
 remarked that there is no "village in Normandy that gave not 
 denomination to some family in England." Lower says regarding 
 . Scotland : " Many of the Norman noblesse who had brought 
 family names across the channel, transferred themselves to North 
 Britain, and of course did not drop those designations into the 
 river Tweed." 
 
 Dixon, writing on the subject of surnames, says that until 
 within about the last two centuries, the orthography of but few had 
 become fixed; they being generally written according to the fancy 
 of the writer, and, when spelled as pronounced, often lost all trace 
 of their original. A glance through the pages of the Appendix to 
 this volume will show a bewildering diversification in the ortho- 
 graphy of the name of Lauder, which is often spelled several 
 different ways in one and the same document. 
 
 That the name of the town of Lauder and that of the river 
 Leader were ever synonymous, is an idea which the following 
 extracts from the Liber Sancte Marie de Melros will show to be 
 inadmissible : — 
 
 Carta Regis de terris de Melros, Eldune et Dernevvic, cum 
 pasturis et piscaturis. Aqua de Leder. Rege David 1124-1153. 
 
 Confirmatio Regis de terris quas dedit Rex David, cum 
 piscaturis de Seleschirche et Berwickstrem. Fluvius de Ledre. 
 Rege Malcolmo IV. 1153-1165. 
 
 This form is maintained in several other charters Rege 
 Willelmo 1 165-12 14. Under this reign there is a "Carta Alani 
 Gonstabularii Scotie, de Alwentchawis," in which mention is made 
 of terras in territorio de Lauuedir. 
 
 This spelling is also applied to the family name in another 
 
THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 19 
 
 document : Confirmatio Patricii de Dunbar, comitis Marchie, de 
 terris monasterii infra dominium suum. Robertus de Lmmedirr 
 tunc noster seneschallus. Rege Roberto 1 . 1 306- 1329. 
 
 The change of the double "u" into "w" is shown in a document 
 written in French, and dated 4th September, 13 19. It is entitled: 
 " Lettre d'attorne pur doner seysine," and is granted to " Robert 
 de Lawedir Justice de Lounes, . . . Donez a la langley en la 
 terre de Meuros le quart ior de Septembre en Ian de grace m ccc 
 et disneifme." 
 
 Another variation appears in the following : — Carta Georgii 
 comitis Marchie de toto bosco super territorio vocato le 
 Soroulesfeilde. Robertus de Lawed,re, consanguineus noster. Rege 
 Roberto III. 1390-1406; whilst in two later documents the name 
 is again diversified : Magisier Willielmus de Lawedirr, archi- 
 diaconus Laudonie. Rege Jacobo I. 1406-1436. Magister 
 Robertus de Lauedre, canonicus Glasguensis. Rege Jacobo II. 
 1436-1460. 
 
 In a charter of King Malcolm IV. to the monks of Melros, of 
 the lands of Galtuneside, the following sentence occurs in defining 
 the boundaries : "As the river Leder falls into the Tweed, and 
 thence upwards as far as the burn of Fauhope, which falls into the 
 Ledre, and thence upwards by the same burn, etc.;" and in a 
 charter of William the Lion (1 165-12 14), both Lauueder and 
 Lauuederdale are mentioned, as is also Loweder in another 
 document of the same reiem. In this latter charter reference is 
 made to the "great causeway which descends from Windeslaue 
 to Lauwder ;" and in 1208 there is a charter of arable lands west 
 of the Leder, between the road going towards Louueder and the 
 Leder. 
 
-20 HISTORY OF 
 
 A near approach to the modern spelling is found in a document : 
 Renunciato Roberti Lawder de eodem, de terra debatabili de 
 Alanschawis et ly Mercleuch. Roberhis Lawder, — Valterus 
 Lawdar, — villa de Lawder. Rege Jacobo IV. 1488-15 13. 
 
 From these records it can, therefore, be seen that there 
 existed concurrently at that remote period : the family name, de 
 Lauueder ; the place-name, Lauuedir ; and finally, the name of 
 the river, Leder or Ledre. 
 
 It thus appears to be only reasonable that the testimony of 
 these documents should be taken in preference to the various 
 theories of the authorities cited, whatever may be the weight of 
 their individual opinion. We consequently find that the surname 
 Lauder can be traced back to the forms, Lauuedir or Lawedir ; that 
 this form is probably of Flemish origin ; that the first De Lavedre ' 
 is stated to have been an Anglo-Norman baron; and seeing that 
 Flemish barons came over with the Normans ; considering further 
 that the Griffin was, and has continued to be, the emblem borne 
 on the coat of arms of the Lauders, and that — as will be seen 
 from the following chapter — this symbol was especially frequent 
 with the Germans; we venture to hazard the surmise that it is to 
 Germany we have to look for the source whence the Lauder 
 family has originally sprung. 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 21 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 It has been truly said that an inquiry into the Heraldry of the 
 past leads us back direct to the fountain-head of human history, 
 and it is no less true that an investigation into the origin of the 
 coat of arms borne by a particular family, irrefragably confirms what 
 is true in its traditions, and fills up lacunae in its annals with 
 events, which would otherwise be lost in oblivion. 
 
 Many writers maintain that Heraldry had its origin in Assyria, 
 and adduce in support of that contention the similarity of the 
 principal heraldic animals to those found on Assyrian sculptures. 
 Nisbet, in fact, mentions even greater antiquity as being within the 
 bounds of probability. He says : " Some conclude that the use of 
 arms was antediluvian, and after the flood, was continued among 
 the children of Noah, and afterwards, more particularly, and in 
 greater perfection among the Children of Israel, as they endeavour 
 to prove from the prophecy of Jacob and Moses, and more 
 especially from the second chapter of the Book of Numbers, where 
 God gives express command, ' that every man of the Children of 
 Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of his 
 father's house.' And further, they urge the use and practice of 
 armories in succeeding ages among the Egyptians, Assyrians, 
 Grecians and Romans." 
 
22 HISTOEY OF 
 
 Be that as it may, it is beyond doubt that coats of arms had 
 their origin in the East, and perhaps nothing contributed so much 
 to their permanent adoption in Europe as the Crusades, especially 
 the last three (1191-1248) in which the nobility of all Christian 
 lands was represented. 
 
 Many German writers on Heraldry claim for the Fatherland 
 the earliest adoption of the custom of wearing coats of arms. 
 Hefner writes: "Da nun sicherlich die Vermehrung der Wappen bei 
 alien abendlandischen kristlichen Volkern ziemlich gleichen Schritt 
 gehalten haben wird, so konnen wir nicht wol behaupten dass die 
 Deutschen die ersten Wappen gehabt haben, aber viel lasst sich 
 festhalten dass sie kein anderes Volk friiher gehabt haben als eben 
 das Deutsche." Hefner thus contends that if the Germans were 
 not the first to carry coats of arms, there was no other people who 
 had done so before them ; and he adds that the oldest known Roll 
 of Arms is a German one — the Zurich Wappenrolle — consisting of 
 thirteen sheets of parchment, and containing 478 coats of arms. 
 A portion containing other 109 shields has been lost. 
 
 According to Mr. Boutell, Heraldry in England may be 
 considered to have first assumed a definite and systematic character 
 during the reign of Henry III. (1216-1272), and consequently it 
 would be futile to attempt to discover what were the original 
 armorial bearings of the earliest barons De Lavedre of whom we 
 have cognisance. There appears to be good presumptive reason 
 for discarding the theory of dimidiation — to which further reference 
 will presently be made — and for assuming that the Lauder symbol 
 of the Griffin originated with the " Soldier of the Cross," who, 
 in all probability, bore it in Palestine during the third crusade. 
 
 In the opening pages of the Appendix will be found extracts 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 
 
 from various authorities on the subject of the armorial bearings 
 assumed by the different branches of the family of Lauder. 
 
 For the sake of perspicuity, the following resumd is submitted 
 to the reader : — 
 
 Lauder of that ilk or of Laudertower. This, the original 
 family, is said by Nisbet to have carried a Griffin for their armorial 
 figure. 
 
 Lauder of Hatton. Arg. a griffin salient (segrdant) sable, 
 winged, beaked and armed gules, holding a sword with its fore- 
 foot, supporting a Saracen's head, proper ; crest, a tower with a 
 demi-griffin issuing out of the top of it : motto, Strike alike. 
 According to Stodart, the tower was added for crest, with the 
 motto : " Vivit post funera virtus." 
 
 Note. — Alan Lauder, the first designed of Hatton, was not the first to assume 
 the Saracen's head. A reference to Nisbet (see App., p. vii.) will show 
 that the sword and Saracen's head had been adopted by some of the earlier 
 descendants of the Crusader. 
 
 Lauder of Newington is said by Stodart to have registered 
 arms 1672-78 — gules, a griffin salient arg. in dexter canton a tower 
 or; crest, a balance equilibriated or; motto, Mediocria Jirtna. 
 Burke gives the griffin "segreant sable." 
 
 Lauder of Fountainhall had a patent of arms in 1699, gules 
 a griffin rampant argent, armed and langued of the first, within a 
 bordure of the second, and the badge of Nova Scotia in the dexter 
 chief point ; crest, a tower arg., masoned sable, with the port-cull'is 
 down, on the top of the embattlement a man in a watching posture : 
 
 ■motto, Ttirris prudentia custos; supporters, two lions rampant arg. 
 standing on a compartment, on which are these words, ut 
 
 ■ mtgraturus habita. 
 
24 HISTOKY OF 
 
 Lauder of Bass carried gules, a griffin salient, within a double 
 tressure flowered and counterflowered argent; crest, a solan-goose 
 sitting on a rock, proper : motto, Sub umbra alarum titarum; 
 supporters, two angels, proper. 
 
 Note. — Nisbet (vol. i., p. 343) states that the Lauders of Bass carried gules, a 
 lion rampant argent, etc., and cites Ponts' and Workman's manuscripts, 
 where these arms are supported with two lions. But the lion is probably 
 an error, as further on (p. 432) he gives the arms as above. Sir Thomas 
 Dick-Lauder, in a letter to Mr. Crawford, W.S. (App., p. xlix.), dated 1 8th 
 December, 1847, states that the Lauders of Bass made several changes upon 
 the original family arms, for, whilst they preserved the griffin on the shield, 
 they took angels for supporters instead of the white lion used by the chief, 
 and instead of the crest of the chief family, a tower with a man in a 
 watching posture looking out of it, they assumed the crest of a gannet 
 sitting upon a rock. The Lauders of Bass, anterior to Robert Lauder, 
 younger, sometimes had lions for supporters, for these barons were not 
 solely designated as " of Bass." This may account for a remark by Nisbet 
 regarding the armorial bearings of Lauder of Bass, to the effect that in 
 some books they were supported by two lions, but upon an old stone in 
 the church of North Berwick the arms are supported by two angels, proper. 
 Stodart, sub. " Lauder of ye Bass," gives an extract from " Workman's 
 Illuminated Heraldic Manuscript" (1565-6), "supporter added on the 
 sinister side a lion sejant gardant." 
 
 Lauder of Belhaven and Westbarnes. Arms, the same as 
 of Bass, charging the griffin's breast with a heart ensigned with an 
 imperial crown, all proper, for difference — his wife having been a 
 Douglas. Crest, the trunk of an old tree budding, proper ; motto, 
 Repullulat. 
 
 Lauder of Winepark, 1745. Gules, a griffin segrdant arg. 
 within a bordure of the last, charged with four hearts, ensigned 
 with imperial crowns, proper, and as many crescents gules. Crest, 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 25 
 
 a dexter hand holding a scimitar, and on the point thereof a 
 Saracen's head, all proper. 
 
 Dick-Lauder of Fountainhall (1688). Quarterly, first and 
 fourth a griffin segrdant, within a bordure argent for Lauder ; 
 second and third, argent a fess wavy az. between three mullets 
 gules for Dick. Crests : for Lauder, a tov/er embattled argent, 
 massoned sable, thereon a man in a watching posture full-faced, his 
 head and shoulders only appearing, proper ; for Dick : a stag's 
 head erased, proper, attired or. Mottoes : for Lauder, Ttcrris 
 prudentia custos; for Dick, Virtute. 
 
 Stodart says that the griffin segreant appears on very old seals, 
 and that so far back as 1425 the then Sir Robert Lauder of the 
 Bass bore the royal tressure, with the lions as supporters. 
 
 Thus the constituent or essential feature of the Lauder coat of 
 arms is the Griffin, whilst the Lion used as supporter is 
 probably one of the most primitive of heraldic figures. Nisbet 
 says that the Griffin is a chimerical creature, half an eagle and half 
 a lion, frequent in arms, especially with the Germans. He adds 
 that the griffin is said by some to be the symbol of ecclesiastical 
 and civil authority joined together ; the first indicated by the fore- 
 part of the eagle, and the other by the hinder part of the lion. 
 And he continues : " Others say the griffin, by its fore-parts, 
 represents wisdom, as Chassaneus : ' Gryphus significat sapientiam 
 jungendam fortiiudine, sed sapientiam debere prcsire, fortitudinem 
 segni.' Its proper posture in armories is to be rampant or salient, 
 and then sometimes said by the English to be segrdant." 
 
 Another version is given by Marc de Wilson, Sieur de la 
 
 Colombiere, La Science Hdro'ique (1669). He says: — " Les 
 
 Griffons sont animaux imaginaires, grotesques, et chimeriques 
 
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HISTOEY OF 
 
 qui ne se trouvent qu'en peinture, lesquels les anciens ont feint 
 estre moitie Aigles et moitie Lions, pour denoter la force jointe 
 avec la vitesse, et vne ardente vigilence a. garder les choses 
 qui leur sont commises ; comme les naturalistes Payens ont fait 
 croire aux ignorans, que ces animaux gardoient les mines d'or avec 
 vne vigilance continuelle, et en defendoient 1'acces avec vne 
 obstination enragee. Les memes anciens avoient le Griffon en vne 
 si grande estime qu'ils disoient que le Dieu Apollon s'en servoit 
 bien souvent pour tirer son chariot, comme nous le colligeons de 
 ces deux vers de Claudian : 
 
 At si Phoebus adest, et frgenis gripha jugales 
 Riphceo tripodas repetens detorsit ab axe." 
 
 In writing under this head, Boutell says that the Griffin 
 or Gryphon, combining as it does the bodily attributes of the 
 lion and the eagle, is of the same family with a group of the 
 sculptured figures of Assyria, its customary attitude being erect, 
 with wings expanded. He also elsewhere remarks that unless 
 this monster be held to be a veritable member of the family of 
 mediaeval griffins, whose ancestry flourished in the remote ages 
 of Assyrian greatness, the griffin of English heraldry might 
 reasonably be regarded as the product of a development of the 
 practice of dimidiation. 
 
 This so-called dimidiation was a method of impalement, and 
 consisted in cutting into halves, by a vertical section, each coat of 
 arms, and taking the dexter half of the husband's arms, and the 
 sinister half of the wife's arms, and placing the two halves side by 
 side in contact, to form a single combined armorial composition. 
 This manner of Impalement by Dimidiation, as it was styled, 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 27 
 
 appears to have been extended into English heraldry during the 
 reign of Edward I. (1272-1307.) 
 
 We take the liberty of appending here an extract from the 
 letter already referred to, as having been contributed by Mr. 
 C. H. E. Carmichael to a recent number of Notes and Queries. 
 
 "The griffin in the coat of Lauder of that ilk does not afford any clue to the 
 meaning of the name, nor do I find any special symbolism attributed to this animal 
 of heraldic invention. It does not seem to be definitely ascertained whether it 
 arose from the practice of dimidiation, as Mr. Boutell in one place suggests, or from 
 the use of the similar, perhaps identical, animal in Assyria, as suggested in another 
 part of Mr. Boutell's Heraldry. I cannot say that I think the Assyrian origin very 
 probable. I should prefer the dimidiation theory, unless it be altogether a creature 
 of fancy, as Sir Bernard Burke holds {Gen, Armory s.v.)." 
 
 Hefner, whom we have already cited, catalogues the Griffin 
 amongst "Monsters" (Ungeheuer). He allows its dual com- 
 position, and says of this emblem: "Der Greif ist im oberen Theil 
 Vo^el, im untern Lowe, und seine Vorderfiisse sind daher Vogel- 
 krallen, seine Hinterflisse Lowenpranken. Dass der Greif den 
 Schweif zwischen den Fiissen eingezogen tragen solle oder miisse 
 wird durch Hunderte von alten Mustern widerlegt, u. a. (Schwarz 
 in Silber) Laudyr, Schottland." 
 
 From a remark in the foregoing quotation, there is a plain 
 inference that at one time it was the habit in Germany to represent 
 the Griffin with his tail drawn under him. If this were the early 
 form of the figure, and the hinder-part be really the hinder-part 
 of a lion, the idea will occur to many that the original symbol — a 
 lion with his tail between his legs, although not altogether unknown 
 in heraldry, was not the most war-like emblem imaginable. The 
 bearer of such a coat of arms might have adopted the appropriate 
 motto : — In curso prceceleri salus. 
 
28 HISTORY OF 
 
 Whatever be the real origin of the Griffin, it is extremely 
 difficult to imagine that the dimidiation hypothesis satisfactorily 
 accounts for it. The Assyrian derivation of the figure is much the 
 more probable. 
 
 It may be noticed en passant that the " old example " of a 
 griffin with up-lifted tail, to which Hefner makes reference, appears 
 to be that carried by the Lauders of Hatton; a,rgent a griffin 
 salient sable. 
 
 Allusion is made in a previous page to an observation of 
 Stodart's, to the effect that, in 1425, the then Sir Robert Lauder 
 of the Bass bore the Royal Tressure. This tressure, Boutell 
 explains, " is a double orle enriched with fleur-de-lys : it is 
 blasoned on the Royal shield and in several of the baronial shields 
 of Scotland." In heraldry the fleur-de-lys is generally emblematic 
 of royalty. Boutell says that the tressure first appears on the 
 shields of Alexander III. a.d. 1 249-1 287. It is not easy to 
 reconcile this statement with Stodart's assertion above referred to, 
 which claims the existence of the Royal Tressure twenty-four years 
 before the earliest date mentioned by Boutell. 
 
 In the Appendix (p. x.) will be found an extract from Sir 
 George Mackenzie's Science of Heraldry, in which he gives a 
 quaint description of the nature and purpose of the orle, bordure, 
 and tressure. He says that the orle is a small inward bordure, the 
 tressure being a diminutive of the orle ; and where there are two 
 of these, as in the arms of Scotland, it is a tcenia gemella, or double 
 tressure. There seems to be a probability that the right to carry 
 the royal tressure on their armorial bearings was granted to the 
 Lauders of Bass about the period of its introduction into Scottish 
 heraldry, in recompense of some signal service rendered to the 
 
THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 29 
 
 Crown at a time which may have been considerably earlier than 
 the extension of the tressure to English heraldry, on account of 
 the close alliance then existing between Scotland and France. 
 
 Nisbet, however, seems again to differ from the authorities just 
 cited. He says of the tressure :—" This armorial figure has been 
 of old used in the royal ensign of the Kings of Scotland, to 
 perpetuate the ancient and memorable league between them and 
 the Kings of France. It has been communicated by our Kings — 
 first to their children, and afterwards to their eminent subjects. 
 David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother to King William, carried on 
 his arms a double tressure. By our ancient and modern practice 
 the double tressure is not allowed to be carried by any subject 
 without a special warrant from the sovereign, and that in these 
 two cases : firstly, to those who were descended of daughters of 
 the Royal family ; secondly, to those who have merited well of 
 their king and country, as a special additament of honour." If 
 Stodart and Boutell be correct in assigning the introduction of the 
 tressure in Scotland to the thirteenth century, Nisbet must be 
 egregiously mistaken in asserting its existence in the time of 
 William the Lion, whose brother, David, Earl of Huntingdon, 
 was accompanied to Palestine by Robertus de Lavedre in 1188. 
 
30 HISTORY OF 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 On the death of Duncan, King of Scotland, who was 
 assassinated by Macbeth at Bothgowanan, near Elgin, in 1039, 
 his two infant sons, ultimately known as Malcolm Canmore and 
 Donald Bane, fled from the usurper, Malcolm taking refuge in 
 Cumberland, whilst Donald found an asylum in the Hebrides. 
 Their mother was sister to Siward, Earl of Northumberland ; and 
 this powerful noble, instigated by Macduff, the potent Maormor of 
 Fife — who had fled from the Scottish Court in consequence of the 
 threatening attitude which Macbeth had assumed towards him — 
 invaded Scotland in 1054 with a numerous army ; displaying his 
 banner on behalf of his nephew, the banished Malcolm. The 
 invading army, bent on redressing the wrongs of Malcolm, and 
 avenging the slights to which Macduff had been exposed by 
 Macbeth, left Northumberland, with the approbation, perhaps by 
 the command, of Edward the Confessor, and, under the Danish 
 Earl, its commander, engaged Macbeth's forces in the neigh- 
 bourhood of the regicide's celebrated castle of Dunsinnan. 
 Macbeth was defeated, and escaped from the battle ; but Osbert 
 Siward's son, was killed. Siward returned to Northumberland 
 and died at York in 1055. Meanwhile, Malcolm, assisted by a 
 number of Anglo-Norman barons, whom Siward had led into the 
 field, continued his conflict with Macbeth ; and it is amongst this 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 31 
 
 company of Anglo-Normans that the first De Lavedre, of whom 
 there is historical record, comes into view. Macbeth was slain at 
 Lumphanan by Macduff, on the 5th December, 1056, and his 
 kinsman, Lulach, was placed on the throne. No party espoused 
 the cause of this feeble successor of Macbeth. Malcolm soon 
 discovered his hiding-place, and slew him at Essie, in Strathbolgie, 
 on the 3rd April, 1057. On Malcolm's efforts to recover his 
 kingdom being crowned with success, he gave grants of land to 
 the leaders of the enterprise ; and, for the important services which 
 De Lavedre had rendered, he obtained various grants of lands, 
 particularly in Berwickshire, to which, as stated on a previous page, 
 he gave his own name, according to the custom of the time, and, 
 there is authority for saying, in obedience to a direct royal 
 command to that effect. This baron was also invested with the 
 hereditary bailieship of Lauderdale. 
 
 No particular record seems to have been found respecting the 
 three immediate successors of this De Lavedre ; but there can be 
 no doubt that the family had settled down on the estate granted 
 by Malcolm to the first baron, as, a few generations later, mention 
 is made of 
 
 Joanni Lauder, Jilio secundo de Laudertown, who was 
 succeeded by 
 
 Robertus de Lavedre, — a soldier of the Cross in 11 88, — he 
 having accompanied David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of 
 King William the Lion, to the Holy Land, in the third crusade. 
 As an emblem of his presence in Palestine at the Holy War, he 
 got for his crest a Saracen's head and a sword. The next in 
 descent was 
 
 Robert de Lavedre, whose name appears as a witness in a 
 
32 HISTOEY OF 
 
 charter of John de Mautelant, to the Abbey of Dryburgh. He 
 was succeeded by 
 
 William de Lowedre of Lowther, who was Sheriff of Perth 
 in 1251. He is witness to a charter of King Alexander III. 
 (1249-1286). After him came 
 
 Sir Robert de Lawedre of the Bass, who fought at the battle 
 of Stirling Bridge, which occurred on the 12th of September, 1297. 
 This engagement took place between Wallace, on the one part, 
 and the English army, under John Warenne, Earl of Surrey, 
 Edward's governor of Scotland, and Hugh de Cressingham, the 
 treasurer, on the other. The latter, with thousands of his devoted 
 followers, fell on the field, or perished in the Forth. This Sir 
 Robert died in 131 1. According to Nisbet there was a tombstone 
 in the aisle of the lairds of Bass, in the old church of North 
 Berwick, their burying-place, whereupon were cut in Saxon letters : 
 Hie jacet bomis Robertus Lauder magnus Dominus de Congleton et 
 Ic Bass, qui obiit mense Mail ; mcccxi. (see Appendix, p. viii.). 
 On this subject, The Bass Rock states that the tombstone bore the 
 inscription : " Here lies the good Robert Lauder, the great laird of 
 Congalton and the Bass, who died May, 13 11." This is evidently 
 a translation of the original, as the contractions quoted by Nisbet 
 point pretty clearly to the authenticity of his version. The burial- 
 place in the ' Auld Kirk" was much encroached on by the sea; the 
 tombstone has disappeared ; not a vestige now remains of the 
 former grave-yard ; and of the " Auld Kirk," which hallowed it, 
 nothing is left but a small dilapidated ruin, only its arched main 
 doorway and font being entire. This baron was succeeded by 
 
 Sir Robert de Lawedre of the Bass, who followed in his 
 father's footsteps, by attaching himself to the fortunes of Wallace 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 3S 
 
 iri his patriotic endeavours to secure the freedom of' his country. 
 He is frequently denominated " the brave associate of Sir William 
 Wallace." He had a charter from William de Lamberton, Bishop 
 of St. Andrews (copy of which will be found in the' Appendix) of 
 that portion of the island of Bass, over which the abbey of St. 
 Andrews had until then retained a right, the larger part of the 
 island having already been in possession of the Lauders for some 
 generations. The condition of this charter was an annual payment 
 of one pound of white wax in name of feu-farm: "reddendo tmdm' 
 libram cere nomine albe firme." This was confirmed by the charter 
 of John Forfar, Prior to St. Andrews, and is dated the 4th of 
 June, 1 3 16. It was stolen along with a number of other docu- 
 ments from the Grange House, Edinburgh, by a housebreaker, 
 nth September, 1836, and has never been recovered; "The 
 Grange House " was then the residence of Sir Thomas Dick 
 Lauder, Baronet. Sir Robert was ambassador to England from 
 Robert I. upon various occasions, one of these being in 1323, 
 and was engaged in similar service for King David Bruce. On 
 page xxviii. of the Appendix will be found an allusion to a ratifica- 
 tion by King Edward III. of England, et totum consilium, dated at 
 Northampton the 4th of May, 1328, of a treaty, concluded at 
 Edinburgh on the 17th March of that year, between Robert, King 
 of Scots, and the plenipotentiaries of the said King Edward III. 
 To the faithful performance of all the articles of this treaty, Sir 
 Robert swore by the soul of the King of Scots, and on the Holy 
 Gospels. This oath was taken in presence of the Bruce, and by 
 his special command. At this time Sir Robert was justiciary of 
 the Lothians and that part of Scotland to the south of the Forth. 
 The Extracts from the " Index of Records of Charters," con- 
 
Si HISTOKY OF 
 
 tained in No. xx. of the Appendix to this volume, mention several 
 charters granted by Rob. I. to this baron of the lands of Penkate- 
 land, Nisbet and Colden, and of Lethberd Mill. He was witness 
 to a charter in 1342. Sir Robert de Lawedre was present at the 
 battle of Halidon Hill, but, according to Knyghton, he was pre- 
 vented from taking any active part in it through advanced years. 
 As this battle exercised no little influence on the destiny of the 
 Quarrelwood branch of the family, it is thought expedient to take 
 notice of the event in the following chapter. 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 35 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 King Robert the Bruce died at Cardross on the 7th of 
 June, 1329, leaving Scotland somewhat in a state of unrest, and 
 not free from danger, on account of a strong desire on the part of 
 Edward III. to free himself from the obligations to which he had 
 bound himself by the treaty of Northampton alluded to in the 
 previous chapter. Mars gravior sub pace latet. David II., then 
 only eight years of age, and his youthful queen, had been crowned 
 at Scone, when Edward, son of John Baliol, seeking to overthrow 
 the dynasty of the Bruce, and assisted by a party of malcontent 
 nobles, surprised and defeated the Scots at Dupplin on the 22nd 
 September, 1332. He, thereafter, took possession of Perth, and 
 was crowned at Scone, on the 24th September, 1332. Baliol 
 acknowledged Edward III. as his feudal lord, and surrendered the 
 liberties of the kingdom. However, on the 16th December of the 
 same year, he was suddenly attacked at Annan by the Earl of 
 Moray, defeated, and driven out of Scotland. This served Edward 
 III. as a pretext to aver that the Scots had broken the treaty of 
 Northampton, to the faithful observance of which Sir Robert de 
 Lawedre had so solemnly sworn. Edward accordingly threw off 
 the mask, openly espoused the cause of Baliol; invaded Scotland 
 in person along with Baliol, and laid siege to the castle of Berwick. 
 On the 18th of July, 1333, the Scottish army crossed the Tweed 
 to relieve the besieged, and encamped at Dunsepark. Thereupon 
 
36 HISTORY OF 
 
 the King of England and Edward Baliol drew up their forces on 
 Halidon Hill, situated to the west of the town of Berwick. A 
 marsh divided the hill from the opposite eminence on which the 
 Scottish commanders had arranged their forces. The nature of 
 the ground rendered it impossible for the English position to be 
 attacked by cavalry ; the Scottish army accordingly fought on foot. 
 Contrary to the advice of the senior officers, the Scots advanced 
 through the marsh, thousands being slain by the English archers. 
 Extricated at length from the marsh, they attacked the enemy 
 with great fury ; but notwithstanding their courage and impetuosity, 
 they were too fatigued to sustain the success which had attended 
 their first attack. Many of the principal Scottish nobles and barons 
 of high rank were slain, and with them fell no fewer than fourteen 
 thousand men. This disastrous defeat took place on the 20th of 
 July, 1333. The consequences were the immediate delivery of the 
 town and castle of Berwick to the English, and the subsequent 
 submission of almost the whole kingdom to Baliol. An M.S. 
 Chronicle of England describing this battle says:— 
 
 " Ande the Scottes come in this araye in iiii bateilles ageste the ii Kingges of 
 Englond and Skottelond, as it is schewed herafter plenely by the names of the 
 Lordes, as ye mough se in this nexte writingge. .... In the iiii. warde of 
 the bateilles of Skotelond were these Lordes whose names folowe: 
 Archibald Douglas .... Roberte Laweder " 
 
 This "Roberte Laweder " is Sir Robert de Lavedre, son and suc- 
 cessor to the Sir Robert referred to at the conclusion of the pre- 
 ceding chapter. Immediately after the fatal event just delineated 
 in outline, Sir Robert, being Justiciary of the North, hastened to 
 occupy Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, for David II. It is on record 
 that this castle was one of the four Scottish stronghplds which 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 37 
 
 defied the power of Edward III.; the others were : Dumbarton, held 
 by Malcolm Fleming ; Lochleven, by Allan de Vipont ; Kildrum- 
 rnie, by Christian Bruce, sister of Robert the First. The castle of 
 Lophmaben is also said to have been held for David Bruce by 
 Patrick de Chartres; whilst a stronghold on Lochdoune, on the 
 borders of Carrick, was retained for the king by John Thomson, a 
 soldier of fortune. 
 
 De orygynale cronykel of Scotland, by Wyntown, written before 
 1424, and consequently one of the oldest and best authorities 
 extant, gives the following quaint account of the occupation of 
 these strongholds : — 
 
 Throuch all Scotland brade and wyde 
 _ ■ , All worthyd Inglis men in that tyde, 
 
 Owttane foure Castellis, and A. Pele; 
 
 Dare Namys sail I tell you welle. 
 
 Dwnbrettane wes the pryncypale, 
 
 For thyddyr-wart repayryd hale 
 
 De Folk, that yharnyd til lyve frely: 
 
 Schyr Malcolme Flemyng the worthy 
 
 Of that Castelle wes Capytane. 
 
 Syne wes Loch Levyn, quharof Alane 
 
 De Vypownt Lord wes and Ledere, 
 
 Dat governyd hym welle in all that Were. 
 
 De thryd Castelle was Kylvrwmy, 
 
 Dat Dame Crystyane the Brws stowtly 
 
 Held wyth Knychtis and Sqwyeris, 
 
 Dat reddyt abowt thame welle thare Merys. 
 : ■ Syne Wrqwharde wes ye ferd Castell 
 
 De qwhilk Schyr Robert kepyt welle 
 
 of Lawedyr, that wes worthy, 
 
 And dawntyd hys nychtbowris, that war hym by. 
 
 De Pele wes syne in-to Lowch Dwne, 
 
 Dat kepyt than Jhon Thomas Swn 
 " " Wyth few men : for till assay 
 
 It weille, fere owt was of thare way. 
 
38 HISTOEY OF 
 
 It is supposed that about this time Sir Robert acquired the 
 lands of Quarrelwood, Grieshop, Brightmoney, and Kinsteary, 
 which continued to be possessed by his descendants, in the female 
 line, for many generations. He designates himself as " Robertus 
 de Lavadre, Dominus de Quarrelwood, in Moravia," and by that 
 title gives a charter of lands in and near his burgh of Lauder to 
 Thomas de Borthwick, which is witnessed by John de Mauteland 
 (Maitland), the sixth of the Lauderdale family. This Sir Robert 
 de Lavedre was granted a charter by John Pelmore, Bishop of 
 Moray, for good services, of the half-davoch lands of "Aber- 
 breachy," and the lands of Auchmunie, within the barony of 
 Urquhart, for payment of four merks yearly, dated at Elgin, 1333, 
 On page xxvii. of the Appendix, a reference will be found to a 
 pension granted to Robert Lauder, justice by-north the Water of 
 Forth to " Roberto de Lawedre, militi, annue pensionis 20I. de 
 exitibus justiciarie ex parte boriali aque de Forth," dated at Dun- 
 fermline, 1st October, 1362. He founded a chaplaincy in the 
 Cathedral Church of Moray, the deed being dated at Dunfermline, 
 1st May, 1362. The gift is confirmed by a writ from King David 
 Bruce, dated at Elgin, 10th May, 1367. 
 
 Like his grandfather, this Sir Robert seems also to have been 
 called "the good," as Fordun's Scotichronicon alludes to him as 
 " Thomas (Robertus) de Lavedir, qui vocatus est Sonus"; whilst in 
 the Extracta ex variis Cronicis Scocie he is denominated ''Robertus 
 Lawdyr, vocatur bonus" (See Appendix, p. xxvi.). This Sir 
 Robert is said to have been not only alive when his great- 
 granddaughter was married in January, 1365, but able to enter into 
 a deed with his grandson in 1366. He must have attained to a 
 patriarchal age. 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 39 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 Sir Alan de Lawedre succeeded his father, Sir Robert, and 
 was afterwards designed "of Hatton," having been granted a 
 charter by Robert II. "of the town and lands of Haltoune, in the 
 barony of Rathow, vie. de Edinburgh, whilk John de Haltoun 
 resigned." In 1370, the same monarch confirmed to him charters 
 of the lands of Whiteslade, Birkyside, Lygeardwood, Monston, 
 Merton, Urmontston, etc., for further details regarding which the 
 reader is referred to Appendix, No. xx. Sir Alan married Alicia 
 Campbell, a daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Lochawe, ninth of 
 the Argyle family, and predecessor to the Earl of Argyle. Under 
 date, St. Andrews, 13th June, 1371, King Robert II. confirmed to 
 them two carrucates of land in Norton, in the county of Edinburgh, 
 given when he was Steward of Scotland, and on the 10th of March 
 following, Sir Alan received "una protectione perpetua" from that 
 king, who seems to have held him in high esteem. He also 
 received at that time a charter for half of the lands of Lauder. 
 Several of these charters were granted with the consent of King 
 Robert's eldest son and heir, John, who afterwards reigned under 
 the title of Robert III. The Rotuli Scotice record several safe- 
 conducts from Edward III., viz.: — for Alanus de Lawedre, 8th 
 February, 1358-9; Robertus, fil. Alani de Lawedre, mercatore, 
 
40 . HISTOEY OF 
 
 4th November, 1364; Alanus de Lauwedyr de Scotia, 3rd May, 
 1373 ; whilst from Henry IV. there is a safe-conduct for Willielmus 
 de Lawadir and Alanus de Lawedir de Scotia, 18th September, 
 1404. Among the original deeds of Hatton was a confirmation 
 granted by Robert, King of Scots, to John of Halton, of the town 
 and lands of Halton, dated Scone, nth June, 1374; and in the 
 same year, the king gifted to " Allan de Lawdre " ten pounds 
 sterling yearly as his salary for being Justiciary-Clerk "upon the 
 South side of the Water of Perth." It may be presumed that the 
 salary here alluded to is identical with the one mentioned in the 
 Index of Records of Charters (Appendix, No. xx.), where it is 
 spoken of as " ane pension furth of the justiciarie be-south Forth." 
 In 1368 Alan de Lauder was fined ^"1000 "for disturbing the 
 justiciar's court, and using words contemptuous of the king and 
 the judges." Sir Alan was Constable or keeper of Tantallan 
 Castle, and on page lix. of the Appendix will be found copy of a 
 charter dated there, 1 381-1388, by which he receives from James, 
 Lord Douglas, a grant of certain specified lands in North Berwick. 
 In the early years of the 15th century he was killed with the 
 Douglas in Spain. Sir Alan de Lawedre had by his wife, Alicia 
 Campbell, three sons: Robert, his successor; Alexander, Bishop 
 of Dunkeld ; and William, Bishop of Glasgow and Chancellor of 
 Scotland. As these two ecclesiastics occupied a very prominent 
 position in the kingdom, and were frequently charged with missions 
 of High State, it may be of advantage to review what is known 
 regarding them, before reverting to Sir Alan's successor, Sir 
 Robert Lawedre of Bass. 
 
THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 41 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 Alexander Lauder, Bishop of Dunkeld, son of Sir Alan 
 Lauder of Hatton, is stated by Keith to have been brother- 
 german to the Bishop of Glasgow, whilst Fordun designates 
 him " venerabilis vir, et omni morum probitate conspicuus, 
 magister Alexander Lawedre, rector de Ratho, frater uterinus 
 recolendae memorise domini Willelmi episcopi Glasguensis et 
 regni cancellarii." He was promoted to the see of Dunkeld 
 ad requcestum regis in the month of May, 1440, and died at 
 Edinburgh on the nth October following. He was interred in 
 the parish church of Lauder, the burying-place of his ancestors. 
 He had a safe-conduct from Hen. VI., 13th May, 1423, and on 
 the 19th November of that year. Another was furnished him on 
 8th June, 1424, and again he had a safe-conduct 30th November, 
 
 I432- 
 
 William Lauder, Bishop of Glasgow, a younger son of Sir 
 Alan Lauder of Hatton, was first archdeacon of Lothian. In the 
 year 1405, he has a safe-conduct from King Hen. VI. " Magistro 
 Gulielmo Lauder archidiacono Laudoniae, veniendo in regnum 
 Angliae penes praesentiam regis pro quibusdam expediendis ;" and 
 another on 5th July, 1406. The see of Glasgow becoming vacant 
 
 in 1408, Lauder was preferred by Pope Benedict XIII., who, at 
 
 / 
 
42 HISTOEY OF 
 
 Avignon, then contested the papal supremacy with Gregory XII. 
 at Rome, and consequently did not hold his appointment by the 
 election of the chapter. In 1423, Murdoch, Duke of Albany, 
 Regent of Scotland, made him Lord Chancellor in succession to 
 the Bishop of Aberdeen, and on the 9th August of that year, he 
 was nominated first commissioner for treating about the redemption 
 of King James I. On 13th February, 1406, " Maistre Guillame 
 Lawedre licencie en loys Archidiacre de Louthian en leglise de 
 Saint Andrieu " is amongst the commissioners to Charles, King of 
 France, from " nostre treschier et ame cousin Robert Due d Albanie" 
 in order to renew the alliance with France against " les Anglois 
 noz enemis et aduersaires communs;" and under the same date 
 there is an instrument, " Obligatio Ludovici Regis de Jerusalem;" 
 or as in the text: "Loys roy de Jerusalem," in which "Maistre 
 G de Lawedre licencie en droit canon et ciuil, archediacre de 
 Louthiant en leglise de Saint Andrieu " is an ambassador to 
 France. He was Bishop and Lord Chancellor until his death, 
 for on the 14th June, 1425, Bishop William de Lauder was dead, 
 and the see vacant on the 19th of May following. Bishop Lauder 
 built the Crypt under the Chapter-house of the Cathedral Church 
 of Glasgow, where the arms of Lauder of Hatton are carved in 
 several places. He also added the stone steeple and battlement 
 to the tower, already built, and placed his arms, a griffin salient 
 with a cherub for crest, on the centre panel of the western parapet, 
 were it still remains in perfect preservation. He had safe-conducts 
 from Hen. VI., 12th May and 3rd December, 1423, the latter 
 " Commissarii assignantur ad tractandum cum commissariis Scotiae." 
 Keith and Stodart both mention other three contemporary 
 prelates of the name of Lauder, but there does not appear to be 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 43 
 
 sufficient evidence to show their relationship to the two bishops 
 above referred to. These were: — 
 
 George Lauder of Balcomy, Bishop of Argyle, who was 
 vicar of Crail in 1425, and afterwards preceptor of the hospital of 
 St. Leonards at Peebles. He appears to have been promoted to 
 this bishopric about 1427, for on the 25th July of that year, King 
 James I. appointed his successor to the preceptory, then vacant by 
 his promotion. In 1444, with the concurrence of his brother Patrick, 
 he gave to the prior of St. Andrews liberty to dig stones out of his 
 quarry of Balcomy. He was " episcopus Lismoren " in 1462. 
 
 Robert Lauder, Bishop of Dunblane. The date of this 
 bishop's promotion is not clear, but he was bishop in 1449, and in 
 the year 145 1 was sent, jointly with the Bishops of Glasgow and 
 Moray, into England. This prelate, amongst several others, 
 obtained letters of safe-conduct from King Henry VI. of England, 
 dated April 22nd, 1449, and he was one of the ambassadors 
 appointed by the King of Scotland to the English monarch 3rd 
 November, that same year. And 22nd January, 1452, he and 
 several others, obtained letters of safe-conduct on going on a 
 pilgrimage to Canterbury. He was still Bishop of Dunblane in 
 
 I465- 
 
 Thomas Lauder, Bishop of Dunkeld. Thomas Lauder, 
 
 preceptor or master of Soltray hospital, and tutor to King James 
 
 II., was promoted to this see in 1452: He exercised his functions 
 
 very laboriously until the year 1476, when, being unable any longer 
 
 to endure the fatigue, by reason of his advanced age (for it was 
 
 said that he was no less than 60 years old when he had charge of 
 
 the king's education), he resigned in favour of James Livingston 
 
 the dean. He was " Magister domus hospitalis de Soltra," 1440-41 . 
 
44 HISTORY OF 
 
 This prelate built a bridge over the river Tay near to his own 
 palace: He obtained an erection of the bishop's lands on the north 
 side of that river into one barony, called the barony of Dunkeld, as 
 likewise of those on the south side to be called the barony of 
 Aberlady; and founded several chaplainries and prebends, partly 
 in Edinburgh and partly in Dunkeld. He died on the 4th 
 November, 1481. Further details regarding this bishop will be 
 found in the Appendix (pp. xv. and xxx.). 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 45 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Sir Robert Lawedre of Bass, eldest son of Sir Alan Lauder 
 of Hatton, succeeded him. He was commonly known as "Robert 
 with the boreit whynger," and must have been designated "of Bass" 
 for a considerable time anterior to the death of his father, as Burke 
 states that Robertus Laweder, Dominus de la Bass, was witness to a 
 charter of Richard Edgar to Robert Edgar of Wedderlie, in the year 
 1384, at least sixteen years prior to the death of Sir Alan, and 
 Froissart mentions "Sir Robert Lauder, a renowned hero," as 
 having been present at the battle of Otterburn, which took place 
 on the 19th August, 1388. The causus belli on this occasion was 
 the defeat of Henry de Percy, the renowned "Hotspur," by James, 
 Earl of Douglas, who overthrew the English Champion in single 
 combat and carried off his pennon. In order to recover the 
 pennon, which was placed before the Douglas's tent, Hotspur, 
 with the English army, engaged the Scots at Otterburn. He was 
 completely defeated, over three thousand of his army having been 
 left dead on the field, but the brave Douglas was killed before the 
 fate of the battle had been decided. 
 
 This conflict was followed by a series of inroads by the border 
 barons, which continued, without intermission, for over ten years, 
 when a truce was agreed upon between the English. and the Scots. 
 
46 HISTORY OF 
 
 This truce was, however, of short duration. Tytler states that the 
 eastern marshes were exposed to constant ravages by the Earl of 
 March and the Percies, the former of whom could not bear to see 
 his vast possessions in the hands of the Douglas. In order to put 
 a stop to these destructive invasions, the Scottish border barons — 
 the Hamiltons, the Hepburns, Cockburns and Lauders — assembled 
 their united power and frequently engaged the common enemy. 
 On one of these occasions, in the year 1402, this little army, under 
 Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, invaded the north of England and 
 laid waste the country. Having, however, proceeded too far, 
 Percy and March were able to intercept the Scots at Nesbit Moor, 
 where a desperate conflict took place. The Scots were only four 
 hundred strong, and the battle, which had been long, bloody and 
 doubtful, was at last decided by the arrival of two hundred men 
 from the garrison of Berwick to reinforce the English. Hepburn 
 was killed, and his bravest knights were either slain or taken 
 prisoners. This latter fate befel Sir Robert Lauder. The date 
 and means of his liberation do not appear to be on record, but on 
 15th June, 141 1, " Robertus Lawedyr, miles," has a safe-conduct 
 from Henry IV. 
 
 In 1406, Robert III., apprehensive of danger to his son James 
 (afterwards James I.), from the Duke of Albany, his brother, who 
 had shortly before then starved to death the heir apparent, David, 
 Duke of Rothesay, at Falkland Palace, placed the youthful prince 
 temporarily on the island of Bass till a vessel could be procured to 
 convey him to France. Hence he embarked, but was treacher- 
 ously way-laid under the orders of Henry IV., captured off Flam- 
 borough Head, and confined in England for the long period of 
 nineteen years. The intelligence of this untoward event caused 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 47 
 
 the death of Robert III., an occurrence which unexpectedly 
 ministered to the ambition of the Duke of Albany, who at once 
 assumed the Regency of Scotland. The following quotation from 
 Wyntown's Crony kil, already referred to, would seem to indicate 
 that at that epoque the Bass was far from being the desolate island 
 it now appears: — 
 
 Schire Davy Flemyng of Cumbirnald 
 Lord, a Knycht stout and bald, 
 Trowit and luvit wel wyth the King, 
 Our Pry nee resavit in his keiping : 
 And wyth this Lord than als-sa fast 
 Throuch Lowthiane Est on he past 
 Tyl North Berwik, and there he gat 
 A Bate, and that Lord in-til that 
 He gert be rowyt to the Bas ; 
 Thayre his Schip he bidand was. 
 
 In-to the Castell of the Bas 
 
 Oure Kingis Sone yeit bidand was, 
 
 His Schip, a quhil fra this wes done, 
 
 Dis James oure Lord the Kingis Sone, 
 
 And wyth hym of Ordinance 
 
 Of Orknay the Erie, to pas in France 
 
 And wyth hym thare for to be ; 
 
 Few wes ordanyt ma Menye. 
 
 Bot yeit he wes thare purvait wele 
 
 Of honest Clething, and Weschele 
 
 Of Silver bricht, and Jowelis ma 
 
 Our Prynce had wyth hym thare alswa-. 
 
 And quhen he saw the Schip cum down 
 
 Fra Leith, he maid hym redy bown : 
 
 Wyth hym the Erie of Orknay, thare 
 
 And all the lave, that wyth thame were, 
 
 Into that Schip thai maid Entre 
 
 In-till intent to pas the Se. 
 
48 HISTOKY OF 
 
 On 3rd February, 1423-4, "Robertus de Lawedre de Basse, chr.," 
 has a safe-conduct from Henry VI., given, it may be presumed, on 
 the occasion of his proceeding to England as one of the Scottish 
 ambassadors to that King, to treat about the liberation of King 
 James the First. Sir Robert was then designed " our lovite of the 
 Bass." He has another safe-conduct dated 13th December, 1423. 
 He married Agnes Fallow of Fallow, by whom he had, besides his 
 successor, a daughter Mariota, married to Sir Alexander Home of 
 Flome, who died in 1456. 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 49 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 Sir Robert Lawdre, called of Edrington, and designed "son 
 of our lovite of the Bass," next succeeded to the estates. It is 
 said that about the year 1450 he obtained from James II. a grant 
 of the manor of Edrington, in Berwickshire, but that property 
 appears to have been already in the possession of the family, 
 because, in a safe-conduct dated 12th May, 1423, his father is 
 designated " Robertus de Lawedre de Edryngtoune," and on 3rd 
 December of that year he is again so designed ; in both instances 
 being associated with his brother William, Bishop of Glasgow. 
 Also, in the Index to the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, Sir 
 Robert de Lauder of Edrington, is recorded as being ambassador 
 to treat for the liberation of James I. in 1423, and, according to 
 Nisbet, Sir Robert Lawder de Edrington, Dominus de le Bass, 
 was Justiciarius Laudoniae in the reign of King James I., 1406- 
 1436. 
 
 On the 2nd of February, 1477, this Sir Robert, along with 
 Lord Home and Adam Blackadcler of that ilk, was deputed by 
 James III. to conduct safely to Edinburgh those persons appointed 
 to convey from Edward IV. two thousand merks as an instalment 
 of his daughter the Princess Cecilia's dowry, this princess being 
 affianced to the eldest son and heir of the King of Scotland. The 
 
 
 
50 HISTORY OF 
 
 marriage contracted between the Princess Cecilia and James IV. 
 did not take place, but she ultimately married John, Viscount 
 Welles. 
 
 On 13th September, 1489, he purchased from Hugh, son of 
 Sir Patrick Dunbar, his lands of Beil, in East Lothian, and his mill 
 of Mersington in Berwickshire. A friendly intercourse seems long 
 to have existed between the family of Lauder and that of Dunbar, 
 " Patricius de Dunbar de Bele" being thrice included in safe- 
 conducts to this Sir Robert's father and to his uncle the Bishop of 
 Glasgow, 1 2th May, 16th September, and 3rd December, 1423. 
 This Sir Robert Lawdre, designed also of Bass, was in Parliament 
 147 1, 1478, 1 48 1, 1483, and served on a parliamentary committee, 
 1488. He had a safe-conduct from Henry VI., 30th May, 1453, 
 " novae induciae inter reges Anglise et Scotiae, cum confirmatione." 
 He married Isobel, second daughter of the first Lord Yester, 
 John Hay of Yester. Crawfurd's Peerage refers to a charter 
 to them dated 1496. Douglas's Baronage states that a marriage 
 took place in 1475 between John Swinton of that ilk and 
 Katherine, daughter of Lauder of Bass. Another daughter, 
 Margaret, was married to Alexander Home of Polwarth, by whom 
 he had three daughters: this gentleman died in 1532. 
 
 In the Carte Monialium de North Berwic, under date 5th 
 May, 1493, reference is made to " nobilis vir Robertus Laudir 
 dominus Insule de Bas." 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 51 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 Sir Robert Lawder of Bass, son of Sir Robert Lawdre of 
 Edrington, was the last of the family who used indiscriminately 
 the titles of Lauder and of Bass. He is so designated in an 
 indenture between him and the preaching friars of Dundee of date 
 1 53 1, which document was abstracted from the charter chest of 
 the Grange House on the occasion already referred to, and has 
 not been recovered. 
 
 He had a safe-conduct from Henry the Eighth in 151 1, 
 and again, along with some others, on 24th January and 27th 
 July, 15 1 2. 
 
 On the 24th September, 151 2, "Robert Lauder of ye Bass, 
 knight," was present at a trial in Edinburgh, and his name 
 appears again, 7th April, 1529, and 7th November, 1537. {Vide 
 Appendix, No. xv.) 
 
 Sir Robert built the hospital of North Berwick, and, in the 
 Protocol Book of that town (1539-62) there is allusion made to the 
 "locus hospitalitatis domini de Bas in North Berwick," elsewhere 
 designated "the Laird of Bass hospital." He is referred to in the 
 Carte Monialium de Northberwic, 24th June, 1548 ; 27th August, 
 1557 ; 14th September, 1560, and 28th March, 1562. (Appendix, 
 p. lviii.). 
 
52 HISTORY OF 
 
 Sir James Balfour states in his Annals, under date 1548, that 
 " Robert Lauder of Basse, with the Frenche garisone of Dumbar 
 castle, takes the Englische prowisione going from Berwick to 
 Hadingtone ; killes many shouldiours, and takes the Gouernor of 
 Hadingtone, named Wilford (quha had come to aid them), 
 prissoner." 
 
 Queen Mary's marriage with Bothwell, who was regarded as 
 the prime instigator of the murder of Lord Darnley, induced a 
 number of the Scottish nobles to form an association having for its 
 object the overthrow of the intriguing duke. They accordingly 
 resolved to set out for Borthwick Castle — where the Queen 
 and Bothwell then resided — in order to effect his capture. Mary 
 and Bothwell being apprised of this intention, assembled their 
 followers at Dunbar, where they were joined by many of the 
 border barons, and along with them was Sir Robert Lauder of 
 Bass. The Queen's army then numbered about two thousand men: 
 with these, Mary and the duke left Dunbar on 14th June, 1567, 
 and advanced to Seaton against the confederate lords. Her next 
 step was to entrench herself on Carberry-hill within the old works 
 which had been thrown up by the English army previous to the 
 battle of Pinkie. The following day her opponents marched from 
 Edinburgh, their arrival on the scene of the impending conflict 
 creating a general panic in the queen's army, desertion being so 
 rapid that she and Bothwell were left with only sixty gentlemen 
 and a band of hack-butters. In these circumstances immediate 
 surrender to the associated nobles was inevitable, and this course 
 Mary pursued, Bothwell, however, escaping on horseback from the 
 field. The queen was conducted back to the capital riding between 
 the Earls of Morton and of Athole. 
 
THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 53 
 
 The Protocol Book of North Berwick mentions Robert Lauder 
 of the Bass, 1555, 1561. 
 
 Sir Robert married Mariotta or Alison Cranstoun, and died in 
 1 561. Besides his eldest son, Richard Lauder of that ilk, his 
 successor, he left a somewhat numerous family, the second of whom, 
 Robert, received from him the Bass and other East Lothian lands, 
 thus creating a new family. One of his sons, Sir Robert Lauder 
 of Popil, knight, married Margaret, daughter of William, fifth Lord 
 Hay of Yester, and widow of James, seventh Lord Borthwick. A 
 daughter, Elizabeth, was married to David Preston of Craigmiller, 
 son and heir-apparent of Sir Simon Preston of Preston, knight, as 
 appears from a charter to them of the barony of Preston, lying 
 on the river Esk. Sir Simon died in March, 1593. Another 
 daughter, Katherine, was married in 1552 to her cousin, Sir John 
 Swinton of Swinton, grandson of John Swinton mentioned at the 
 end of the preceding chapter. The direct line will now be followed, 
 whilst we shall recur to the second son as Robert Lauder, 
 
 YOUNGER, OF THE BaSS. 
 
54 HISTORY OF 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 Richard Lauder, the successor to his father's estate of Lauder, 
 was a Senator of the College of Justice by the title of Lord Lauder, 
 and as his successor was appointed in 1575, he is supposed to have 
 deceased before that year. It is said, however, that his name does 
 not appear in Brunton and Haig's Account of the Senators of the 
 College of Justice; but on July 9, 1575, James Meldrum, younger, 
 of Segie, is appointed an ordinary lord on the temporal side in 
 place of William Lauder of that ilk, of whom no account is given. 
 He married Mary MacDougal, daughter of the Laird of Mackair- 
 stone, in Teviotdale, by whom he had his eldest son 
 
 Robert Lauder of Lauder, who flourished in 1575. It may 
 be presumed that this is the laird of Bass to whom Moysie refers, 
 as being one of the representatives of the baronies concerning a 
 feud between Lord Maxwell and the laird of Johnston, 12th 
 November, 1593. He left a son 
 
 Robert Lauder, who, it < would appear from the Retours of 
 Service, was served heir to his great-grandfather, Sir Robert 
 Lawder of Bass, in 1628, of an estate in Sunderland, Selkirkshire. 
 He appears on an assize (Pitcairn's Criminal Trials), 21st July, 
 1624. Robert, in turn, was succeeded by his only son, also 
 
 Robert Lauder, who died about 1658, leaving an only child, 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 55 
 
 Isabel Lauder of that ilk. This lady married Alexander Home, 
 one of the Bailies of Lauder, and died in 1683, leaving four 
 daughters, Margaret, Anna, Christina, and Isabella Home, among 
 whom the Lauder property was divided. Robert having died in 
 1623, without male issue, the eldest branch of the family 
 became extinct, and the direct line was carried on by Richard's 
 second son, William, ancestor of the Fountainhall branch of the 
 family. 
 
56 HISTORY OF 
 
 CHAP. XL 
 
 William Lauder, called "of the Dails," erroneously named 
 Robert by Nisbet,— as is pointed out by Burke, — burgess of 
 Lauder, had a charter of some lands in 1542, from Sir Robert 
 Lauder of the Bass, who styles him dilectus consanguineus. He 
 married Jean or Elizabeth Bellenden, daughter of Bellenden of 
 Lasswade, by whom he had three sons : Robert, who died without 
 issue ; William, called "Will of the West Port," who is referred to 
 in a document entitled "Remission in favour of the pannell, the 
 Earl of Home, &c, dated 17th November, 1607, as Willielmo 
 Latider, Balliui burgi nostri de Lauder, vocat. Williame at the 
 West-Poirt ; he was stabbed on the bench by the Earl of 
 Home and a party of Humes and Cranstouns, who, after setting 
 fire to the Tolbooth, broke in upon him while sitting in the court- 
 house of Lauder as hereditary bailie. He, also, having no issue, 
 the succession fell to the youngest brother, 
 
 Andrew Lauder, who is said to have retired to his mother's 
 friends at Melvin Mill, Lasswade, in order to avoid further blood- 
 shed. The accounts of the assassination of the hereditary bailie 
 of Lauder are somewhat conflicting : Nisbet says that of Robert 
 Lauder's three sons, "the two eldest were cut off, with many of 
 their relations, in a plea, by the Homes and Cranstons, in the 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 57 
 
 minority of King James VI., but the youngest surviving son, 
 Andrew, retired to his mother's friends." The Analecta Scotica 
 states: "the eldest son's issue are extinct. Mr. William, the 
 second son, was killed by the Homes and the Cranstons, with 
 several others of his kindred, when they brant the tour of Lawder, 
 1598. Andrew Lauder, the third son of Robert of that ilk, to 
 shun any farder blood, he retired to his mother's friends in 
 Leswaid, and lived in Melvin Milne," whilst Anderson, in his 
 Scottish Nation, observes that Robert, the eldest son, " died 
 without issue." At all events, there can be no doubt that a branch 
 of the family of Lauder had settled down at Melvin or Melville 
 Mill, not far from Bellenden, the property of Andrew's grand- 
 father, as in the Indexes to the Services of Heirs, it is recorded 
 that James Lauder was served heir of his father, George 
 Lauder, in Melvillmill, 2nd July, 1726, and a reference to the 
 Fasti Ecclesice Scoticaiuz (A pp., p. xviii.) will show that in 1752, 
 the Rev. James Lauder, born at Melville Mill, Lasswade, so 
 late as 1706, was presented to the parish of Dun, and that, 
 consequently, Andrew's relations had not then at least become 
 extinct. He married: firstly, Janet Ramsay, daughter of Ramsay 
 of Hillhead or Polton, a cadet of the Dalhousie family, and 
 secondly, Isobell Borthwick, daughter of the Laird of Johnston- 
 burn or Soutrie, and by her had issue. By his first wife he had 
 one only son, 
 
 John Lauder, who succeeded to the estates. He is designed 
 of Newington, Edrington, and Fountainhall. He was at one time 
 a merchant in Edinburgh, of which town he subsequently became a 
 bailie. He was three times married, though only one marriage is 
 chronicled by Burke. By his first wife, Margaret Spire, he had 
 
-58 HISTORY OF 
 
 three children, one of whom, a daughter, Margaret, married Colin 
 Campbell of Blythswood; by his second wife, Isabel Eleis, daughter 
 of Alexander Eleis of Mortonhall, he had fourteen sons and two 
 daughters ; and by his third wife, Margaret Ramsay, daughter of 
 George Ramsay of Iddington, he had four sons and two daughters 
 ■ — twenty-five children in all by his three wives. A somewhat 
 involved paragraph in the Analecta Scotica (App. p. xii.) traces 
 the descent of Isabel Eleis, by whom he had his eldest son and 
 successor, Lord Fountainhall. He is said to have acquired the 
 Fountainhall property in 1681, and was created a Baronet of 
 Nova Scotia in 1688. 
 
 Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, second baronet, 
 was born in Edinburgh, 2nd August, 1646. He was a dis- 
 tinguished lawyer and statesman, and was admitted advocate, 
 5th June, 1668, having previously prepared for the pursuit 
 of his profession at the University of Leyden. From that time he 
 continued to record the decisions of the Court of Session, and it 
 is to his labours that the profession is indebted for the valuable 
 collection styled Fountainhall 's Decisions. At the trial of the Earl 
 of Argyle in 1681, for an alleged illegal construction of the Test, 
 Sir John acted as counsel, along with Sir George Lockhart and 
 six others. The eight advocates of Argyle having signed an 
 opinion that his explanation of the Test contained nothing treason- 
 able, were called before a Committee of the Council, and after 
 being examined on oath, they were dismissed with a censure and 
 warning from the Duke of York. Previous to this, Mr. Lauder 
 was knighted, and about the same time he acted as one of the 
 assessors of the City of Edinburgh. In April, 1685, he was elected 
 to Parliament as one of the members for the county of Haddington. 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 59 
 
 He was afterwards frequently re-elected, and, during the long 
 period that he sat in the legislature of his country, his conduct 
 was characterised by moderation and independence. To the 
 despotic measures of the government previous to the Revolution 
 he offered all constitutional resistance, and his zealous support of 
 the Protestant religion was the cause of his being exposed to some 
 trouble in May, 1686. He firmly opposed the attempt of James 
 VII. to abolish the penal laws against the Roman Catholics ; and 
 his reasons for so doing are inserted at length in his Diary. After 
 the Revolution he was appointed a Lord of Session, and took his 
 seat, 1 st November, 1689, with the title of Lord Fountainhall, and 
 within three months afterwards he was nominated a Lord of 
 Justiciary. In 1692 he v/as offered the post of Lord Advocate, 
 which he declined, not being allowed to prosecute the actors in the 
 massacre of Glencoe, an event which has left such an indelible 
 stain on King William's memory. Sir John was Commissioner of 
 supply for Haddington 1685, 1689, 1690, 1704; and was in 
 parliament 1685-1686, 1690-1702, 1702-1707. In 1685 the barony 
 of Fountainhall was ratified to him and to his son John ; he took 
 the oath of allegiance 1703, and voted on the clauses of the Treaty 
 of Union 1 706-1 707. During the protracted discussions on 
 this Treaty, Sir John Lauder was regular in his attendance 
 in Parliament, acting generally in opposition, and he finally voted 
 against it. Soon after, age and infirmities compelled him to resign 
 his place in the Justiciary Court, and some time before his death 
 he also relinquished his seat in the Court of Session. He died 
 20th September, 1722. He was married to Janet Ramsay, 
 daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall, baronet, also a 
 senator of the College of Justice, and left a numerous family. To 
 
€0 HISTOEY OF 
 
 this Sir Andrew Ramsay the Bass rock had some time previously- 
 been transferred. In October, 1671, Sir Andrew sold the island to 
 the government for the sum of ,£4000 after it had continued in the 
 possession of the Lauder family for about five centuries, they being 
 the earliest proprietors of the Bass of whom there is any record. A 
 son, Robert, died 17th December, 1695, and another son, William, 
 died 21st July following. A daughter, Isabell, married, about 1709, 
 Thomas Scott of Millenie, a cadet of the Buccleuch family. 
 George, fourth Lord Banff, baptised 4th August, 1670, succeeded 
 his father 1713, and died 17 18. He married on nth January, 
 1712, Helen, daughter of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, bart., 
 and by her had two sons : John George, fifth Lord Banff, and 
 Alexander, sixth Lord Banff. Lord Fountainhall's eldest son, 
 
 Sir John Lauder, third baronet, was served heir to his father, 
 14th May, 1723. Sir Alexander Seton, first baronet of Pitmedden, 
 and a senator of the College of Justice by the title of Lord 
 Pitmedden, who died in 1 719, was married to Margaret Lauder, 
 daughter of William Lauder, Clerk of Session, who died 1696. 
 Their second daughter, Margaret, married in 1696, Sir John 
 Lauder of Fountainhall, third baronet of the descent. A case is 
 reported in Lord Fountainhall's Decisions: " Dame Margaret 
 Lauder, Lady Pitmedden and her husband v. Sir Robert Gordon 
 of Gordonston," 18th December, 1707. "Mr. John Lauder, 
 younger, of Fountainhall," is referred to in his father's Chronological 
 Notes of Scottish Affairs, under date 30th November, 1680. Sir 
 John was a commissioner of supply 1699, 1704. He died in 
 February, 1728. According to Burke he had by his wife, Margaret 
 Seton, his eldest son and successor, 
 
 Sir Alexander Lauder, " who, dying unmarried in 1730, the 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 61 
 
 title and estate devolved on his brother." But, in the Indexes to 
 the Services of Heirs in Scotland, no mention is made of this Sir 
 
 Alexander, while there is special record that 
 
 s i J ■ ... ■ . 
 
 Sir Andrew Lauder, bart., of Fountainhall, was served heir 
 male of tailzie, and provision special to his father, Sir John Lauder, 
 bart, of Fountainhall (who died Feb., 1728), in the barony of 
 Fountainhall, the service being recorded 27th October, 1731. 
 About 1750 this Sir Andrew married his cousin Isobel Dick, 
 only child and heiress of William Dick, Esq., of Grange, by whom 
 he had three sons. He died in March, 1769, his wife surviving 
 him until March, 1779. At his death he was succeeded by the 
 third and only surviving son, 
 
 Sir Andrew Lauder (or Dick-Lauder, as he is styled in the 
 Indexes to Services). He married Elizabeth Broun, daughter of 
 Thomas Broun, Esq., of Johnstonburn ; and, dying in 1820, was 
 succeeded by his eldest son, 
 
 " Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder, baronet, of Fountainhall and 
 Grange, who was born in 1784. In early life he entered the army, 
 and afterwards took up his residence in Morayshire, where he 
 remained till 1832, when he removed to the "Grange House," 
 near Edinburgh. He married in 1808, Charles Anne Cumin, only 
 child and heiress of George Cumin, Esq., of Relugas, on the banks 
 of the Findhorn. By her he had two sons and ten daughters. 
 He had succeeded to the baronetcy in 1820. In 1839, Sir Thomas 
 was appointed Secretary to the Board of Scottish Manufactures, 
 and also, immediately afterwards, Secretary to the Board of British 
 White Herring Fishery. The duties of these Secretaryships he 
 continued sedulously to discharge, till interrupted by his last illness. 
 He was for some time Secretary to the Royal Institution for the 
 
62 HISTORY OF 
 
 encouragement of the Fine Arts, an office which he relinquished 
 about two years before his death. He was a fellow of the 
 Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a deputy-lieutenant of the 
 counties of Moray and Haddington. Sir Thomas Dick- Lauder 
 was an eminent author: he was one of the first contributors 
 to Blackwood's Magazine, which was started in 1817. He 
 wrote for several other magazines of that period ; and for the 
 Edinburgh Cyclopedia he drew up an excellent statistical account 
 of Morayshire. He also published two romances, Lochandhu in 
 1825, and The Wolf of Badenoch in 1827. A list of his works is 
 given in Anderson's Scottish Nation, from which book the fore- 
 going details have been mainly derived. Sir Thomas died on 29th 
 May, 1848. He was succeeded by his elder son, 
 
 Sir John Dick- Lauder, who was born in 18 13, and married, 
 22nd May, 1845, Lady Anne Dalrymple, second daughter of North, 
 ninth earl of Stair, and had issue, four sons and three daughters. 
 Sir John served for twelve years in the E.I. Company's Bengal 
 army, and was a deputy-lieutenant for Midlothian. He died 23rd 
 March, 1867, and was succeeded by his eldest son, 
 
 Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder of Fountainhall, the 
 present baronet, who was born in 1846. 
 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 63 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 
 In this place the descent of the Hatton or Halton branch of 
 the Lauder family will be taken into consideration. This collateral 
 line is stated by Hatton House (a special work on the subject, 
 from which an extract is given in the Appendix, p. xlv.) to have 
 proceeded from Sir Alan de Lauder through his son William, but 
 this statement is doubtless erroneous, because, as previously 
 mentioned in this volume (Chap, v.), Sir Allan's son, William, was 
 Bishop of Glasgow and Chancellor of Scotland, and consequently 
 could not possibly be the ancestor of the Lauders of Hatton. It 
 would rather appear extremely probable that Sir Alan Lauder had 
 another son, 
 
 Alexander Lauder, who succeeded to the Hatton estates on 
 the death of his father, shortly after the year 1400 (vide ante), for 
 Douglas's Peerage says that "the second Sir John Forrester had 
 two daughters, the youngest of whom, Elizabeth, was married to 
 Sir Alexander de Hatton, knight, as appears from a charter of 
 Robert, Duke of Albany, to Alexander de Lauder, and Elizabeth 
 Forrester his wife, daughter of Sir John Forrester of Corstorphine, 
 knight, of the lands of Plat, Westhall, and Northraw, in the 
 Barony of Rathow, dated 7th December, 1408, and this document 
 
64 HISTOEY OF 
 
 is registered in the Index of Records of Charters, /jog-f^ij. 
 He married Lady Helen, daughter of Archibald, fourth Earl of 
 Douglas, " the Tyneman," who was killed at Verneuil, in 
 Normandy, 17th August, 1424. A large number of Douglas's 
 followers attended him on this occasion, and there is every proba- 
 bility that his son-in-law, Alexander Lauder, shared the Earl's fate 
 at Verneuil. Marshal Douglas, Due de Touraine, as the Earl 
 was styled in France, led the French troops against the English 
 under the Duke of Bedford. At the onslaught an altercation 
 between Douglas and Narbonne as to precedence threw their 
 troops into confusion, and a disastrous defeat was the result ; 
 Douglas, Sir Alexander Lindsay, Robert Stewart, Sir John 
 Swinton, and two thousand others having been left dead on 
 the field. 
 
 The following interesting account of this battle is from Villaret's 
 Histoire de France: — 
 
 Le comte de Douglas s'etant fait rendre compte de la disposition des Anglois, 
 assembla le conseil de guerre, oil Ton agita si Ton attendroit ou si Ton preViendroit 
 1' ennemi. Le pore Daniel, sur la foi de la chronique de S. Denis, se'duit d'ailleurs 
 par cet amour propre national, si naturel h. tous les hommes, rapporte que le comte 
 d' Aumale, le vicomte de Narbonne et les autres chefs furent d'avis de ne pas 
 accepter le combat, et que ce sentiment fut rejette' par le connetable Stuart et les 
 capitaines Ecossois, qui ayant a. leur tete le comte de Douglas, deciderent pour 
 l'attaque. D'autres historiens affirment precisement le contraire : ils assurent que 
 Narbonne insista pour marcher aux Anglois et pour forcer leurs lignes ; que le 
 general Ecossois ayant vainement represent^ la te'me'rite' de l'entreprise fut oblige 
 de ce"der a Narbonne, qui menagant d'aller affronter seul les ennemis, entraina la 
 plurality des suffrages. II est assez difficile de choisir entre deux opinions si 
 diame'tralement oppos&s. Ce qu' il y a de certain, e'est que le comte de Narbonne 
 commenca l'attaque, et que Farme'e Royaliste composed de vingt mille hommes de 
 bonnes troupes, commanded par une noblesse intrepide, attaqua les Anglois avec 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 65 
 
 furie, fit des prodiges de valeur, a la reserve des troupes Italiennes qui prirent la 
 fuite, et fut entitlement defaite. Un detail plus circonstancie" de cette action seroit 
 superflu. C'est toujours le meme defaut de reflexion, d'ordre, d'intelligence et de 
 subordination. On observera qu' a cette action, ainsi qu' aux pre'ce'dentes, on ne fit 
 point usage d' artillerie, et que les hommes d'armes des deux nations combattirent 
 a pied, ce qui sembloit indiquer des-lors Tutilite de l'infanterie dans une bataille. 
 
 Cinq mille hommes resterent sur le champ de bataille, parmi lesquels on 
 comptoit le comte de Douglas, James de Douglas son fils, le constable Stuart, 
 Harcourt, comte d'Aumale, Narbonne et une multitude presqu' incroyable de 
 gentilshommes ; car la perte tomba principalement sur les chefs et sur la noblesse. 
 Cette victoire, plus disputed que les prec^dentes, couta seize cents hommes aux 
 Anglois. 
 
 This estimate of the English loss is accepted by most 
 authorities, but the total loss of the allied Scottish, French, and 
 Italian army is generally computed at about four thousand men. 
 Villaret is in error in saying that James, son of the Earl of Douglas, 
 was killed in this action. The Scots, as usual, bore the brunt of 
 the battle. Alexander was succeeded by 
 
 William Lauder, his son, who seems to have died about 
 1442, for in that year, 
 
 Alexander Lauder is served heir of his father, William. This 
 Alexander must have died before 1451, as at that time, his 
 successor, 
 
 William Lauder of Hatton, came prominently into notice 
 in connection with the assassination of Douglas, by James the 
 Second, in Stirling Castle. This extraordinary event is deserving 
 of notice. 
 
 In 1449, William, eighth Earl of Douglas, held the office of 
 lieutenant-general of Scotland, in which high position he contrived 
 to usurp the government and to tyrannise over King James the 
 
66 HISTORY OF 
 
 Second. This monarch's indignation being aroused to the highest 
 pitch, by the execution of a nephew of Sir Patrick Gray, captain 
 of the guard, in defiance of an order under the royal seal, the king 
 determined to crush the power of his dangerous vassal, and to put 
 down the insolence of aristocratic tyranny. But James, aware of 
 the overwhelming force which Douglas was ready to bring into the 
 field, hesitated before resorting to strong measures, and suppressing 
 his natural anger, he sent Sir William Lauder of Hatton, who had 
 attended Douglas on his pilgrimage to Rome, with a message to 
 him expressive of the King's desire to enter into a personal con- 
 ference, and promising absolute security for his person. It is also 
 said that many of the nobles had solemnly transmitted a written 
 obligation to the Earl, by which they bound themselves, even if 
 the King should show an inclination to break his promise, that 
 they, to the utmost of their power, would compel him to observe 
 it. Douglas, believing himself secure under the royal protection 
 and the oath of the nobility, came with a small retinue to Stirling, 
 in company with Sir William Lauder of Hatton. The day after 
 his arrival he not only dined but supped with the King, who, 
 apparently desirous of having some private conversation with the 
 Earl, took him aside into an inner chamber in which were a few of 
 his most intimate counsellors. There the King remonstrated with 
 Douglas upon his conduct, but the Earl — unused to be addressed 
 in such a manner — replied with haughty insolence. Upon this 
 James broke into ungovernable fury, drew his dagger, and stabbed 
 the Earl, first in the throat, and instantly after in the lower part of 
 the body. Sir Patrick Gray, who was in the room, at one blow 
 felled Douglas with his pole-axe ; and the rest of the nobles who 
 stood near the King, rushing in upon the dying man, attacked him 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 67 
 
 with their knives and daggers, so that he instantly expired, covered 
 with twenty-six wounds. The window was then thrown open, and 
 the mangled body cast into an open court. Shortly thereafter, Sir 
 James Douglas, brother of the murdered Earl, and six hundred 
 barons and gentlemen, followers and supporters of the family, 
 invaded Stirling, took the letter of assurance, subscribed by the 
 names, and guaranteed by the seals of the Scottish nobles, nailed 
 it to a board which they tied to the tail of a sorry horse, and 
 dragged it through the streets, concluding the outbreak by plunder- 
 ing and setting fire to the town. 
 
 The Rottdi Scotice record safe-conducts to John Lauder of 
 Hatton, 14th June, 1464, and to Alexander Lauder of Hatton, 
 14th March, 1465-6. Sir William Lauder was in parliament 
 1471, 1484, and 1487. Douglas's Peerage says that "Sir Alexander 
 Napier of Merchiston, who died betwixt 24th Oct., 1473, and 15th 
 Feby., 1473-4, married Elizabeth Lauder, probably a daughter of 
 the Laird of Hatton." His successor, 
 
 Sir George Lauder, succeeded to the estates in 1507, but did 
 not long enjoy his possessions, as he and his two brothers, James 
 Lauder and Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth, fell with their King 
 at Flodden. Sir Alexander was Provost of Edinburgh from 
 1500 to 15 13, the year of his death, and he was Justice Depute in 
 1508-9, 15 1 2, and 15 13. In April, 1504, he is styled in the 
 Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, "Sir Alexander Lauder of 
 Hatton, Prepositus." He was in Parliament for Edinburgh, 1503, 
 1505, and was a commissioner for holding parliament, 1504, 1505. 
 The battle of Flodden was an event fraught with so dire conse- 
 quence to the Lauders of Hatton that it is deemed expedient 
 briefly to describe it. 
 
68 HISTORY OF 
 
 King James IV. invaded England, 13th August 15 13, in 
 despite of the counsel and remonstrances of his veteran officers and 
 nobles. Tytler ascribes to infatuation his obstinacy in prosecuting 
 this war; James fixed his camp on Flodden-hill, the eastern spur of 
 the Cheviot mountains, and in that strong position awaited the 
 approach of the English army. The English, under the Earl of 
 Surrey, crossed the river Till, on 8th September, and, doubling 
 on the Scottish position, marched northward round the hill of 
 Flodden, and re-crossed the river by the bridge of Twissel, James 
 romantically refusing to allow his artillery to fire on the enemy, 
 thus allowing them to defile over the bridge at leisure. James 
 had taken possession of Brankston-hill, whilst meantime, Surrey 
 placed his entire line between the Scottish King and his 
 country, and was able, by an easy ascent which led to Flodden, to 
 march upon the rear of the enemy, whom he attacked without delay. 
 The English numbered twenty-six thousand strong at the lowest 
 computation, and were drawn up in a long double line, with a body 
 of cavalry in the rear. The Scots slowly descended the hill to 
 meet the enemy, and the action began by a mutual discharge of 
 artillery. This was followed by an impetuous charge by 
 the Scots on the English vanguard, which was completely 
 routed, but ultimately the assailants were driven back with 
 great slaughter. The highlanders, unable to reach the enemy 
 with their broad-swords and axes, which formed their only 
 weapons, broke up their array and rushed, sword in hand, upon the 
 English pikemen, who stood their ground, and the Scots, being 
 unable to recover their ranks, were totally routed. Meantime 
 James fought in the front of the battle, and the contest was 
 uncertain when he fell pierced by an arrow, and mortally wounded 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 69 
 
 in the head by a bill-hook, within a few paces of the Earl of Surrey, 
 the English commander. The battle lasted from half-past four of 
 the afternoon of Friday, 9th September, 1 5 1 3, and continued till 
 after nightfall, when darkness separated the combatants. At this 
 time Surrey was uncertain of the result, but when morning broke it 
 was seen that the Scots, becoming aware of their immense loss, 
 and having heard that the King and almost all the nobility were 
 slain, had silently retreated to their own country. When the 
 battlefield was examined there were found of the English few men 
 of note fallen, but about five thousand soldiers, chiefly of the ranks ; 
 but of the Scots, there lay the King and his son, the Archbishop 
 of St. Andrews, dead on the field, with two bishops, two mitred 
 abbots, twelve earls, thirteen lords, five eldest sons of peers, fifty 
 knights and chiefs, and of gentlemen a number uncalculated. 
 There was scarcely an historical name which did not lose a mem- 
 ber on that fatal field, the Scottish loss being estimated at ten 
 thousand men. Surely none of these suffering families had greater 
 cause to deplore the consequences of that sanguinary conflict than 
 the Lauders of Hatton, who seem to have narrowly escaped 
 extinction. Sir George was succeeded by his son, 
 
 Sir William Lauder, who obtained from James the Fifth, in 
 consideration of his father's and uncles' services and deaths in 
 battle, " the relief of all his lands lying in the shires of Edinburgh, 
 Berwick, and Peebles." This document is dated 19th July, 15 15. 
 On 8th June, 15 19, William Lauder protests against any inter- 
 ference with his lands of Burghmuir, inherited from his uncle, Sir 
 Alexander Lauder of Blyth. These lands were given by charter 
 to a previous William Lauder, in the time of Robert III. 
 He was on an assize in 1540, and in parliament 1560. On 3rd 
 
70 HISTORY OF 
 
 April, 1548, Sir William Scott of Balweary, got a charter of the 
 lands of Invertiel, in Fife, and married Helen, daughter of this Sir 
 William. Another daughter, Janet, married James Forrester of 
 Corstorphine, who had a charter to him and Janet Lauder his wife, 
 of the lands of West Craigs of Corstorphine, and of Clerkingtoun, 
 dated 5th February, 1555-6. The Works of John Knox mention 
 William Lauder of Halton under date 1559, and in 1570 he is 
 " appointed to conveene before the nobilitie presentlie assembled in 
 Edinburgh." (Hist, of the Kirk of Scotland.) He is mentioned in 
 Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, 23rd March, 1532; 14th April, 1534; 
 24th September, 1566; 8th December, 1570; on which latter date, 
 "William Lauder of Halton — with others — was vnlawit in the 
 panis of xl pundis for non-comperance to pass vpoune the said 
 assyise." His successor was 
 
 Sir Alexander Lauder, his son, who apparently did not 
 succeed to the estates without some trouble. Amongst the Acta 
 Parliamentorum — Regis. Jacobi VI. (Dec 10, 1585) — there is "Ane 
 act annulland the infeftments maid to gilbert Lauder of Balbardeis, 
 and his sone of the Landis and leving of Haltoun." This act 
 fully describes the extent of the Hatton estate as at that date, and 
 proceeds: "gilbert lauder of balbardeis be lang consuetude perfytlie 
 wnderstanding the simple of the said S r W am be certane malignand 
 and craftie practices abusing the said alexanderis fatheris ignorance 
 to his awin gredie appetite and vnhonest commoditie within the 
 space of sewin zeiris lastbypast allurit and intysit the said 
 S r W am to annalie vnto w am Lauder eldest sone to the said 
 gilbert his airis and assignais heretable all and haill the landis 
 foresaidis be simulat and cullerit venditioun Seing he nathir 
 had money to pay nor payit ony money thairfor." . . . The 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 71 
 
 act continues observing that it is strange Sir Wiliam should 
 thus alienate " the haill landis he had in the warld he having 
 the saidis alexander and fames lander brither germane sonis 
 procreat of his awn body be lauchfull manage of thair mothir 
 quha is discendit of ane honourabell houss." There does not 
 appear to have been any near relationship between Sir William 
 Lauder and Gilbert Lauder of Balbardeis, as this act in one 
 place terms the latter "ane strangear." This alienation was 
 declared of no effect. He married Mary Maitland, a daughter of 
 Sir Richard Maitland of Thirlestane and Lethington. Playfair, 
 in his British Antiquity, adds that Alexander quitted office 
 in favour of this lady's brother, John, Lord Thirlestane, Lord 
 Chancellor of Scotland. He was killed at the battle of Pinkie, 
 which was fought on the 10th September, 1547. This battle 
 was occasioned by the refusal of the Scots to give their infant 
 queen, Mary, to her grand-uncle, Henry VIII., as a wife for 
 his son, afterwards Edward VI. Henry died before the battle 
 was fought, but he had ordered the war to be pushed on 
 actively. The English were excellently appointed in artillery 
 and cavalry, while the Scots, although numerous, were ill-armed, 
 and undisciplined. The Scottish army was in position in the 
 neighbourhood of Musselburgh, under the command of the Earl 
 of Arran, whilst the English, led by the Duke of Somerset, 
 encamped near the hill of Inveresk, planting their ordnance 
 on the eminence commanding the Scottish position. Arran, 
 contrary to the advice of his best officers, ordered an advance 
 upon the enemy, and this advance numbered ten thousand men. 
 The English cavalry, charging upon the left wing, under Angus, 
 met with a severe and sanguinary repulse, and, had this portion 
 
72 HISTORY OF 
 
 of the army been supported by the rest, the fate of the battle had 
 then been decided. Later in the day still another such oppor- 
 tunity was lost, and finally, a panic, created by the flight of a 
 body of highlanders, threw the whole army into disorder; the 
 most dreadful carnage ensued, the pursuit lasting for five hours, 
 the retreat having sounded only on the approach of night. 
 Sir Alexander is said by Hatton House to have been succeeded 
 by his son, but Playfair states distinctly that he had no 
 sons, whilst on the unquestionable authority of the Retours of 
 Service 
 
 Alexander Lauder of Hatton, heir of Alexander Lauder, 
 his uncle, is served, 6th May, 1606, heir to lands in the barony 
 of Wiston, Lanarkshire, and on 14th April, 1603, to lands in 
 Peebleshire. In the reign of Robert III., 1390- 1406, there is 
 a charter given by James Sandilands of Calder, to George 
 Lauder of Hal ton, of lands in the barony of Wiston. These 
 are probably the lands inherited by Alexander, but it is not 
 clear who this George Lauder is, unless he be still another son 
 of Sir Alan, first of Hatton, preceding Alexander, of whom 
 there is record in 1408. In 162 1, he was one of the com- 
 missioners under James VI., "for the plantation of kirks where 
 kirks is yet unplanted," and he was, in the same year, in 
 parliament for Edinburgh principal. He married Lady Susanna, 
 a daughter of James, seventh Earl of Glencairn, and Mariot, 
 second daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurchy, who died 
 in 1 6 10. 
 
 This Sir Alexander was succeeded by his brother, Richard 
 Lauder, the last of the Lauders of Hatton ; he entered into 
 possession of the estates in 1625. On 18th May, 1625, he was 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 73 
 
 served heir to his brother, Alexander Lauder of Hatton, in certain 
 lands in Peeblesshire, whilst another Retour says that Richard 
 Lauder, heir of Alexander Lauder, feudatory of Haltoun, his 
 brother-german, was served heir of the lands of Halton and of 
 certain property at Cringletie in Peeblesshire, &c. Richard was 
 on committees of war for Edinburgh, 1647, 1648; he was Com- 
 missioner of Excise, 1661, and Justice of Peace, 1663. Douglas's 
 Baronage says: — "About 1630 mention is made of the marriage of 
 a daughter of Scott of Millenie to Lauder of Hatton. The Scotts 
 of Millenie are cadets of Buccleuch." He had no male issue, but 
 he had two daughters, the elder of whom, Jean, married, in 1650, 
 Sir John Elphinstone of Calderhall, and left issue. This lady's 
 dowry consisted in money. He settled the barony and other lands, 
 all de novo erected into a free barony j66o, on his younger 
 daughter, Elizabeth, who married at Hatton, 18th November, 
 1652, the Hon. Charles Maitland, afterwards Earl of Lauderdale, 
 they and their successors being bound to take the surname and 
 carry the arms of Lauder of Hatton. It was by this marriage of 
 the younger brother of the Duke of Lauderdale that the property 
 of Hatton became one of the chief possessions of the Lauderdale 
 family. Besides the Hatton estate he got the lands of Overgogar, 
 Norton, and Platts. In the Acts of Parliament for Scotland '(1663) 
 there is recorded the ratification of a charter to Charles Maitland and 
 Elizabeth Lauder his wife, daughter of Richard Lauder of Halton, 
 of the lands of Halton and Norton, under condition that their 
 heirs take the surname of Lauder and quarter the arms of Lauder 
 of Halton and Maitland of Lauderdale. He died 1695. By 
 his wife, Elizabeth Lauder, he had issue: Richard, fourth Earl of 
 Lauderdale ; John, fifth Earl of Lauderdale, and other six children. 
 
74 HISTORY OF 
 
 This John Maitland, brother and successor to Richard, Earl of 
 Lauderdale, was sometime designated Sir John Lauder of 
 Halton ; he sat in parliament for Edinburghshire, 1685-6, 1689, 
 1689-93 ( as Sir John Maitland of Ravelrig, 1693, until he 
 succeeded his brother as Earl of Lauderdale, 28th August, 1696). 
 Previous to his accession to the title he was created a Baronet of 
 Nova Scotia, 18th November, 1680; Advocate, 30th July of the 
 same year ; Lord of Session, 28th October, 1689, as Lord Ravelrig; 
 Privy Counsellor at the Revolution; Colonel of the Edinburgh- 
 shire Militia, 1689; took his seat in parliament, 8th September, 
 1696, when he supported the Union, and was General of the Mint, 
 1699. In 1693 he assumed the designation of "Lauder of 
 Haltoun," in lieu of " Maitland of Ravelrig." He died 30th 
 August, 1 7 10, having married Margaret, only child of Alexander 
 Cunningham, tenth Earl of Glencairn ; she died 12th May, 
 1742, leaving, with other issue, a son, Charles, sixth Earl of 
 Lauderdale. 
 
THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 75 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 In this chapter we shall take within our purview the junior 
 branch of the family, resident, about 1550, either on the island of 
 Bass or in the adjacent burgh of North Berwick, and then 
 designated solely of the Bass. We consequently revert to page 
 53, where it is stated that 
 
 Robert Lauder, younger, of the Bass, received from his 
 father, Sir Robert Lauder, the Bass and other East Lothian 
 lands, including Beilhaven and West-Barns. He is alluded 
 to in the Protocol Book of North Berwick, 1553 and 1554, 
 whilst in the Carte Monialium de North Berwic, under 
 date 24th July, 1556, there is found an account of "the handfast- 
 ing of Robert Lauder younger of the Bass and Jane Hepburn 
 dochter to Patrik Erll Bothwell." He is also mentioned in the 
 same work, 29th April, 1553. He was in parliament, 1572, and, 
 among those present at a convention held at Edinburgh, 24th 
 November, 1572, were "Robertus Lauder miles de Bass Junior 
 georgius hwme de spott and Jacobus forester de Corstorphyn." 
 He seems to have been succeeded by 
 
 James Lauder, for Pitcairn's Criminal Trials records that on 
 15th December, 1580, Walter Lauder, "serwand to vmqle the 
 Lairde of Bass," was tried for the " crewall murthour of vmquhile 
 
76 HISTORY OF 
 
 Mr. James Lauder of the Bass, his maister; committit in the 
 moneth of October." This servant was found guilty of being 
 act and part in the murder and was executed. The next was, 
 apparently, 
 
 George Lauder of Bass, who was on the Privy Council, 1592, 
 1593, as, in an Act (James VI., 5th June, 1592), "The Nominatioun 
 and establisching of oure souerane lordis privie counsaill," "Maister 
 george lauder of bass" is included in a list of the " baronis 
 knichtis and gentlemen nominat to be of his hienes privie counsaill." 
 He was on the Articles 1592, and that same year was a com- 
 missioner for punishing slayers of solan geese and other birds on 
 the Bass. This commission is contained in a " Ratificatioun of 
 ane act of secreit counsaill (James VI., 5th June, 1592), in fauouris 
 of the laird of bass," which narrates that " Vnderstanding how 
 profitable the solane geiss and vtheris fowlis quhilk hantis reparis 
 and biggis within the He of bass zierlie Ar to the common weill of 
 this realme and haill leigis of the same and how hurtfull the slaying 
 and distroying thairof ar to the haill subiectis of this realme 
 Maid and constitute Maister george lauder of bass his aris and 
 assignais and successouris lardis of bass his hienes commissioneris 
 To tak and apprehend all and quhatsumeuir persoun or personis 
 quha happynis to slay ony of the saidis giess." In 1593 he was 
 appointed one of the commissioners to examine into James the 
 Sixth's debts, and to make arrangements for his proposed visit to 
 the Isles. George Lauder of Bass was also, in October of that 
 year, one of the "special persons" of the estates to whom was 
 remitted the offers of the three Popish lords, the Earls of Angus, 
 Huntley, and Errol, to consider and determine. Also, in 1593, 
 the lordship and bailiary of Tyningham, with the office of heritable 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 77 
 
 justiciar, and the erection of the town into a free barony and 
 regality were ratified to him. This act is to be found amongst the 
 Acta Parliamentorum, Jacobi VI., and as it gives a full detail of the 
 family possessions as at that date, along with other interesting 
 particulars, the document is reproduced here in extenso: — 
 
 Forsamekle as Oure souerane lord with expres aduise and consent of his 
 hienes trustie and weil-belouit counsellour Johnne lord thirlestane his hienes 
 chancellair S r thomas lyoun of auldbar knicht thesaurair vmqle S r ludouic bellenden 
 of auchnoule knicht iustice clerk for the tyme and m r Robert douglais provest of 
 lincluden collectour generall and thesaurair of his maiesties new augmentatiounis hes 
 maid and grantit vnder his maiesties greit seill Ane charter and infeftment 
 contening ane new dispositioun for dyuerse and sindre guid caussis contenit 
 thairintill To his hienes Trustie and weil-belouit counsellour m r george lauder of 
 bass his aris maill berand the armes and surename of lauder and assignais quhat- 
 sumeuir heretablie Off all and sindre the landis of the lordschip of tynninghame 
 vndirwrittin viz the manis of tynninghame tuentie husband landis tuentie coit 
 landis fyve brewlandis the mylne of Tynninghame wardlandis gilliesichot the suyth 
 land with the fisching in the wattir of tyne alsweill fresche as salt within the sey 
 flude The lochis and cwningharis of the saidis landis of tynninghame All and 
 haill ane annuellrent of ten markis money of this realme to be vpliftet at twa 
 termes in the zeir witsonday and mertimes in winter be equall portionis furth of all 
 and haill the half of the toun of auldhame liand in the said lordschip of tynninghame 
 All and haill the principall mansioun tour and fortalice barnis zardis and doucait of 
 tynninghame The landis of briggis eister and waster grenespott baxter landis als 
 doucott aikair liand in the toun of tynninghame Off all and haill the landis of 
 lochhousse extending to tua husband landis and sex aikaris of land with all and haill 
 the landis callit harkarislandis spenslandis and gilleislandis with tennentis 
 tennandries and seruice of frie tennnentis of the foirsaidis haill landis partis 
 pendicles and pertenentis thairof lyand as said is And alsua the office of balliarie 
 of all and haill the foirsaid lordschip of tynninghame alsweill of the propirtie as 
 tennandrie thairof Off all and haill the He of bass with the pertinentis all liand 
 within the lordschip of tynninghame regalitie of sanctandrois constabularie of 
 
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 hadingtoun and scherefdome of edinburgh Off all and haill the landis of newgrange 
 pensheillis priestlaw kingisyde frieris dykes and winter scheillis with tennentis 
 tennandries and seruice of frie tennentis partis pendicles and pertinentis thairof 
 Togidder with the commoun pasture in the east and west mvres of lammermvre 
 callit the commounties of Inuerveik thornetoun and dunbar rex iue with priuilege 
 To cast and winne peittis turffis fevvall faill and dowatt In and throw the partis 
 and boundis of the saidis mvres and commounties quhaireuir the said m r george 
 and his foirsaidis sail think maist expedient liand within the said constabularie 
 of hadingtoun and sherefdome of edinburgh And of all and haill thre aikaris 
 of arable land with the pertinentis lyand beside the burgh of hadingtoun in the 
 sched callit baxterflat besyde the nungait of hadingtoun Togidder with the 
 foirsaid office of balliarie of the landis of knowis scowgall broxmonth auldhame 
 halkerslandis spenslandis gillieislandis and of the haill lordschip of tynninghame 
 alsweill of the propirtie as tenendrie of the foirsaidis haill landis and vtheris abone- 
 writtin And hes maid creat and erectit the toun of tynninghame in ane frie burgh of 
 baronie and regalitie To be callit in all tymes cuming the burgh of tynninghame 
 Gevand grantand and committand to the said burgh in all tymes cuming frie libertie 
 and priuilege to by and sell and to haue and hald within the same ane mercat day 
 ilk oulk and frie fair zierlie vpoun the xxj day of September To continew aucht dayis 
 with all and sindre vther fredomes priuilegis liberties commodities and Immvnities 
 quhatsumeuir pertening or knawin iustlie to pertene to ane frie burgh of baronie 
 with power To big ane port and heavin vpoun ony pairt of the saidis landis of 
 tynninghame quhair the sey flowis and quhair the samyne may be maist con- 
 venientlie biggit with all and sindre fredomes anchorages and custumes pertening 
 or knawin iustlie to pertene to ane port and heavin at lenth specifit and contenit in 
 the said charter And siclyk hes maid and constitute the said m r george his airis 
 maill and assignais foirsaidis his ma*' heretable iusticiaries and lordis of the direct 
 lordschip of all and sindre the landis and vtheris abonewrittin contenit in the said 
 charter alsweill of the propirtie as tennandrie thairof within and throw all the 
 boundis of the samyne and hes gevin and disponit to him the heretable iurisdictioun 
 and direct lordschip thairof with frie chapell and chancellarie with escheittis vnlawes 
 and vtheris commodities contenit thairin And hes vnite erectit creat and incorporat 
 the foirsaidis haill landis of burgh and baronie and vtheris rex iQe contenit thairin In 
 ane frie baronie and regalitie To be callit in all tymes cuming the baronie and 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 79 
 
 regalitie of tynninghame ordaning the foirsaid castell to be the principall messuage 
 of the said haill baronie And ane sesing to be tane thairat to be ane sufficient seasing 
 of the foresaidis haill landis and vtheris abone rehersit To be haldin of his maiestie 
 in fie and heretage frie baronie and regalitie heretablie for euir ffor ane certane 
 zierlie few dewty thairin contenit as the said charter of the dait the sext day of 
 august the zeir of god J M v c lxxxxj zeris in the self at mair lenth proportis. Thair 
 foir oure said souerane lord and estaitis of this present parliament for the causses 
 contenit in the said charter and for the guid trew and thankfull seruice done to his 
 maiestie and his hienes maist noble progenitouris of worthie memorie be his hienes 
 said trustie and weilbelouit counsellour m r george lauder of bass and vtheris his 
 predicessouris quhome of he hes lineallie discendit in all tymes bygane as become 
 trew and faithfull subiectis without defectioun frome thair loyall and dewtifull 
 obedience hes ratifiet apprevit and confermit and be the tennour of this present act 
 for him and his hienes successouris ratifies apprevis and perpetuallie confermis the 
 foirsaid charter and infeftment In all the heidis pointis clausses articles circumstances 
 Immvnities priuilegis and conditionis at lenth contenit thairin Efter the forme and 
 tennour of the same in all pointis And als his maiestie and estaitis foirsaidis be the 
 tennour heirof decernis declaris and ordanis the samyne To be als effectuall valide 
 and sufficient to the said m r george and his foirsaidis for thair peceablie bruiking 
 Joysing and possessing of the saidis haill landis office of balliarie port and heavin 
 burgh of baronie priuilegis liberties and Immvnities and all vtheris speciallie and 
 particdlarlie contenit in the said charter perpetuallie in all tymes cuming siclyk as 
 gif the said charter and infeftment wer at lenth insert and contenit word be word in 
 this present act Notwithstanding that the samyne is not insert nor contenit heirin 
 Anent the quhilk and with supplement of all faultis and defectionis that may be 
 proponit and obiectit aganis the said charter validitie and effect thairof Oure said 
 souerane lord with aduise of the saidis estaitis hes dispensit And be the tennour 
 heirof Irreuocablie dispenssis for euir. 
 
 This George Lauder of Bass was in a convention at Linlithgow, 
 1593; and his name appears in an act drawn up there, 31st October 
 of that year, on the occasion of the adjournment of a meeting; he 
 was in another convention at Holyrood, 1593, 1596, 1598; and at 
 
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 Edinburgh, 1594, 1596. He was in parliament, 1593, 1594, 1596, 
 1598; and he was on various commissions, 1593, 1598, and 1599. 
 In Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, under date 23rd December, 1595, 
 George Lauder of Bass is mentioned in conjunction with Charles 
 Lauder, "sone and air of vmq le Andro Lauder on Wyndpark," 
 whilst in atrial, 12th February, 1596, the Laird of Bass is exempted 
 from passing on an assize, "in respect he is a Counsallour." From 
 Chambers' Domestic Annals (vide Appendix, p. xlvi.), it would seem 
 that this George Lauder had married Isobel Hepburn, probably a 
 relative of his mother. In 162 1, there is a reference to "The 
 chartor maid be vmqle george Archebishope of S'androis to vmqle 
 Mr george Lauder of Bass and his airs Off all and haill the landis 
 of Scony Monflowrie Bambeith threipland Levin porte and heavin 
 of Levin And of the toun and baronie of Levin customes and 
 dewties belanging thairto Mylnes milnelandis multoris and fischingis 
 Off the water of Levin And off the vther liberties priuiledgis and 
 donatiounis mentionat in the said chartor and disponit to the said 
 Mr george Lauder and his aires heretablie." The charter here 
 referred to appears to have been dated 4th July, 1609. He was 
 succeeded by his son 
 
 George Lauder of Bass. The Retours of Service record 
 that George Lauder of Bass was served heir of George Lauder of 
 Bass, his father, 15th July, 16 13. Another Retour states that 
 Robert Lauder was served heir of George Lauder of Tyninghame, 
 his father, in certain properties in Haddingtonshire, 27th February, 
 1606, this being probably the beginning of the dispersion of the 
 Lauder possessions amongst the various collateral branches. That 
 the thirty-five years subsequent to the act granted to this George 
 Lauder's father, had brought sore disaster to the fortunes of the 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 81 
 
 family is abundantly made manifest by the following paragraph 
 in Chambers' Domestic Annals of Scotland, under date 2nd 
 December, 1628: — "George Lauder of the Bass, and his mother, 
 ' Dame Isobel Hepburn Lady Bass,' were at this time in 
 embarrassed circumstances, 'standing at the horn at the instance 
 of divers of their creditors.' Nevertheless, as was complained of 
 them, 'they peaceably bruik and enjoy some of their rents, and 
 remain within the craig of the Bass, presuming to keep and 
 maintein themselves, so to elude justice and execution of the law.' 
 The Lords of Council issued a proclamation, threatening George 
 Lauder and his mother with the highest pains if they did not 
 submit to the laws. A friend then came forward and represented 
 to the lords 'the hard and desolate estate' of the two rebels, and 
 obtained a protection for them, enabling them to come to 
 Edinburgh to make arrangements for the settlement of their 
 affairs." 
 
 This George Lauder and his mother are mentioned in an 
 "Act in favour of James Livingstoun of Beill " (Charles I., 1633), 
 where allusion is made to "The chartor and infeftment grantit 
 wnder his Majesties great seale . . to the said James 
 Livingstoun his airs and assignais quhatsumever Of the lands and 
 baronie of Beill Comprehending the lands baronies kirks patronages 
 and vthers mentionat in the said infeftment With the maner 
 places mylnes multors and vthers mentionat thairin Proceiding 
 vpon the resignatione of the said James Livingstoun And of 
 George lawder of bass And Issobell hepburne Lady bass his 
 mother." Further evidence of this process of dismemberment of 
 the estates is found in an "Act in favour of Maister James 
 Bannatyne of Newhall," a Senator of the College of Justice, "all 
 
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 and haill the lands of Newhall With the toure fortalice maner 
 place orcheards zeards pairts pendicles and pertinents thairof with 
 the mylne and mylne lands of Newhall astrict multurs and sequells 
 of the samyne And of all and haill the lands of Billingruge Howden 
 hiemurecroce wodheid and wodfute With the housses biggings 
 zeards toftes croftes pairts pendicles and pertinents All lyand 
 within the constabularie of Hadingtoun and shirefdome of Edinburgh 
 To be haldin fra the saids Thomas and Williame cockburnes and 
 thair airs of George lawder of Bass his airs and successors than 
 thair jmmediat lawfull superiors of the saids lands mylne and vthers 
 abonewrittine with the pertinents in fie and heretage for ever of the 
 dait at Edinburgh the saxt day of July The zeir of god j M vj c tuentie 
 zeirs Togider with the chartor of confirmatione thairof maid and 
 grantit be James Livingstoun grwme of his Majesties bedchamber 
 now superior of the saids lands mylne and vthers abonewrittin in 
 place of the said George lawder of Bass late superior thairof In 
 favours of the said Maister James bannatyne," and some years 
 later there is another document, an "Act in favour of Sir Robert 
 dowglas of Spott " (Charles I., 1633), which, in describing a 
 boundary, says: — "And thairfra passing toward the eist be the 
 arable lands of dowchrie sumtyme perteining to George lawder of 
 bass." 
 
 In further illustration of the great extent of the family estates in 
 the time of Sir Robert Lauder of Bass, reference may be made to a 
 "Ratification in favors of Sir Hugh Dalrymple of Northberwick of 
 the Lands and Barony of Northberwick," including "All and haill the 
 Lands and Barony of Northberwick comprehending the lands mills 
 teinds patronages and others underwritten to wit all and haill the 
 dominical Lands of Northberwick with the Lands called Fairmelands 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 83 
 
 or Farmeackers of old possest by Robert Lauder of Bass and his 
 subtennents with the cunninghar lands commonly called the links 
 of the samine lying betwixt the said dominical lands and the sea 
 extending the said dominical lands ackers and links in the haill to 
 fifeteen husband lands . . ." The charter was dated at Hampton 
 Court, 5th April, 1700. 
 
 And in Thomson's Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 
 (Charles II., 1661), there is an "Act in favours of Johne Earle of 
 Lauderdale his Majesties Secretarie Anent the makeing vp of his 
 writts, &c," which is the outcome of a petition made by the Earl 
 to the effect that at "the time of the late troubles the said Earle his 
 writs and evidences of his lands and others wer totallie spoiled And 
 that be putting and hyding of them vnder the ground in the yeard of 
 Balcarras wher the vnderwater came throw the seems of the yron 
 chists wherin they wer put, and spoyled the saids writs " and 
 craving that a commission be appointed to verify the alleged dis- 
 truction of the documents. The commission was appointed, and 
 they found it "sufficiently proven That the saids writts and evidents 
 wer put vnder the ground in the yeard of Balcarres in three yron 
 chists in the yeer 16 — yeers after the feight of Dumbar and that 
 the same have been totallie spoiled and losed" in the manner stated. 
 The Act, therefore, " Declars Statuts and Ordains the Inventars 
 (whairof the tenors followes and are verbatim heirafter insert) To 
 be als valeid effectuall and sufficient authentick and forceable and 
 to make als great faith in judgement and outwith the same in tyme 
 comeing. . . As if the principal! evidents wer extant of the 
 dates tenor and contents mentioned and exprest in the saids 
 Inventars." 
 
 In these lengthy inventories the following documents are cata- 
 
84 HISTOEY OF 
 
 logued : " A procuratorie of resignation be Robert Lawder of Basse 
 in the hands of the baillies of Lawder ane or mae of all and haill the 
 tenement of land bounded &c. lyeing on the southside of the streit 
 and lykewise of all and haill his sex merk land of Swanslie Lawrence- 
 land Melbotshaugh and a piece of land lyeing betuixt Sheilfeild and 
 Blakchester within the libertie of the burgh forsaid in favours of his 
 beloved Cousine William Lauder burges ther according to the 
 forme tenor and effect of ane indentit Charter to be made betuixt 
 him and the said William apud Beill 13 April 1542. . . Indented 
 Charter of all and haill the tenement forsaid and of the forsaids sex 
 merk lands of Swainslie Lawrenceland Melbotshaugh and peice of 
 land betuixt Sheilfield and Blakchester be the said Robert Lawder 
 of Basse to the said William Lawder to be holden of the King in 
 Burgage, and for payment to the hospitall of Northberwick of 20 
 merks yeerly Apud Beill 13 May 1542. Charter of warrandice 
 granted be William Lawder to William Cairncrosse of Comislie of 
 the forsaids lands and tenement in warrandice of the annualrent of 
 20 merks for the which Robert Lawder of Bass wes infeft in a 
 tenement of land in Edinburgh. Apud Lawder 13 August 1542. 
 Procuratorie of resignation be the said William Lawder in favours 
 of his son Robert Lawder his aires and assignayes of all and haill 
 the forsaids lands and tenements and diverse other tenements within 
 the burgh of Lawder apud Comuslie 25 Junij 1544. . . to 
 be holden of the Queen in burgage and for payment of 20 merks 
 to the hospitall of Northberwick builded be wmq 11 Robert Lawder 
 of Basse apud Lawder 13 Augusti 1544. . . Instrument of 
 Sasine to James Lawder as brother and air to the said Robert 
 Lawder of the tenements forsaid and of the lands of Swainslie 
 Melbotshaugh and Lawrenceland containing likewise the said 
 
THE LAUDEK FAMILY. 85 
 
 James his resignation of the saids tenements and lands in 
 favours of Gilbert Lawder his brother . . 1560. . . Charter 
 granted be the said James Lawder brother and air to Robert 
 Lawder of the tenements and lands exprest in the tuo former 
 instruments of the said Gilbert Lawder likewise his brother &c to 
 be holden of the Queen in burgage and for payment of the few 
 ferme vsed and wont To Robert Lawder of Basse and his aires 
 Apud Lawder 20 January 1563. . . A contract betuixt the 
 said William Lawder and Andrew Lawder in Melvinemilne 
 takeing the burden on him for James and Robert his sons 
 beareing a wodset of the saids lands and tenements vncler 
 reversion of 1000 lib at Edinburgh 7 August 1635. 
 Disposition be William Lawder to me of his burgeship of 
 Lawder with his aiker and parte belonging therto beareing a 
 procuratorie of resignatione at Gilbertoun 24 Aprile 1637. 
 
 The time at which the Bass Rock itself ceased to be numbered 
 amongst the possessions of the Lauder family is not apparent. 
 There can be no doubt, however, that this ancient crag, with 
 which their name had been so long associated, would be about the 
 last portion of the estates with which the Lairds of Bass would 
 part. Indeed, there is evidence in support of this assumption. In 
 1 58 1, James the Sixth paid a visit to the Bass, and in the 
 Treasurer's accounts in this reign, under the above date, is 
 entered as paid: — "Item, To Alexander Zoung, his Hienes 
 servitour for his Grace's extraordinar expenses in his jornay 
 towardis the Bass, conforme to his Hienes precept, as the samin 
 with his acquittance producit vpon compt proportes, xl. li." 
 (,£40:0:0). James seems to have conceived a strong desire to 
 obtain possession of it for the Crown. It is said that he offered 
 
86 HISTORY OF 
 
 the Laird of Bass whatever he pleased to ask for the Island; 
 upon which Lauder replied, "Your Majesty must e'en resign it 
 to me, for I'll have the auld crag back again." The Rock is 
 said to have fallen into other hands shortly after this, but the 
 foregoing charter to George Lauder shows that it must have 
 remained in the possession of the family for more than a dozen 
 years longer, as that document is dated in 1593, and is likely to 
 have remained in force for some time, whilst, at a later date 
 (December, 1628), George Lauder and his mother are known 
 to have resided on the Bass. Charles I. instituted a claim to 
 the possession of the rock, the following being among his 
 Instructions to the President of the Session, 10th November, 
 1626: — "That you causse prosecute our right concerning the 
 Bass, with all expedition, for affectuatting of that end you have 
 from us." However, in April, 165 1, a requisition was sent to 
 the keeper of the Bass praying that the island might be made 
 secure for the safe keeping of the Church records from an 
 anticipated — (and ultimately successful) — attack by Cromwell, to 
 which answer was made that "the Laird of Wauchton, to whom 
 that strength belongs, being personallie present, most gladlie 
 offered to receave them," and, two years later, (31st July, 1663, 
 Charles II.), an act of parliament opens with the phrase — "For- 
 asmuch as be ane act of the pretendit Committie of Estates in 
 January 165 1 It appeares that the laird of Waughtoun and his 
 servants who had the keepeing of the house of Bass for the 
 tyme . ." Having fallen into the possession, first of the 
 Laird of Waughton, and thereafter of Sir Andrew Ramsay of 
 Abbotshall, the Bass was purchased from the latter in October, 
 167 1, by Lord Lauderdale, in name of the Government to become 
 
THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 87 
 
 a state prison, and in 1706, it was granted by the Crown to 
 President Sir Hew Dalrymple, reserving the power of re-fortify- 
 ing it should this be expedient. It remains the property of 
 his lineal descendant, Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick, 
 Baronet. 
 
 This George Lauder, according to Calderwood's History of 
 Scotland, was knighted on the occasion of the coronation of King 
 James the Sixth's Queen, 17th May, 1590. This authority states 
 that before the Queen " went out of the chamber, the Chancellor 
 was made Lord Thirlstane and the Laird of Basse and several 
 others were dubbed knights." As may be seen from the charter on 
 page 77, the Laird of Bass at that time was George Lauder, father 
 of this George Lauder. The latter was probably succeeded by 
 
 Sir Robert Lauder of Bass. Robert Chambers, in the pre- 
 face to his Scottish Songs, says, on the subject of "Maggie Lauder," 
 that in an old manuscript volume of genealogical collections which 
 he had discovered in the library of the Faculty of Advocates, he 
 found a note to an account of the ancient family of Lauder of the 
 Bass, narrating that: — 
 
 "There hath been a tradition in the Burgh of North Berwick, and country 
 about, handed down to this time from father to son, that when Oliver Cromwell, 
 that grand usurper, hypocrite, and great wicked man, lay with his army encamped 
 about Dunbar, before the battle of Downhill, that he had sent a party to North 
 Berwick, where Sir Robert Lander, then of Bass, had his house, with barnyard and 
 other office houses. The party entered the barn, where the corn was sacked up, 
 ready to be carried out to be sown; the party having offered to carry off the 
 corn for the use of their master, the Lord Protector (as they called him) his army, 
 Sir Robert's servant went into the house, and acquainted Mrs. Margaret alias 
 Maggy Lauder, Sir Robert's sister, who had the management of his family and 
 affairs. She immediately ordered the sharpest knife and flail to be brought to her, 
 
88 HISTOEY OF 
 
 and went into the barn, where, after upbraiding the party, she ripped up the sacks, 
 and managed the flail with such dexterity, that she beat off the party; for which she 
 most deservedly may be accounted amongst the greatest and most glorious heroines 
 of the age. Sir Robert was obliged at that time to abscond because he was a loyalist, 
 as all of that and other families of that name have almost always been, and still 
 continue." 
 
 The battle of Dunbar took place on 3rd February, 1650, at 
 which time, as already stated, the Bass was in the keeping of the 
 Laird of Waughton. This Sir Robert Lauder was apparently the 
 last of his line. 
 
 But even this comprehensive dispersion of the estates belong- 
 ing to the Lauders of Bass did not wholly exhaust the family 
 connection with the patrimony, for the lands of Beilhaven and 
 West Barns, which had been received from his father by Robert 
 Lauder, younger, were inherited by his son, 
 
 Maurice Lauder, who seems to have sat in parliament for 
 Dunbar in 1585. According to Nisbet he was succeeded by his 
 son, 
 
 Alexander Lauder; but, in 1641, there is a confirmation of 
 a grant of land "To vmq" Williame Lauder in belheaven sone 
 and aire of vmq 11 Mawries Lawder burges of Dumbar for all the 
 dayes of his lyftyme And efter his deceis to Alexander Lawder 
 his eldest soune and than appeirand aire." Alexander received 
 a charter of these lands, granted by King James VI., of the 
 date 1594, to him and to his eldest son, 
 
 George Lauder, who married Elizabeth Lauder, and who 
 granted, in 1666, a disposition and charter of the lands of 
 Belhaven and West Barns to his eldest son, 
 
 Robert Lauder of Belhaven and West Barns, who is said, 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 89 
 
 by Nisbet, to have married in 1672, Mary, daughter of Patrick 
 Douglas of Standingstone. The armorial bearings of this Robert 
 Lauder are those described by Nisbet (Appendix, p. viii.). He 
 was in Parliament 1685, and was a Commissioner of Supply 
 for Haddington 1689, 1690. He, in turn, granted a charter to 
 his eldest son, 
 
 Robert Lauder, afterwards Sir Robert Lauder, designed of 
 Beilmouth. Sir Robert was in parliament 1704, and married, 
 25th April, 1694, the Hon. Helen Ogilvy, a daughter of George, 
 second Lord Banff. He was succeeded by 
 
 Archibald Lauder, who was served heir to his father, Sir 
 Robert Lauder of Beilmouth, 22nd April, 17 10. His suc- 
 cessor was 
 
 Robert Lauder of Beilmouth, who, it would appear from 
 the Indexes to Services, married Marjory, daughter of Mr. John 
 Hendry, Edinburgh. Stodart's Scottish Arms says that he seems 
 to have been the last of his line. 
 
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 CHAP. XIV. 
 
 Thus, with the exception of the Fountainhall line, all the 
 other collateral branches either had become extinct or were merged 
 in some other family. It is not, however, to be supposed that the 
 name of Lauder had on that account ceased to be a household word 
 in the district with which the name and fortunes of the family 
 had so long been united. It is evident that the Lauders could not 
 all find adequate accommodation on the island of the Bass, and we 
 know from the charter previously alluded to (p. 40), that so far 
 back as 1381-88 Sir Alan Lauder received from James, Earl of 
 Douglas, extensive property in the burgh of North Berwick ; and 
 with this town the branch of the family which we are proceeding 
 to consider was continuously and intimately connected for many 
 generations. Playfair says that the Lauders of that ilk had for 
 long been heritable bailies of Lauderdale; and Stodart remarks 
 that "from 1471 to 1600 the barons of Bass sat in almost every 
 parliament." In like manner, the branch now under consideration, 
 who were resident on the mainland, may be said to have had the 
 management of the municipal affairs of the burgh under their hands 
 from about 1500 till the beginning of the present century. The 
 first of this line of whom there is notice is 
 
 John Lauder, a contemporary and probably a brother of 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 91 
 
 Robert Lauder, younger, of the Bass. In the Protocol Book of 
 North Berwick, John Lauder is Bailie August, 1544; whilst John 
 Lauder, captain of the Bass, occurs November, 1561. The next 
 appears to be 
 
 Thomas Lauder, who was a bailie 1545— 1553 ; February, 1555- 
 1560. He is mentioned in the Protocol Book, January, 1562, 1563; 
 8th October, 1565, 1566, and May, 1569. 
 
 Thomas Lauder, younger, is referred to 1570, and " Thomas 
 Lauder, filius Thoma Lauder, burgess de North Berwick," 15 71. 
 He attended the Conventions of Royal Burghs on behalf of North 
 Berwick at various places, 1578 to 1612. (Appendix p. xxxvi.). 
 
 Alexander Lauder was Commissioner for North Berwick at 
 a Convention held at Edinburgh, 28th March, 1626, and he was a 
 town councillor 7th May and 10th October, 1638. 
 
 John Lauder, elder, was in the town council of North 
 Berwick, 9th July, 1653, and 23rd October, 1661. He was Bailie 
 3rd October, 1655. The Stent Rolls of North Berwick allude to 
 him, April, 1658; July, 1661; April, 1663; May, 1664; August- 
 September, 1665 ; 1666; and finally, December- January, 1669-1670. 
 He died 31st July, 1671, having married Anna Olipher, by whom 
 he had his eldest son, 
 
 John Lauder, younger, who was a town councillor 6th 
 December, 1681, and a bailie, 19th March, 1656; 2nd February, 
 1676; 16th March, 1679; 1st August, 1681; 1st October, 1682; 
 27th October, 1689 to 27th October, 1690; 15th February and 
 2nd August, 1692; 2nd August, 1693. He is witness to a 
 baptism 29th October, 1654. He is mentioned in the Stent Rolls, 
 April, 1658; July, 1661 ; April, 1663; August-September, 
 1665; 1666; December-January, 1669-1670. He had by his 
 
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 first wife two sons and a daughter, and by his second wife, 
 Anne Crawford (probably a daughter of William Crawford, like- 
 wise a bailie and contemporary of John Lauder, elder), whom he 
 married in December, 1660; he had issue: two sons and three 
 daughters. His eldest son by this second marriage was 
 
 Archibald Lauder, who was baptized 15th December, 1661. 
 He was a councillor 14th December, 1685; and a bailie 7th June, 
 1694; nth November, 1699; 3rd June, 1700; 13th May, 1701; 
 8th March, 1703; 11th November, 1704; and 21st March, 1705. 
 He is again bailie, 4th October, 1 7 1 5, and 28th September, 171 7. 
 Archibald Lauder married Jean Home, likely a daughter of Bailie 
 Alexander Home of North Berwick, and by her had issue: five 
 sons and four daughters. His second son, 
 
 Alexander Lauder, was baptized 22nd January, 1691. This 
 member of the family seems also to have aspired to municipal 
 honours, as the Stent Rolls, 1763-4, allude to "the late Bailie 
 Alexander Lauder." He married Beatrix Yule, and had four 
 children, a daughter and three sons, the eldest of whom, 
 
 Hugh Lauder, was baptized 20th April, 1718. He married 
 in December, 1737, Elizabeth Hogg, daughter of Bailie Thomas 
 Hogg and Agnes Murray — she having been baptized 8th January, 
 1 72 1. Hugh Lauder's name occurs in the Stent Rolls under date 
 March, 1744, 1765-6; 1772; 1780; whilst in 1763-4, Bailie Hew 
 Lauder is mentioned. His family consisted of three sons and a 
 daughter, the eldest of whom was 
 
 Archibald Lauder. He was baptized 15th December, 1737, 
 and married Marion Anderson, who died in June, 1820. Her 
 husband predeceased her, he having died in March, 1818. They 
 are both buried in the churchyard of North Berwick, of which 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 93 
 
 burgh he had long been Chief Magistrate. He was consequently 
 the last representative of the family to hold office in the local 
 parliament, a seat in which seems to have been transmitted from 
 father to son for about ten generations. He had a numerous 
 family: six sons and five daughters. The eldest son, 
 
 Robert Lauder, was born nth May, 1764. He married 
 Anne Boag, and had issue four sons and two daughters. The 
 youngest son, Richard Lauder, born 12th July, 1 791, married 
 Margaret Latta, and died at Leith, 18th May, 1864. He was 
 apparently the last of his line resident in North Berwick, and the 
 last of the name to be interred in the family burying-ground there. 
 Robert's eldest son was 
 
 Archibald Lauder, who was born in 18 12, and married 
 25th October, 1831, Eliza Gordon. He died at Glasgow in 
 1867. His family consisted of seven sons and two daughters, 
 the third son being again 
 
 Archibald Lauder, the promoter of this work. On 8th 
 October, 1861, he married Janet Robertson, and has issue ten sons 
 and four daughters. 
 
 The line which we have just followed has been mainly traced 
 by searching the Registers of the parish of North Berwick — 
 (1654 to 1 8 19) — which are preserved in the General Registry 
 Office, Edinburgh, whilst References of date prior to 1654 have 
 been obtained from the Archieves of that Burgh. The Records 
 subsequent to 1st January, 1820, are still retained in the parishes 
 to which they pertain. 
 
 The gradual growth of this branch of the family, and the 
 extent of its ramification, will readily be perceived by a slight 
 examination of the accompanying diagram, representing the 
 
94 
 
 HISTORY OF 
 
 pebigree of tbe Xaubers of IRortb Berwick 
 
 John Laddeb, elder. = Anna Olipher. 
 d. July 31, 1071. I 
 
 Alexander. Helen 
 bapt. Feb. 20, May 10, 
 1655. 1657. 
 
 John, younger. ■= 2nd, Anne Crawford. 
 m. Dee., 1660. 
 
 John. 
 
 Apr. 30, 
 
 1660. 
 
 Abchibald. = Jean Home. Robert. Anna. 
 Dec. 15, I Sept. 28, Mar. 13, 
 
 1661. 1663. 1668. 
 
 William. Joan. 
 May 7, Mar. 23, 
 1670. 1678. 
 
 John. =- Agnes Oliver. 
 
 bapt. 
 
 Mar. 23, 
 
 1689. 
 
 d. Jan. 
 1709. 
 
 George. Thomas. Agnes. 
 lapt. Deo. 1, Jan. S, May 12, 
 
 1709. 1712. 1714. 
 
 Marion. 
 
 bapt. Nov. 27, 
 
 1715. 
 
 
 Alexander, = 
 lapt. Jan. 22, 
 1691. 
 
 = Beatrix Yule. 
 
 Robert. 
 
 Feb. 26, 
 
 1693. 
 
 Archibald. 
 
 Nov. 29, 
 
 1695. 
 
 1 
 
 Marion 
 
 Sept. 26 
 
 1697. 
 
 1 
 Anna. 
 , Aug. 27, 
 1700. 
 
 1 
 
 Betty. 
 
 July 2, 
 
 1703. 
 
 Hew. 
 
 Apr. 28, 
 
 1706. 
 
 1 
 Jean. 
 Jan. 9, 
 1709. 
 
 
 
 Thomas Hogg. = Agnes Murray. 
 
 L 
 
 i i i 
 
 Hugh. = Elizabeth Hogg. Robert. 
 
 Apr. 20, Jan. 8, July 9, 
 
 1718. 1721. 1721. 
 m. Dec. 1736 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 Nov. 10, 
 
 1723. 
 
 I 
 Archibald. 
 bapt. Dec. 15, 
 
 1737. 
 d. Mar. 1818. 
 
 Marion Anderson. 
 d. June, 1820. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Jan. 22, 
 
 1742. 
 
 Marion. 
 
 6. Aug. 4, 
 
 1772. 
 
 I 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Dec. 31. 
 
 1772. 
 
 Janet. 
 
 Sept. 3, 
 
 1775. 
 
 Hugh. 
 
 Jan. 23, 
 
 1777. 
 
 Robert. = Anne Boag. 
 I. May 11, 
 
 William Shirra. 
 June 16, 
 
 1785. 
 
 John. 
 
 Mar. 10, 
 
 1779. 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 Aug. 22, 
 
 17S8. 
 
 Elizabeth. Archibald. — Eliza Gordon. 
 
 h. 1812. 
 d. 1867. 
 
 m. 25th Oct., 1831. 
 
 Robert, 
 
 May 27, 
 
 1743. 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 Nov. 1, 
 
 1745. 
 
 Margaret Anderson. 
 Jan. 1, 1780. 
 
 Agnes Hume. 
 
 Oct. 28, 
 
 1781. 
 
 Richard. 
 
 . July 12, 1791. 
 
 d. May 18, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Robert. 
 
 I 
 Richard. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Robert. 
 
 I 
 
 John. 
 
 I I 
 
 James. Richard 
 
 Thomas. 
 
 ARCHIBALD. = Janet Robertson 
 I 
 
 Jessie. 
 
 Alexander. 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 95 
 
 The following are verbatim extracts from the Registers of 
 North Berwick of those entries which specially affect the particular 
 line adhered to in the foregoing tree. It may be observed that 
 the mothers' names are not inserted in the Birth Registers 
 until 1686: — 
 
 Decemb. 13 (1660) 
 
 Contracted John Lauder, bailiffe, with Anna Craufoord both in this Congreg" 
 
 Decemb. 13 (1661) 
 
 Also baptized Ard. Lawder sonne lawfull to John Lawder younger, witnesses 
 Mr. William Heage Robert Waker 
 
 July 31 (1671) 
 
 Deceased John Lauder elder relict of umq le Anna Olipher 
 
 Jan. 22 (i6gi ) 
 
 Bapt : Alexander son law 11 to Archibald Lauder and Jean Hoome in Kinbeith 
 Mills, witt. John Lauder in Northberwicke and John Crawfoord in the Rodes 
 
 Apr. 20 (1718) 
 
 Alex r Lauder & Beatrix Youle in this paroch had a child baptized here named 
 (Hugh) wit. James Watson & John Lauder 
 
96 HISTOEY OF 
 
 Jan. 8 (1721) 
 
 Thomas Hogg and Agnes Murray had a child baptized called (Elizabeth) 
 witnesses Wm Hogg and Walter Castelan 
 
 Def- 11 (1736) 
 
 Hugh Lauder & Elizabeth Hogg both in this parish gave up their names to be 
 proclaimed in order to marriage — witnesses Alexander Lauder & John MKenzie 
 
 De<*- 15 (1737) 
 
 Hugh Lauder and Elizabeth Hogg had a child baptized (Archbald) witnesses 
 Robert Hogg & Alex r Lauder 
 
 May 13th (1784) 
 
 Archibald Lauder merch' & Marrion Anderson his wife had a son born nth 
 baptized the above date. Witnesses, Messrs W m Swinton & W m Hogg & named 
 Robert 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 97 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 It may perhaps be of advantage to take brief notice here of 
 some members of the Lauder family whose records have not 
 hitherto fallen within the scope of our narrative, but who, in a work 
 of this nature, cannot be altogether left out of view. We there- 
 fore append, in chronological order, a short account of a few of 
 these offshoots, beginning with 
 
 The Lauders of Quarrelwood. As stated in a previous 
 chapter (p. 38), it is supposed that Sir Robert Lauder, about 1333, 
 acquired the lands of Quarrelwood, Grieshop, Brightmoney, and 
 Kinsteary, which continued to be possessed by his descendants in 
 the female line for many generations. An only daughter of Sir 
 Robert Lauder, Ann, was married in 1335, to Sir Robert Chisholme, 
 who was descended from a Roxburgh family of that name, and her 
 father conveyed to her, or her husband in her right, the lands of 
 Quarrelwood, Brightmoney, Kinsteary, and others. Sir Robert 
 Chisholme had a daughter, Janet, married to Hugh Rose of Kil- 
 ravock, January, 1365, and to whom he conveyed various lands in 
 Strathnairn. This Sir Robert Chisholme was at that time Con- 
 stable of Urquhart Castle, a charge conferred upon him in 1364, in 
 succession to his father-in-law, Sir Robert Lauder. An extract 
 from the marriage contract will be found in the Appendix, 
 
HISTORY OF 
 
 No. xxxvi. Sir Robert is supposed to have had no heir-male of 
 his own body, and to have been succeeded by his brother, John 
 Chisholme. He, in turn, was succeeded by his son, Robert 
 Chisholme, who had a daughter and only child, Morella, proprietrix 
 of the lands of Quarrel wood, etc., the heir-male of the Chisholmes 
 succeeding to the paternal estate in Strathglass. Morella Chis- 
 holme married Alexander Sutherland, third laird of Duffus, of 
 that name, who thereupon added to his armorial bearings a boar's 
 head erased, being part of the arms of Chisholme. 
 
 Edward Lauder. Edwardus de Lauadre, archidiaconus 
 Laudonie, is mentioned under date 25th February, 1425, and 
 according to the Rotuli Scotice "Edwardus de Lawedre,, archi- 
 diaconus de Lauden in ecclia. Sti. Andree in Scotia " had a safe- 
 conduct from Henry VI., 4th February, 1423-4. Again he had 
 safe-conducts from that king 8th June, 1424, and 9th June, 1425. 
 He was described as "a man both learned and wyse." 
 
 John Lauder, designated by Calderwood " Parsoun of Mar- 
 bottle," and by Foxe, "parson of Morebattle," acted as public 
 prosecutor in the trials of several of the Scots Worthies, about the 
 middle of the sixteenth century. An interesting extract from The 
 Works of John Knox will be found in the Appendix (p. xviii.) 
 in re the trial of George Wishart, at which Lauder acted as public 
 accuser. John Lauder was educated at St. Andrews, and his 
 name occurs among the Licentiates " in Pedagogio," in the year 
 1508. In a Decree dated at St. Andrews, 16th October, 15 18, he 
 designates himself: " Ego Johannes Lauder, artium magister, 
 clericus Sancti Andrese diocesis, publicus sacris Apostolica et 
 Imperiali auctoritatibus notarius, ac in officio Scriptoris archivii 
 Romane Curie matriculatus ac descriptus." As may be seen from 
 
THE LAUDEB FAMILY. 
 
 the extract just referred to, he was frequently employed in Church 
 matters at Rome and elsewhere. As one of the auditors of the 
 Chamberlain's accounts for the Archbishoprick of St. Andrews 
 from 1540 to 1549, he was styled Archdeacon of Teviotdale; and 
 in February, 155 1, he was designated Archedene of Teviotdale 
 and Notary Public of St. Andrews. According to the Extracta ex 
 Varus Cronicis Scocie, 5th June, 1542, " M. Villiem Gybsone, 
 byschop of Libariensis and suffraganeus to Dawid Beton, Cardynall 
 and Archebysschop of Santandros, consecrat and dedicat the paris 
 kyrk in the craig of the Bass, in honor of Sant Baldred, bysschop 
 and confessor, in presens of maister Jhon Lawder, arsdene of 
 Teuidaill, noter publict." In 1551, this John Lauder signed a deed 
 as " Secretarius " of Archbishop Hamilton. A note to The Works 
 of John Knox says: "as this deed was cancelled, and reconfirmed 
 in 1556, without any notice of his name, it may be conjectured that 
 he died during that interval." It is elsewhere stated, however, 
 that John Lauder, Archdeacon of Tweeddale is witness to a con- 
 firmation charter of George Dury to the burgesses of Dunfermline, 
 2nd August, 1549. — (Henderson's A nnals of Dunfermline, p, 197). 
 Henry Lauder of St. Germain's, who had been king's 
 advocate, was appointed a senator of the College of Justice, 13th 
 January, 1538. He was son of Gilbert Lauder, an Edinburgh 
 burgess. Gilbert Lauder was a bailie of the City of Edinburgh, 
 15th November, 1520; 15th April, 1521; and he was one of the 
 Council, 1534-5; 1536; 1537; and 1539. In the Registrum Car- 
 torum Domus de Soltre, under date 16th August, 15 16, mention is 
 made of " Magister et Dominus Henricus Lauder," and in a 
 letter sent to the Court of Session by the king, he is styled "our 
 lovit familiar clerk, Mr. Henry Lauder, our advocate." In 1538, 
 
100 HISTORY OF 
 
 Mary of Guise, widow of the Due de Longueville, was married to 
 James V. in the cathedral of St. Andrews, and on the occasion of 
 the Queen's entry into the capital, it was " devysit that Maister 
 Henry Lawder be the persoun to welcum the Quenis grace in sic 
 abulyement, and with the words in Fransche, as sail be devysit with 
 avyse of Maister Adame Otterburne, Maister James Fowlis and 
 Dauid Lyndsay." He was king's advocate and in parliament 
 1538; 1540; 1 541; and, in 1542, he voted for the appointment of 
 the Earl of Arran as Governor of Scotland. He was Commissioner 
 for holding parliament, 1544; 1545; 1546 and 1548. In Pitcairn's 
 Criminal Trials Mr. Henry Lauder is alluded to as queen's 
 advocate, 25th June, 1557. Henry Lauder, advocate, was served 
 heir of his father, Gilbert Lauder, burgess in Edinburgh, "in 
 certain lands of old entent " in Kirkcudbrightshire, 25th October, 
 1556. In the Appendix (No. xxxii.) will be found several other 
 Retotirs of Service consequent on the death of this Gilbert. Henry 
 Lauder died in 1561. 
 
 Jean Lauder. John Lindsay, brother to Sir David Lindsay 
 of Edzell, born in 1552, raised to the bench by the title of Lord 
 Menmuir, married for his first wife Dame Marion Guthrie ; for his 
 second wife Dame Jean Lauder, the Dowager Lady of Corstor- 
 phine — "a termagant," says Lord Lindsay, " concerning whom I 
 have nothing pleasing to relate, except the fact of her husband's 
 forbearance, and the provision he made for her comfort after his 
 decease." He had no issue by her. A note to the Lives of the 
 Lindsays describes "Articles of agreement between Mr. John 
 Lindsay (Lord Menmuir) and Dame Jean Lauder his spouse," 
 signed at Edzell, 15th May, 1595. She had been imprisoned 
 in consequence of her outrageous behaviour. She was to live with 
 
THE LAUDER FAMILY. 101 
 
 him in his houses of Balcarres, Edinburgh, and Clerkington, and 
 to receive a thousand marks a year, and she engages on her part to 
 desist from all enormities of conduct in future, and she undertakes 
 to procure the obligation of Mr. George Lauder of the Bass, and 
 others of the name, and the Sinclairs of Roslin and Ravensheuch, 
 that the said Lady Jean Lauder shall not meddle with her 
 husband's effects, &c. These articles are signed by all the 
 Lauders, and also by the Lindsays — Lord Menmuir's friends. 
 " Dame Jean Lauder," observes Riddell the historian, "must have 
 had something of the turbulence of the Bass Rock and winds in 
 her, being evidently of the old Lauders of the Bass, who preferred 
 Bass to all the world." 
 
 Robert Lauder was a notary public who practised in North 
 Berwick and its neighbourhood in the middle of the sixteenth 
 century, Every Protocol in the Protocol Book of North Berwick 
 ( I 539~ 1 573) ls subscribed by "Robertus Lawder notarius manu 
 sua qua supra." In the Carte Monialium de Northberwic he is 
 styled "Robertus Lauder, capellanus, 12th August, 1544, and 30th 
 March, 1562, whilst in the Liber Collegii nostre Domine (The 
 Book of our Lady College) a document " Littera dominarum 
 Priorisse et conuentus monastery de Northbervik " (29th Novem- 
 ber, 1 541) is signed by the prioress and others of the sisters 
 " withe oure handis at the penn before the witness abouewrittyn and 
 the notaris followyng: — . , . Robertus Lauder presbyter 
 Sanctiandree diocesis sacra auctoritate Apostolica notarius." 
 
 Colin Lauder. The Hotise of Edgar states (p. 9) that Dr. 
 Colin Lauder was a direct descendant of the first baronet of 
 Fountainhall. He married Margaret, daughter of James Edgar, 
 writer in Edinburgh, an honorary burgess of the city, and private 
 
102 THE LAUDEE FAMILY. 
 
 clerk or secretary to Sir Gilbert Elliot, the first baronet of that 
 family. Colin Lauder appears as a member of the Royal College 
 of Physicians in Ruddiman's Edinburgh Almanac for 1 799, and 
 as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons 1799, and also 
 in 1809. 
 
 A very cursory perusal of some of the lists of names to be 
 found in the Appendix will suffice to show that, besides the lines 
 which have been followed in the preceding pages, many other 
 branches of the family may easily be traced. The interested 
 reader is particularly referred to the extracts from the Rotuli 
 Scotice — which, it may be noted, however, are awanting from 22nd 
 January, 1327, to 1st April, 1333 — to the Fasti Ecclesice Scoticance 
 and to the Retours of Service. 
 
 THE END. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. I. 
 
 From Play/air's "British Antiquity." Appendix, page 216 (Vol. vin.). 
 
 Lauder. 
 
 The chief was Lauder of Lauderstower. Bass disputes for it, but the earliest 
 charter of Bass bears " Joanni Lauder, filio secundo genito de Laudertown." 
 
 Hatton is certainly descended of Laudertower, but so ancient, that one of 
 his predecessors was at the Holy Wars with David, brother to King William, and 
 got there, for his crest, a Saracen's head and a sword. 
 
 The chief of the name was Lauder of Hatton, in West-Lothian, whose prede- 
 cessor, Sir Allan Lauder of Norton, in the days of King Bobert the Bruce, acquired 
 the lands of Hatton from John Hatton of that Ilk, and was confirmed therein by the 
 
 said King; he married Elizabeth Campbell, daughter to Campbell of Lochawe, 
 
 predecessor to the Earl of Argyll, and was killed, with the Lord Douglas, in Spain, 
 as he returned from the Holy Sepulchre. 
 
 These of the family have been very considerable barons, and since that time 
 they were Heretable Bailies of Lauderdale. 
 
 Alexander Lauder of Hatton did quit the office in favour of John Maitland, 
 Lord Thirlstane, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, whose sister Mary he had married, 
 but had no sons, and he gave his estates and second daughter to Charles Maitland, 
 Earl of Lauderdale, brother-german to the Duke ; but the family was represented 
 by Lauder of Bielmouth. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. II. 
 
 From "Burke's Peerage," 1847 and 1878. 
 
 The surname of Lauder, anciently De Lavedre, is of Norman origin, and the 
 Scottisli historians mention the first De Lavedre as one of those Anglo-Norman 
 barons, who accompanied Malcolm Canmore into Scotland in 1056 to assist that 
 prince in recovering his kingdom from the usurper Macbeth ; for this important 
 service De Lavedre obtained from the king grants of lands, particularly in Berwick- 
 shire, to which he gave his own name, as other knights, similarly recompensed, did, 
 in obedience, according to Boethius, of a direct royal command to that effect. De 
 Lavedre was also invested with the hereditary bailieship of Lauderdale. 
 The next of the family of whom there is particular notice is — 
 Kobertus de Lavedee, who seems to have been the 5th baron in descent from 
 the above — he was a Soldier of the Cross in 1188 j after him came — 
 
 Robert de Lavedre, who witnesses a charter of John de Mautelant to the abbey 
 of Dryburgh. 
 
 William de Lowedre of Lowther, Sheriff of Perth, 1251, who witnesses a 
 charter of King Alexander III. 
 
 Sir Bobert de Lavedre of the Bass, who fought at Stirling Bridge in 1297, 
 and died in 1311. 
 
 Sir Robert de Lawedre of the Bass, the brave associate of Sir William 
 Wallace, who had a charter from William de Lamberton, bishop of St. Andrews, 
 of that fragment of the island of Bass over which the abbey of St. Andrews had until 
 then retained a right, the Lauders having already possessed the larger part of it for 
 some generations. This charter was stolen along with a number of other documents 
 from Grange House, Edinburgh, by a housebreaker, 18th September, 1836, and has 
 never been recovered. This Sir Robert was ambassador to England from Robert I. 
 upon various occasions. In 1323, he was one of the proxies in the oath of peace with 
 Edward II., on which occasion he swore " on the soul of the Bruce," for its due main- 
 tenance by the Scottish king. He was justiciary of the Lothians and that part of 
 Scotland to the south of the Forth, in 1328, and in 1333 he was present at the 
 battle of Halidon, though he was then too old to dismount and take a part in the 
 fight, which took place on foot. His son — 
 
 Sir Robert de Lavedre, was also at the battle of Halidon Hill, in the 3rd 
 division of the army, under Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway. After the defeat, 
 Sir Robert hastened to occupy Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, for David II. ; it stands 
 recorded as one of the four Scottish strongholds which defied the power of 
 Edward III. He was frequently designed "of Quarrelwood" in Moray, and by that 
 title gives a charter of lands in and near his burgh of Lauder to Thomas de Borthwick, 
 which is witnessed by John Mautelant (Maitland), the 6th of the Lauderdale family. 
 His son — 
 
 Sir Alan de Lawedre, witnesses the above charter, and has several charters 
 for different lands in 1370, one of which is for half of the lands of Lauder. He has 
 also a charter of the lands of Halton (Hattoun) in the Barony of Ratho, from John de 
 Halton. He married Alicia, daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Lochawe, the 9th of 
 the Argyll family, by whom, besides Robert his successor, he had William, bishop of 
 Glasgow and chancellor of Scotland in 1423, who built the steeple of Glasgow 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Caths&ral ; another son of Sir Alan de Lawedre, was Alexander, bishop of Dunkeld 
 in 1440. Sir Alan de Lawedre was killed with "the Douglas" in Spain, and was 
 succeeded by his eldest son — 
 
 Sie Eobbrt Lawedre of Bass, surnamed " Robert with the boreit Whynger," 
 one of the ambassadors to Henry V. of England in 1 424, as was also his brother 
 bishop William the chancellor, to treat about the liberation of King James the First 
 of Scotland, when he was designed " Our lovite of the Bass." He married Agnes 
 Fallow, and by her had a son — ■ 
 
 Sir .Robert Lawdre, called of Edrington, and designed "son of our lovite of the 
 Bass." He was one of those appointed to convey the Queen's portion of 2000 marks to 
 Edward IV. in 1477. He purchased Biel (Haddingtonshire) in 1489, is designed of 
 Bass, in 1506, and had a safe conduct to England in 1511, from Henry the Eighth. 
 He married Isabel, 2nd daughter of John Hay, the first Lord Yester, by whom he bad — 
 
 Sir Eobert Lawder of Bass, so designed in a curious indenture between him 
 and the preaching friars of Dundee, of date 1531, which document was also robbed 
 from the charter chest in 1836, and never recovered. Down to this Sir Eobert, the 
 titles of Lauder and of Bass were indiscriminately used by the family, and it is his 
 armorial bearings that are given as those of Lauder of Bass, in the works of Sir 
 David Lindsay of the Mount, Lord Lion King at Arms. He married Alison or 
 Mariotta Cranstoun, and died in 1561. Besides his eldest son, Eichard Lauder of 
 Lauder, who was his successor, he left a son Eobert, to whom he gave the Bass and 
 other East-Lothian lands, thus creating a separate family with that title. 
 
 Eichard Ladder of Lauder, was a senator of the College of Justice, by 
 the title of Lord Lauder; and as his successor was appointed in 1575, he must have 
 died before that year. He married Mary, daughter of MacDowall of Mackairston, by 
 whom he had his eldest son Eobert Lauder of Lauder, who flourished in 1575, whose 
 line terminating by the death of his son and grandson, the direct line was carried on 
 by Eichard's second son — ■ 
 
 William Lauder (erroneously called Eobert by Nisbet), who flourished 
 about 1575 and 1600, and who married Jean, daughter of Bellenden of Lasswade. 
 By her he had three sons, Eobert and William, who both d.s.p., and— 
 
 Andrew Lauder, who resided at Melvin Mill about 1595. By his first 
 wife, Janet, daughter of Eamsay of Hillhead or Polton, a cadet of the Dalhousie 
 family, he had his eldest son— 
 
 I. John Lauder, Esq., of Newington, Edrington, and Fountainhall, who 
 was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1688, and who, as has been shewn by the 
 extinction of the elder branches, became the representative of the family. Sir John 
 married Isabel Elleis of Morton Hall, and was succeeded by his eldest son — 
 
 II. Sir John Lauder, 2nd bart., who was nominated a senator of the 
 College of Justice, by the title of Lord Fountainhall in 1689. He was the well- 
 known author of the " Law Decisions " and many curious historical manuscripts. He 
 married Janet, daughter of Sir Andrew Eamsay of Abbotshall, baronet, also a senator 
 of the College of Justice by the title of Lord Abbotshall, by whom he had several 
 children ; and he was succeeded at his death, 1722, by his eldest son — 
 
 III. Sir John Lauder, 3rd baronet; who, 'in 1696, married Margaret, 
 daughter of Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, bart., a senator of the College of Justice 
 by the title of Lord Pitmedden. By her he had his eldest son and successor — 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 IV. Sib Alexander Lauder, 4th baronet, who, dying unmarried in 173Q, 
 the title and estate devolved on his brother — 
 
 V. Sir Andrew Lauder, 5th baronet, who married his cousin Isobel, 
 only child and heiress of William Dick, Esq., of Grange, by whom (who was in a 
 direct descent from the Royal House of Plantagenet) he had three sons ; and at his 
 death he was succeeded by the 3rd and only surviving son — 
 
 VI. Sir Andrew Lauder, 6th bart. of Fountainhall and the 1st Dick 
 of Grange. This gentleman married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Broun, Esq., of 
 Jolmstonburn ; and dying in 1820, was succeeded by his only son — 
 
 VII. Sir Thomas Digk-Lauder, born in 1784, married in 1808 Charles- 
 Anne, only child and heiress of George Cumin, Esq., of Relugas, by whom he had 
 two sons and ten daughters (three of whom died in infancy). Sir Thomas, who was 
 the lineal male representative of the families of lauder tower and bass, 
 and, through a female, of dick of Braid and Grange, d. 29th May, 1848, and was 
 succeeded by his elder son — ■ 
 
 VIII. Sir John Diok-Lauder, who was born in 1813, and married, 22nd 
 May, 1845, Lady Anne Dalrymple, 2nd daughter of North, 9th earl of Stair, and had 
 issue, four sons and three daughters. Sir John, who served for twelve years in the 
 E.I. Company's Bengal army, and who was a deputy lieut. of Mid-Lothian, died, 23rd 
 March, 1867, and was succeeded by his eldest son — 
 
 IX. Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder, the 9th and present baronet. 
 Creation, 1688. — Burkestates in his Order of Precedence (Baronetcies) that this 
 
 baronage ranks No. 224 in a total of 861. 
 
 NO. III. 
 
 From "System of Heraldry,'' Alexander Nisbet, 2 vols., London, 1816. 
 
 Vol. I., p. 8^3. — The Griffin. — A chimerical creature, half an eagle and half a 
 lion, with large ears, frequent in arms, especially with the Germans. Those who have 
 been, or are vassals and dependents, and carry a lion for their proper arms, whose over- 
 lords and patrons carried eagles, do frequently carry this creature as composed of both. 
 Some say the griffin is the symbol of ecclesiastical and civil authority joined together ; 
 the first shewn by the fore-part of the eagle, and the civil power by the hinder part 
 of the lion. Others say the griffin, by its fore-parts, represents wisdom joined to 
 fortitude, which should follow wisdom, as Chassaneus; " Gryphus significat sapientiam 
 jungendam fortitudine, sed sapientiam debere preeire, fortitudinem sequi." Its proper 
 posture in armories is to be rampant or salient, and then sometimes said to be 
 segreant, by the English, that is, as if he were ready to flee. Those of the name of 
 lawider, or lauder, or lauther, which is differently wrote, according to the 
 Customs of ancient times, and the different apprehensions of the writers, for the 
 
APPENDIX. vn 
 
 name is local from the town and lands of Lauder, i.e., lower than the hills that 
 surround it, of which they have heen ancient possessors, carried a griffin for their 
 armorial figure, and were designed Lauders of that Ilk, or of Lauder- Tower. One of 
 the family accompanied David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of King William the 
 Lion, to the Holy War ; to perpetuate which, some of his descendants made the 
 griffin to hold a sword by his fore foot, supporting a Saracen's head, proper ; of whom 
 was descended Allan Lauder, who gets a charter of the lands of Whitslade and 
 Moriston in the shire of Berwick, from Kobert, Earl of Strathern, with the consent 
 of John his eldest son and heir, both afterwards kings, by the names of Robert II. 
 and III. This Allan Lauder was afterwards designed of Hatton, as in a charter 
 granted by King Robert II. of the lands of Ratho, in the shire of Mid-Lothian, anno 
 regni 7 mo -< of whom were descended the Lauders of Hatton, who carried argent, a 
 griffin salient sable, beaked and membred gules, holding a sword with its fore foot, 
 supporting a Saracen's head, proper; crest, a tower with a demi-griffin issuing out of 
 the top of it : motto, Strike alike. This family ended in an heir-female, in the reign 
 of King Charles II., who was married to Mr. Charles Maitland, brother-german to the 
 Duke of Lauderdale. He was afterwards Earl of Lauderdale, grandfather to the 
 present Earl of Lauderdale. 
 
 Lauder of Bass, originally from Lauder of that Ilk, carried gules, a lion 
 rampant argent, with a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered with flower-de- 
 luces or ; crest, a solan-goose sitting on a rock, proper : motto, Sub umbra alarum 
 tuarum. Pont's and Workman's Manuscripts, where these arms are supported with 
 two lions. 
 
 Robert Lauder gets a charter from William de Lamberton, Bishop of St. 
 Andrews, of the half of the Isle of Bass, reddendo unam libram cerai nomini Albas 
 firmw, which is confirmed by the charter of John Forfar, Prior to St. Andrews, of 
 the date the 4th of June, 1316. 
 
 In a charter of Richard Edgar to Robert Edgar of Wedderlie, amongst the 
 witnesses are, Johannes Haliburton Dominus de Dirleton, and Robertus Laivider, 
 Dominus de la Bass, in the year 1384. 
 
 Sir Robert Lauder, upon his resignation of the lands of Balgone and Bass, 
 and Edrington in the shire of Berwick, gets a new charter of these lands from King 
 James I. This family is now extinct. 
 
 The only principal family of the name now standing is tbat of Sir John 
 Lauder, of Fountainhall, in East-Lothian, Baronet, and one of the Senators of the 
 College of Justice, who carries gules, a griffin rampant within a bordure argent; 
 crest, a tower argent, masoned sable, with the portcullis down, on the top of the 
 embattlement, a man is in a watching posture : motto, Turris prudentia custos; 
 supporters, two lions rampant argent, standing on a compartment, on which are these 
 words, TJt migraturus habita, as in Plate of Achievements. So recorded in the Lyon 
 Register, as descended of Lauder of that Ilk, the above arms being conform to those 
 of his progenitors, cut upon grave-stones of old dates, which are preserved by the said 
 Sir John, who is lineally descended of Andrew Lauder, a son of Robert Lauder of 
 that Ilk, and Lauder-Tower, and his wife Elizabeth Ballenden, daughter to Ballenden 
 of Lasswade, by whom he bad three sons ; the two eldest were cut off, with many of 
 their relations, in a plea, by the Homes and Cranstons, in the minority of King 
 James VI., but the youngest surviving son, Andrew, retired to his mother's friends. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 He married Janet, daughter of David Eamsay of Polton, descended of the family of 
 Dalhousie ; of them was descended Sir John Lauder of Newington, Baronet, whose 
 eldest son is the above-mentioned Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall. 
 
 Vol I, p. £32. — Lauder of Bass carried gules, a griffin salient, within a double 
 treasure counter-flowered argent; crest, a solan-goose sitting on a rock, proper: 
 motto, Sub umbra alarum tuarum; by some books supported by two lions: but upon 
 an old stone in the church of North-Berwick, the above arms are supported with two 
 angels, proper, as in Plate of Achievements; And also, in the aisle of the lairds of 
 Bass, in the old church of North-Berwick, where they were interred, there is a tomb- 
 stone, whereupon are cut, in Saxon letters, these words: Hie jacet Bus (i.e. bonus) 
 Robertus Lauder mns (i.e. magnus) Dus ( Dominus) de Congleton et le Bass, qui obiit 
 raense Maii; some read mcccxi, and others read mocccxi. 
 
 This family continued in a lineal descent till the reign of King Charles I. I 
 said before, page 344, that the family was extinct; but upon better information, I 
 find the nearest branch is Lauder of Beilmouth, now representer of the family of 
 Bass, as appears by several certificates under the hands of several gentlemen of 
 probity, that Bobert Lauder, a younger son of Sir Robert Lauder of Bass, got from 
 his father part of the lands of Beilhaven and West-Barns; and Robert was succeeded 
 by his son Maurice in these lands, which Maurice was the father of Alexander 
 Lauder. I have seen a charter of these lands granted by King James VI., of the 
 date 1594, to the said Alexander Lauder, and his eldest son George: Which George 
 Lauder grants a disposition and charter. in the year 1666, of the lands of Beilhaven 
 and West-Barns, to his eldest son Robert, procreate betwixt him and his wife 
 Elizabeth Lauder: Which Robert grants a charter to his eldest son, Mr Robert 
 Lauder, procreate betwixt him and his wife Mary, daughter of Patrick Douglas of 
 Staodingstone, in the year 1672. Mr Robert, afterwards Sir Robert Lauder, 
 designed of Beilmouth, father of Archibald, father of the present Robert Lauder of 
 Beilmouth, the eighth person of the family in a lineal descent. 
 
 I did see the above evidents in Robert's custody, whose great-grandfather 
 recorded his armorial bearing in the Lyon Register thus: 
 
 " Robert Lauder, Portioner of Beilhaven and West-Barns, descended of the 
 " family of the Bass, bears gides, a griffin salient, within a double tressure flowered 
 "and counter-flowered argent, the same with Bass; and charges the breast of the 
 "griffin with a heart ensigned with an imperial crown, all proper, for his difference, 
 " upon account his wife was a Douglas; crest, the trunk of an old tree budding, 
 " proper : motto, Repulhdat." 
 
 (Vol. II.), Nisbet — Appendix, p. 87. — Historical and Critical Remarks on the 
 Ragman Roll. 
 
 Henry de Laudere, i.e., Lauder. After this we find Robertus de Lawder pater, 
 and Robertus de Lawder filius, who was Justiciary under King David II. As his 
 heir and successor Sir Robert Lawder de Ednngton, Dominus de le Bass, was 
 Justi&iariiis Laudoniae in the. reign of King James I. Lauder of Hatton appears to be 
 come of them in the days of Robert II. . . . 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. IV. 
 
 From "Scottish Arms," R. R. Stodart, Edin., 1881. Vol. II., p. 174, 
 
 Lauder of Haltoun, L. ; there is added a crest, a tower, with the motto, " Vivit 
 postfunera virtus." Afterwards the griffin in the arms was borne holding a sword 
 in its fore paw, supporting a saracen's head proper; crest — a demi-grifnn issuing from 
 a tower ; motto — " Strike alike." 
 
 Alan Lauder possessed Hatton, in the county of Edinburgh, early in the reign 
 of Robert II. ; the laird sat in parliament 1471, and subsequently. Mr. Richard, 
 last of Hatton, who died 1675, having no male issue, settled that barony and other 
 lands, all denovo erected into a free barony 1660, on his younger daughter, Elizabeth, 
 and her husband, Hon. Charles Maitland, afterwards Earl of Lauderdale, they and 
 their successors being bound to take the surname and carry the arms of Lauder of 
 Hatton. The elder daughter, Jean, married in 1650 Sir Thomas Eljshinstone of 
 Calderhall, and left issue. 
 
 The printed pedigrees of the Landers are very misleading. 
 
 In the remarks on the Eagman Eoll in Nisbet's Heraldry, Henry de Laudere is 
 said to have taken the oaths, but this is not so ; the name is Henry de Larder. 
 
 This name is taken from Lauder in Berwickshire, and a family long remained 
 there with the designation of Lauder of that Ilk ; Eobert, last of the direct line, was 
 dead in 1658, leaving an only child, Isobel Lauder of that Ilk, wife of Alexander 
 Home, bailie of Lauder ; in 1683 she was dead, leaving three daughters, among whom 
 the Lauder property was divided. 
 
 William, called "of the Dails," burgess of Lauder, living in 1577, had a charter 
 of some lands in 1542, from Eobert Lauder of the Bass, who styles him diledus 
 consanguineus, and was ancestor of John Lauder of Newington, merchant in 
 Edinburgh, who, as " descended of the old family of Lauder of that Ilk," registered 
 arms 1672-78 — gules, a griffin salient argent, in dexter canton a tower or; crest — a 
 balance equilibriated or ; motto — " Mediocria firrna." He acquired Fountainhall 
 1681, which was erected into a barony the next year, and was created a baronet. In 
 1699 his son, Sir John, a senator of the College of Justice, had a patent of arms 
 with two lions argent as supporters ; on the coat the tower was omitted, and a bordure 
 argent substituted as a mark of difference. The crest and motto were also altered. 
 
 The griffin segreant appears on very old seals, and in 1425 Sir Robert of the 
 Bass bore the Royal tressure with the lions as supporters. 
 
 Sir Eobert was justiciary in the reign of Eobert I. ; Alexander, Bishop of 
 Dunkeld, died 1411 ; Thomas, Bishop of Dunkeld, died 1481 ; William was Bishop 
 of Glasgow and Chancellor of Scotland, and died 1425 ; Eobert was Bishop of Dun- 
 blane 1447 ; and George, Bishop of Argylo 1427-62. 
 
 Mr Henry Lauder of St Germains, King's Advocate and Senator of the 
 College of Justice, who died in 1561, was son of Gilbert, an Edinburgh burgess. 
 
 The Lauders of the Bass long held that rocky island and great estates in East- 
 Lothian, including Tynynghame, Balgone, Pencaitland, &c. They seem to have' 
 been in financial difficulties early in the seventeenth century, and parted with most 
 of their property ; a branch retained Bielmouth. Sir Eobert of that place was 
 knighted, and Robert of Bielmouth, who died there 1768, seems to have been the 
 last of hie line, 
 
 B 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 From 1471 till 1600 the barons of Bass sat in almost every parliament. 
 Alexander, Provost of Edinburgh, sat in parliament 1503-5. 
 Vol. II, p. %58. 135. Lauder of ye Bass. L. ; supporter added on the 
 sinister side a lion sejant gardant. 
 
 These extracts are from Part VI., entitled " Workman's Illuminated Heraldic Manuscript, 
 c, a.d. 1565-6." 
 
 NO. V. 
 
 From " The Science of Herauldry." Sir George Mackenzie, Edin., 1680. 
 
 Lawder op Halton. — Argent, a Gryphon Salient sable winged, becked and 
 armed Gules. 
 
 Lawder op Bass. — Gules, a Gryphon salient within a tressure counterflowered 
 argent. 
 
 An Orle is a little Bordur, but both the one and the other are given to recom- 
 pense such as have given protection and defence : For the Bordur defends what is 
 within it, and therefore Scotland got the Orle Flower deluc'd from the French, to 
 
 recompense the assistance the French got from the Scots in all the Wars 
 
 The Orle is an inward Bordur, and the Tressure is the diminutive of the Orle, and 
 where there are two of these, as in the Arms of Scotland, it is called a double 
 tressure — Uenia gemella. 
 
 NO. VI. 
 
 From BurMs " General Armory," London, 1878. 
 
 Lauder (Bass, Scotland). — Gu., a griffin segreant within a double tressure 
 flowered and counter-flowered ar. Crest — A solan goose sitting on a rock ppr. 
 Motto. — Sub umbra alarum tuarum. Supporters — Two angels, ppr. 
 
 Lauder (Belhaven and Westbames ; descended from Lauder, of Bass). — 
 Anns, the same as of Bass, charging the griffin's breast with a heart ensigned with 
 an imperial crown all ppr. for diff. Crest — The trunk of an old tree budding ppr 
 Motto— Eepullulat. 
 
 Lauder (Hatton, Scotland). — Ar., a griffin segreant sa. 
 _ Lauder (Newington, ancestor of Fountainhall, 1672). — Gu., a griffin segreant 
 
 sa. in the dexter canton a tower or. Crest — A balance equilibriated or. Motto 
 
 Mediocria firma. 
 
 Lauder (now Dick- Lauder, Fountainhall, co. Haddington, bart., 1688. 
 Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gu., a griffin segreant within a bordure ar. for Lauder; 2nd 
 
 and 3rd, ar. a fess wavy az. betw. three mullets gu., for Dick. Crests For 
 
 Lauder: a tower embattled ar., massoned sa. thereon a man in a watching posturei , 
 
APPENDIX. xi 
 
 full-faced, his head and shoulders only appearing ppr. ; for Dick : A stag's head erased 
 ppr., attired or. Supporters — Two lions ar. Mottoes — For Lauder: Turris prudentia 
 custos ; for Dick : Virtute. 
 
 Lauder (Winepark, Scotland, 1745). — Gu., a griffin segreant ar. within a 
 bordure of the last charged with four hearts ensigned with imperial crowns ppr., and 
 as many crescents gu. Crest — A dextor hand holding a scymitar, and on the point 
 thereof a Saracen's head all ppr. 
 
 NO. VII. 
 
 From " Analeda Scotica," Edin., 1834. 
 
 Genealogy of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Knight and Baronet, one of the 
 Senators of the College of Justice. (From Nisbet's MS. Genealogical Collections). 
 
 Arms— Gules, a griffan rampant argent, armed and langued of the first, within 
 a border of the second, and the badge of Nova Scotia in the dexter chief point: — For 
 crest, a tour argent, portcullis down and massoned, sable, on the embattlement a man 
 hi a watching posture, above all on an escroll, for motto, Turris pendentis custos : 
 Supporters, two lions rampant, argent, standing on a compartment with the words, 
 ut migraturus habita. 
 
 His predecessor was Robert Lauder of that ilk, son of . . . Lauder of that 
 ilk, and . . . Macdougal, his lady, daughter to the Laird of Mackairstone, in 
 Teviotdale, descended of a younger brother of the old Lauders of Lauder, for which 
 they carried the foresaid border as a mark of cadencie on their seals, tombs, and 
 monuments (now matriculat in the Lord Lyon's books) in the town of Lauder, where 
 they always dwelt till of late. Robert Lauder of that ilk, had with his lady, 
 Elizabeth Ballanden, daughter to Ballanden Laird of Leswaid, three sons, . . . 
 Mr. William and Andrew. 
 
 The eldest son's issue are extinct. Mr. William, the second son, was killed by 
 the Homes and the Cranstons, with several others of his kindred, when they brant the 
 tour of Lawder, 1598. 
 
 Andrew Lauder, the 3rd son of Robert of that ilk, to shun any farder blood, he 
 retired to his mother's friends hi Leswaid, and lived in Melvin Milne, in Leswaid 
 parish, and married Janet Ramsay, daughter to David Ramsay of Polton in the same 
 parish, a cadet of the familie of Dalhoussie, and with her had only one son, John. 
 To his second wife, he married Isobell Borthvvick, daughter to the Laird of John- 
 stonburn or Soutrie, and with her had issue. 
 
 John Lauder, the eldest son of Andrew Lauder, was a merchant* in Edinburgh, 
 
 * In Scotland "merchant" used to be applied to dealers of every description — a grocer was 
 a merchant — so was a haberdasher. More recently the word has been restored to its proper 
 meaning, viz. , a wholesale trader. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 and thereafter one of the baillies in the toun, and was made knight and baronet. 
 He married to his first wife Margrat Spire with whom he had a daughter, Margrat 
 married to Collin Camble of Blisewood. 
 
 To his second, Isobell Eleis, daughter of Mr. Alexander Eleis of Mortonhall, and 
 Margaret Uthward (commonlie called Edward), daughter to Nicol Uthward, Dean of 
 Gild of Edinburgh, whose father was Provost thereof, 1592. The said Mr. 
 Alexander Eleis was a sone of Patrick Eleis of Stanhopmilnes, and his spouse. Isobel 
 Seton, daughter to John Seton of Parbroath, and Margaret Nisbet, daughter to Adam 
 Nisbet, merchant to Queen Mary of Lorraine (the Laird of Dean's predecessor), 
 procreat by the said Adam upon Beatrix Ambrosia, daughter to Monsieur Ambrose, 
 an Italian, who cam to Scotland with the said Queen, mother to Queen Mary, and 
 served her in the qualitie of Secretarie ; and the said Adam Nisbet's mother was 
 Marrian Inglis, daughter to James Inglis, merchant in Edinburgh, and predecessor to 
 the present Laird of Nether Cianiond ; and X Adam] Nisbet's grandmother was a 
 dochter of Eleis of Stanhopmilnes. 
 
 NO. VIII. 
 
 From Douglas's " Baronage," 1798. 
 
 In 1541 William Foulis of the Colinton family got a charter of Bonnytoun, 
 Linlithgow : in it is mentioned the name Helen Lauder, wife of the said William 
 Foulis. In 1610 Sir James Eoulis of Colinton — great grand-nephew of the preceding, 
 had a charter of the lands of Craig-Lockhart. This gentleman married Mary, 
 daughter of Sir John Lauder op Halton. 
 
 About 1630, mention is made of the marriage of a daughter of Scott of Millenie, 
 to Lauder op Hatton. The Scotts of Millenie are cadets of Buccleuch. 
 
 On 3rd April, 1548, Sir William Scott of Balweary got a charter of the lands of 
 Invertiel in Fife. He married Helen, daughter of Sir William Lauder of Hatton. 
 In 1475 took place the marriage of John Swinton of that Ilk, with Katherine 
 Lauder, daughter of Lauder of Bass. 
 
 In 1552 Sir John Swinton, grandson of the preceding, married his cousin 
 Katherine Lauder, daughter of Bobert Lauder of Bass. 
 
 Sir Alexr. Seton, 1st bart. of Pitmedden, and a Lord of Session by the title of 
 Lord Pitmedden, who died in 1719, was married to Margaret Lauder, daughter of 
 William Lauder, Clerk of Session : their second daughter Margaret married Sir 
 John Lauder of Fountainhall, the third baronet of the descent. About 1709, 
 Thomas Scott of Millenie, married Isabel Lauder, a daughter of Sir John Lauder, 
 Bart. (Lord Fountainhall). 
 
 Isabel Dick, heiress of Grange about 1750, married her cousin-german Sir 
 Andrew Lauder of Fountainhall, baronet. 
 
APPENDIX. xiii 
 
 NO. IX. 
 
 From Douglas's " Peerage," Edin., 1813. 
 
 Preston. Lord Dingwall. — XI. David Preston of Craigmiller, son and heir- 
 apparent of Sir Simon Preston of Preston, knight, married while under age Elisabeth, 
 daughter of Robert Lauder of Bass, as appears from a charter to them of the barony 
 of Prestoun, lying on the river Esk, in the county of Edinburgh. He died in March 
 1593. 
 
 Home. Earl of Home. — IX. Sir Alexander Home of Home died in 1456, having 
 married Mariota, daughter of Sir Eobert Lauder of Bass, by whom he had issue : — ■ 
 1, Sir Alexander; 2, George; 3, John; 4, Patrick; 5, Nicholas. 
 
 Ogilvy. Lord Banff. — VII. George, second Lord Banff, had issue. ... 3. 
 Hon. Helen Ogilvy, married 25th April 1694, to Sir Eobert Lauder of Bielmouth. 
 IX. George, fourth Lord Banff, baptised at Banff 4th Aug. 1670, succeeded his 
 father 1713, and died 1718. He married 11th January 1712, Helen, daughter of 
 Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., a Lord of Session, and by her, who died 
 22 October 1743, had two sons : 
 
 1 John ■George, fifth Lord Banff. 
 
 2 Alexander, sixth Lord Banff. 
 
 Campbell. Duke of Argyle. — IX. Sir Colin Campbell of Lochow married a 
 daughter of the house of Lennox, and by her had three sons and a daughter, Alicia 
 married to Alan Lauder of Hatton. King Eobert II., 13th June 1371, confirmed 
 to them two carucates of land in Norton, in the county of Edinburgh, given when 
 he was steward of Scotland. 
 
 Douglas. Duke of Douglas. — IX. It is said that Archibald, fourth Earl of 
 Douglas, who had the popular appellation of Tyne-man, on account of his losing 
 many in battles, had two more daughters : Lady Helen, married to Alexander Lauder 
 of Hatton, and Lady Mary, married to Sir Simon Glendonwyn of Glendonwyn. (This 
 Earl was killed at Verneuil in Normandy, 17th August, 1424). 
 
 Forrester. Lord Forrester. — II. The second Sir John Forrester had two 
 daughters, the youngest of whom, Elisabeth, was married to Sir Alexander de Lauder 
 of Hatton, knight, as appears from a charter of Eobert, Duke of Albany, to Alexander 
 de Lauder, and Elisabeth Forrester his wife, daughter of Sir John Forrester of 
 Corstorphin, knight, of the lands of Plat, Westhall, and Northraw, in the barony of 
 Eathow, dated 7th December, 1408. VIII. James Forrester of Corstorphin married 
 Janet, daiv°hter of Lauder of Hatton. He had a charter to him and Janet Lauder 
 his wife, of the lands of West Craigs of Corstorphin, and of Clerkingtoun, 5th 
 February, 1555-6. 
 
 Cunningham. Earl of Glencairn. — XIX. James, seventh Earl of Glencairn, 
 married Mariot or Margaret, second daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurchy, 
 and by her, who died in 1610, had issue. ... 6. Lady Susanna, married to 
 Sir Alexander Lauder of Hatton. 
 
 Home. Earl of Marchmont. — IV. Alexander Home of Polwarth married, 
 secondly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Eobert Lauder of Bass, by whom he had three 
 daughters. (Alexander Home died in 1532). 
 
 Hay. Marquis of Tweeddale. — XII. John Hay of Tester had a daughter, Isobel, 
 married to Eobert Lauder of Bass; Crawford refers to a charter 1496 (Crawf. Peer., 
 
xiv APPENDIX. 
 
 4-85). XVI. William, fifth Lord Hay of Tester, had a daughter Margaret, married 
 first in 1582 to James, seventh Lord Borthwick ; secondly to Sir Robert Lauder of 
 Popil, knight, son of Sir Robert Lauder of Bass. This Margaret had a son John, 
 eighth Lord Borthwick. 
 
 Maitland. Earl of Lauderdale. — XV. Charles, third Earl of Lauderdale, married 
 at Hatton, 18th November 1652, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Richard 
 Lauder of Hatton, in the county of Edinburgh, with whom he got Hatton, Over- 
 gogar, Norton and Platts, and by her had issue, Richard, fourth Earl of Lauderdale, 
 John, fifth Earl of Lauderdale, and other six children. 
 
 Napier. Lord Napier. — VI. Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston, who died 
 betwixt 24th Oct. 1473 and 15th Feby. 1473-4, married Elisabeth Lauder, probably 
 a daughter of the Laird of Hatton. 
 
 NO. X. 
 
 From Keith's "Scottish Bishops," Edin., 182£. 
 
 Dunkeld. Alexander Lauder, 1440.] Alexander Lauder, Rector of Ratho, son of 
 Sir Allan Lauder of Haltown, and brother-german to Bishop Lauder of Glasgow, was 
 promoted to this see in the month of May, 1440, and died on the 11th October there- 
 after at Edinburgh, and was interred at the church of Lauder with his ancestors. 
 
 Aegyle. George Lauder, 1427.] George Lauder or Lawater of Balcomy, in vie. de 
 Fife, was probably immediate successor to Bishop Finlay, who fled to Ireland in 1425, 
 and died there soon after. Mr. Lauder being bred to the church, was vicar of Crail in 
 anno 1425, and was afterwards master, or preceptor of the hospital of St. Leonards, 
 " prope villam de Peebles." He was promoted to the bishopric of Argyle as early 
 at least as 1427. For, on the 25th of July that year, King James I. gave to David 
 Reat, his confessor, " vicario ordinis praedicatorum," the preceptory of the said 
 hospital, then vacant by the promotion of Mr. George Lauder to the bishopric of 
 Argyle. He was also bishop of this see anno 1444, when, with the consent of Patrick 
 Lavater, his brother and heir of tailzie, he gives to the prior of St. Andrews liberty 
 to dig stones out of his quarry at Balcomy, for repairing that convent : George is 
 "episcopus Lismoren." anno 1449, and annis 1442, 1452, 1453 and anno 1462. 
 
 Dunblane. Robert Lauder, 1448.] Robert, (surnamed Lauder by Archbishop 
 Spotiswood) succeeded Bishop Ochiltree ; but at what precise time he was promoted to 
 the see of Dunblane is not clear. He is bishop here anno 1449, and in the year 1451 he 
 was sent jointly with the bishops of Glasgow and Moray into England. This prelate is 
 likewise in a like commission: — "Robertas episcopus Dunblanensis"; amongst several 
 others, obtains letters of safe-conduct from King Henry VI. of England, dated April 
 22, 1449, and he was one of the ambassadors appointed by the King of Scotland to 
 the English monarch 3rd November that same year. And 22nd January 1452, amongst 
 others, he obtains letters of safe-conduct when they went on a pilgrimage to Canter- 
 bury (24th Sept. 1451). Robert is bishop here 1452, also anno 1456. Robert is 
 likewise bishop of Dunblane anno 1465. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 ^ Dunkeld. Thomas Lauder, 1452.] Thomas Lauder, preceptor or master of Soltray, 
 al. Soutray,* and tutor to King James II., was next preferred to this see, and exercised 
 his functions very laboriously, until the year 147 G, when being unable any longer to 
 endure the fatigue, by reason of his advanced age (for it was said that he was no less 
 than 60 years old when ho had charge of the king's education), he resigned the see 
 of Dunkeld in favour of James Livingston the dean. This act of this bishop gives 
 clear light to the title of a charter in the Eegister, B. 9, No. 50, p. 56, viz. :— " Carta 
 confirmationis super cartarn per Thomam olim episcopum Dunkelden. et nunc 
 episcopum in universali ecclesia, 13 Martii 1480, factam." He was " Magister 
 domus hospitalis de Soltra" anno 4to Jac. II. Thomas is bishop here anno 1455. 
 He is bishop anno 1456, item anno 1462, likeways anno 1455, 1458, 1472 et 1473. 
 Thomas and James are both bishops of this see, anno 1478. This bishop built a 
 bridge over the river Tay near to his own palace : He obtained an erection of the 
 bishop's lands on the north side of that river into one barony, called the barony of 
 Dunkeld, as likewise of those on the south side to be called the barony of Aberlady ; he 
 founded several chaplainries and prebends, partly in Edinburgh and partly in Dun- 
 keld ; and purchased two lodgings, one in Edinburgh, another in Perth, for himself 
 and his successors. He died on the 4th November 1481. 
 
 Glasgow. William Lauder, 1408.] William Lauder, son to Sir Allan Lauder of 
 Haltoun (vulgo Hatton), in the shire of Midlothian, was first archdeacon of Lothian. 
 In the year 1405, there is a safe-conduct from the king of England, "Magistro 
 Gulielmo Lauder archidiacono Laudoniae, veniendo in regnum Angliae, penes 
 praesen tiara regis pro quibusdam negotiis expediendis." When the see of Glasgow 
 became vacant, anno 1408, he was preferred merely by the provision of Pope 
 Benedict XIII. , who set up for Pope at Avignon, in opposition to Gregory XII. at 
 Rome, and not by the election of the chapter. He was bishop here in the year 1411. 
 He was bishop 1417. Murdo, duke of Albany, regent of the kingdom, made him 
 lord chancellor anno 1423, in the room of the bishop of Aberdeen; and the same 
 year, the 9th of August, he was nominated first commissioner for treating about the 
 redemption of King JamesL, which was at last effectuated the next year, 1424. Accord- 
 ingly he is bishop and chancellor 1423 and 1424, and he continued in that office 
 until his death ; for he was bishop here and lord chancellor the 14th day of April, in 
 the 20th year of King James I., and William de Lauder, bishop, was dead, and the 
 see vacant, May 19, anno 1426. This bishop laid the foundation of the vestry of the 
 cathedral church, and built the great steeple of stone, as far as the first battlement, 
 where the arms of Lauder of Hatton are still to be seen out in stone in several places. 
 Bishop Lauder died June 14, 1425. 
 
 * This hospital, or religious house, was seated among the hills called Souta, which lie 
 hetween East-Lothian and the Merse or shire of Berwick. I have found him designed (says 
 Macfarlane) "Magister Thomas Lauder, magister de Soltre," 26th Feb. 1439. He obtained letters 
 of legitimation under the great seal, dated 20th February, 1472, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XL 
 
 " Origines Parochiales Scotice," Vol I., p. 1, Edin., 1851. 
 
 The 7tli day of July 1136, is the date of the consecration of the Cathedral 
 church of Glasgow, built by John, the first bishop, after the restoration of the 
 bishoprick by King David I. It was rebuilt by his successor Herbert, and re-conse- 
 crated in 1197 by Jocelin, with two assisting bishops. Bishop Eondington, who 
 died in 1258, is said to have completed the cathedral as planned by Herbert and 
 Jocelin. Bishop Robert Wishart had obtained timber from King Edward I. for 
 making a steeple, but used it for constructing engines against that king's castles. 
 The steeple was built of stone, as it now stands, by Bishop Lauder, who died in 
 1425. He added the battlements to the tower, built previously, and made the crypt 
 under the chapterhouse. Bishop Cameron, who died in 1447, built the chapter- 
 house. The crypt of an intended southern transept, the beautiful rood-loft and 
 decorated stairs were the work of Bishop Blacader, who died in 1508. The cathe- 
 dral was never completed. 
 
 Note. — On "Portion of the Ancient Parochial Map of Scotland," annexed to vol. I., Lauder 
 is shown as lauueder on the river leder. 
 
 NO. XII. 
 
 Abridged from "Fasti Ecdesia Scoticance," Rev. Hero Scott, Edin., 1867. 
 
 THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 Cockburnspath Parish — Presbytery of Dunbar. 
 
 In 1610, the Rev. John Lauder was minister — removed from Auldcamus ; died 
 before 22nd May, 1627. 
 
 Stenton Parish — Presbytery of Dunbar. 
 
 In 1593, the Rev. James Lawder, A.M., was minister, laureated at Univ. of 
 Edin., 1591, continued in 1597. 
 
 Whitekirk Parish — Presbytery of Dunbar. 
 
 In 1639, the Rev. Robert Lauder, A.M., was minister, laureated at Univ. of 
 Edin., 26th July, 1623; demitted, 1673; re-admitted and collated as conjunct 
 minister, 23rd Oct., 1673, his son being his colleague and successor. Had two sons, 
 George his successor to the benefice, and Alex, nominated bursar to the Presbytery. 
 4th March, 1684. 
 
 Whitekirk Parish — Presbytery of Dunbar. 
 
 In 1674, the Rev. George Lauder, A.M., son of the preceding, admitted 
 minister. Licensed, 7th July, 1671; presented, 23rd Oct, 1673; ordained, 8th 
 April, 1674 ; demitted after the Revolution in 1688 ; married, 27th July, 1683, Janet 
 Loch, 
 
APPENDIX. xvii 
 
 Tyningham Parish — Presbytery of Dunbar (now united to Wbitekirk). 
 
 In 1628, tbe Eev. John Lauder, A.M., was minister, laureated at Univ. of 
 Edinburgh, 1609 ; member of assembly, 1638, 1643, 1644, 1648; died, 29th April, 
 1662, aged 73. A son, Alexander, died before 20th May, 1663. 
 
 Eccles Parish — Presbytery of Dunse. 
 
 In 1691, the Eev. John Lauder was minister — this appears to have been a 
 disputed settlement; died in July, 1729, in 39th of his ministry; married Margaret 
 Borthwick, and had a daughter Margaret who married Mark Sandilands of Edinbuigh. 
 
 Mordington Parish. — Presbytery of Chirnside, Berwick. 
 
 In 1695, the Kev. Alexander Lauder, AM., was minister, born 1667, took his 
 degree at the Univ. of Edin., 2nd July, 1684. Ordained 29th Oct., 1695, and died 
 at Edin., 27th June, 1719 : he was author of one of the best written defences 
 of Presbytery then extant (1707). 
 
 Lauder Parish. — Presbytery of Earlston, now Lauder. 
 
 In 1584, the Eev. Alexander Laudf,r was minister, had his degree at Univ. of 
 St. Andrews, 1581. He had a son Andrew and a daughter Elizabeth. 
 
 Whithorn Parish. — Presbytery of Wigton. 
 
 In 1638, the Eev. Andrew Lauder, A.M., was minister, had his degree at the 
 Univ. of Edin., 22nd June, 1633; was a member of assembly in 1638,-1645, 1646, 
 1647 and 1648. Called to Ayr in latter year, but declined. 
 
 Dalziel Parish — Presbytery of Hamilton. 
 
 In 1659, the Eev. John Lauder was admitted minister — deprived on Establish- 
 ment of Episcopacy, 1st Oct., 1662. Indulged and re-admitted to the parish in 1670 ; 
 again deprived by the Privy Council, 1684; again admitted, 1687; translated to 
 West Calder, Presbytery of Linlithgow, in 1690; died, 1691, in 32nd year of his 
 ministry. He had issue, Isabel, David, and John. 
 
 Aberdalgie Parish — Presbytery of Perth. 
 
 In 1668, the Eev. David Lauder, A.M., was minister, took his degree at St. 
 Andrews University, 1662, translated to Inverkeithing parish, Presbytery of Dun- 
 fermline, 1676; died, Nov., 1681, aged 40, in the 14th of his ministry. — Lillias 
 Grahame, widow. 
 
 Forgandennt Parish — Presbytery of Perth. 
 
 In 1567, the Eev. William Lauder was minister, died at Candlemas, 1572 ; 
 author of a "Tractate concerning the Office and Dewtie of Kyngis, Spiritual 
 Pastouris and Temporal Jugis," published (in verse) in 1556, 4to. 
 
 Logiebride Parish — Presbytery of Dunkeld, now united to Auchtergaven. 
 
 In 1569, tbe Eev. James Lauder was minister (previously he was Exhorter). 
 His stipend in 1574 was £3 6s. 8d. 
 
 Knockbain Parish (formerly Kilmuir Wester) — Presbytery of Chanonry. 
 
 In 1595, the Eev. James Lauder, A.M., was minister. He obtained his degree 
 at the University of Edinburgh, 12th Aug., 1592, and was translated to — 
 
 Ardersier Parish, Presbytery of Nairn, 1597, and to — 
 
 Avoch Parish, Presbytery of Chanonry, in 1607. He demitted the benefice in 
 favour of his son in 1642, but is still mentioned 4th Dec, 1655. 
 
 Avooh Parish — Presbytery of Chanonry. 
 
 In 1642, the Eev. William Lauder, A.M., eldest son of the preceding, was 
 minister. Laureated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1632. Presented by Charles I., and 
 
tviii APPENDIX. 
 
 was alive in 1688. Married the eldest daughter of Murdoch Mackenzie, Chamherlain 
 of Lewis, author of Elogia 37 and 38 (Forbes's Fun. Serm.). 
 
 Fetlar and North Yell — Presbytery of Burravoe (Shetland). 
 
 In 1567, the Eev. William Lauder was minister. His stipend was £i 8s. lOd. ; 
 removed to Hamnavoe, 1585. 
 
 Fetlar and North Yell Parish — Presbytery of Burravoe (Shetland). 
 
 In 1595, the Eev. James Lauder, apparently son of the preceding, was minister, 
 in 1596 be was removed to — 
 
 Yell, in the same presbytery. 
 
 Dun Parish — Presbytery of Brechin. 
 
 In 1752 (22nd Nov.), the Eev. James Lauder was presented to this parish by 
 the Hon. David Erskine, one of the Lords of Session. He was born at Mellville 
 Mill, Lasswade, in 1706. Licensed, 31st Oct., 1744, and died 10th April, 1802, 
 aged 96, in the 49th of his ministry. He was a person of slender habit, genteel 
 address, temperate and regular in every respect, fond of air and exercise, remarkable 
 for smoking tobacco, with his memory and judgment good to the last, while he 
 uniformly supported the character of a Christian and a gentleman. He married, 
 9th Nov., 1771, Esther Campbell, who died 24th June, 1828. He wrote the 
 account of the parish for Sinclair's Statistical Account. He performed parochial 
 duty till he was 94 years of age. 
 
 NO. XIII. 
 
 From "The Works of John Knox" (Wodrow Society), Edin., 1846. 
 
 " The Condemnation of M. George Wischeart, Gentleman, who suffered Martyr- 
 dome for the Fayth of Christ Jesus, at St. Andrewes in Scotland, anno 1546, Marche 
 1 ; with the Articles objected against him, and his Answeres to the same. 
 
 . . . And when he (Dean John Wynrame) ended his Sermone, incontinent 
 thei caused Maister George to ascend unto the pulpet, there to heir his Accusatioun 
 and Articles; for rycht against him stood up one of the fedd flok, a monstere, Johnne 
 Lawder, ladin full of cursingis, written in paper, of the which he took out a roll 
 boyth long and also full of cursingis, threatnynges, maledietionis, and wordis of 
 devillesh spyte and malice, saying to the innocent Maister George so many cruell and 
 abhominable wordis, and hit him so spytfullie with the Popis thunder, that the 
 ignorant people dreded least the earth then wold have swallowed him up qwick. 
 . . . When that this fedd sow had red throwghout all his lying minasingis, his 
 face runnyng doune with sweat, and frothing at the mouth lyik ane bayre, he spate 
 at Maister George his face, saying, "What ansuerest thow to these sayingis, thow 
 runnigat, tratour, theof, which we have dewlye proved by sufficient witnes against 
 thee?" Maister George, hearing this, satt doune upoun his kneis in the pulpete, 
 making his prayer to God. . . . 
 
 A foot note says : — Mr. John Lauder, who acted as public accuser or prosecutor 
 on other occasions, as well as this of Wishart, was educated at St. Andrews. His 
 
APPENDIX. xix 
 
 name occurs among the Licentiates "in Pedagogio," in the year 1508. In a Decree 
 Arbitral, dated at St. Andrews, 16th October, 1518, he thus designates himself: "Ego 
 Johannes Lauder, artium magister, clericus Sancti Andreas diocesis, publicus 
 sacris Apostolica et Imperiali auctoritatibus notarius, ac in officio Scriptoris archivii 
 Eomane Curie matriculatus ac descriptus."— (Eental Book of St. Andrews, 1550.) — 
 From the Treasurer's accounts we find that he was frequently employed in Ecclesi- 
 astical negotiations. Thus in 1533 : — ■ 
 
 "Item, to Maister Johne Lauder, to pass to Eome in the Kingis erandis, maid 
 in fynance V c [500] frankis, price of ilk frank xs. vjd., Scottis money,"... £262 10s. 
 
 "Item, gevin to him at his departing, to by him horss and uther 
 necessaris, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... £40." 
 
 " Item, to Eobene Bertoun, for the fraucht of ane litill schip, in the quhilk the 
 said Maister Johne past in Flanderes, £25." 
 
 " Item, dresses to his twa servandis," &c. Again, in 1534 : — 
 
 "Item, to Maister Johne Lauder, to performeis certaine the Kingis Grace's 
 erandis in Eome, J m [1000] frankis. Summa, £525." 
 
 In July 1541 :— 
 
 " Item, to Maister Johnne Lauder, for his [laubours] in writing of directionis to the 
 Courte of [Eome?] for promotioun of the Abbayis of Coldinghame, [Kelso, and] 
 Melros, to the Kingis Grace sonis/' 
 
 The Accusatioun of Adame Wallace and his Answeris (1550), [p. 238.] . . . 
 Thei begyn to accuse him, (Maister Johnne Lauder was Aecusatour,) — " That he took 
 upoun him to preach." . . . 
 
 A foot-note says : — " To the notices at page 152, respecting John Lauder, it may 
 be added, that being one of the auditors of the Chamberlain's accounts for the Arch- 
 bishoprick of St. Andrews, from 1540 to 1549, he is styled Archdeacon of Teviot- 
 dale. — (MS. Eental Book, Advocates Library). In Foxe's account of the trial of 
 Adam Wallace, 1550, Lauder is called parson of Morebattle. In February 1551, he 
 is styled Archedene of Teviotdale, and Notary Public of St. Andrews. — (Acta Pari. 
 Scot., vol. II., p. 489). In the same year, Lauder signs a deed as " Seeretarius" of 
 Archbishop Hamilton, (MS. Eental Book, at St. Andrews :) as the deed referred to 
 was cancelled, and reconfirmed in 1556, without any notice of Lauder's name, it may 
 be conjectured that he died during that interval." 
 
 William Lauder of Haltoun is mentioned in the same volume under date 
 1559 (p. 350). 
 
 NO. XIV. 
 
 From Calderioood'g "History of the Kirk of Scotland." (Wodrow Society.). 
 
 Vol I., p. 263. — Trial of Adam Wallace, 1550. ... At the farther end of the 
 chancellarie wall, [in the church of the Blacke Friars in Edinburgh], in the pulpit, 
 was placed Mr. Johne Lawder, Parsoun of Marbottle, accuser, cled in a surplice, and 
 a reid hood. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Vol. II., p. 543. — William Lawder, Laird of Hattoun is, along with Andrew 
 Lord TJcliiltrie and many others, "appointed to conveene before the nohilitie 
 presentlie assembled in Edinburgh" (1570). 
 
 Vol. V., p. 95. — Coronation of King James VI.'s Queen. Upon the Lord's day, the 
 17th of May, 1590, the queene was crowned in the Abbey Kirk [Edinburgh]. Before 
 she went out of her chamber, the Chancellor was made Lord Thirlstane ; . . . the 
 Laird of Basse and several others were dubbed knights. In 1593 the Laird of 
 Basse was one of a committe appointed by James VI. to examine into his affairs. 
 
 Vol. V, p. 278. — The name of George Lawder of Basse appears in an act drawn up 
 at Linlithgow, 31st October, 1593, on the occasion of the adjournment of a meeting 
 held there. 
 
 NO. XV. 
 
 From Pitcairris " Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland," Edin. 1833. 
 
 .Slaughter. — Sept. 18, (1566). — William Lauder, brother-german of Gilbert 
 Lauder of Balbardie, found caution to undeiiy the law at the next Justice-aire of 
 Berwick, for the cruel Slaughter of George Wedderat, burgess of Lauder, committed 
 in the month of September 1565. Sep. 19. — Bobert, and Richard, son and heir 
 apparent of Bobert Lauder of that Ilk, and Eobert Lauder, son of unq le Thomas 
 Lauder in St. Leonardis, found caution to answer for the same crime. 
 
 JtbiMrtg from the Igoet to pas© totoarii© Stirling. — Jul. 17 (1584). — 
 
 gilbert lawdee of Balbardeis, Williame Lawder, his sone and appeirand air. 
 
 Dilaitit for remaining and abyding at hame fra our souerane lordis oist, 
 raid and armie, ordanit to haif conuenit at Halirudhous, and theirfra to haif 
 past towardis Striueling (for resisting of the tressonabill attemptatis of certane 
 tratouris and rebellis, quhilkis had tane the said burcht and Castell of Striueling). 
 The quhilk day, the personis enterit on pannell, produceit ane Licence, grantit to 
 thame be the Kingis Maiestie and lordis of his hienes Secreit Counsale, exemeand 
 thame fra oistis, raidis and armeis ; quhilk exenrptioun is of the dait, at Halrudhous 
 the xxiiij day of Apryle, 1584 — (Sic subscribitur) JAMES B. Hdntlie Lochinwaee. 
 
 Bobert Laudee op ye Bass,, k nt -, is cited (vol. I., *78) as being present 
 at a trial in re a "Eeud between the Maxwells and the Creichtons — Slaughter 
 of the Laird of Kirkpatrick, while at the Horn, &c," at Edinburgh 24 Sept. 1512, 
 whilst alexandee laudee is Justiciarius deputatis (Sept. 28), the verdict 
 being signed on 31 Sept. by (amongst others) "Alexander Lauder of Blyth (kny 1 ) 
 Prouest of Edinburghe." 
 
 Aug. 30 (1529) — eobeet lawdee, the young Laird of Bass and others, were 
 amerciated for not appearing to underly the Law for Convocation of the lieges 
 coming with the Laird of Nudry against the Laird of Edmonstoune. 
 
APPENDIX. hi 
 
 Apr. 7 (1529) — Eemission to Robert ladder of bass and xj others for 
 treasonably intorconiinuning, resetting and assisting Archibald, late Earl of Angus, 
 George D. his brother, and Archibald their uncle. 
 
 Nov. 7 (1537) — Bespitt to Robert ladder of bass, and v vtheris for the 
 tresonabill Intercommonyng with Inglismen, in tyme of Weir &c. For xix yeris 
 (At Striueling V° nierkis). 
 
 The larde of bass is one of the "Assisa" in the case "Convocation of the 
 lieges — Invasion — Wounding, &c. — Dec, 9, 1561. 
 
 Dec. 15 (1580) — Jftarber. — waltare lawdeb, serwand to vmq le - the Lairde 
 of Bass. Dilaitit of art and pairt of the crewall murthour of vmcjuhile Mr 
 James Lawder of the Bass, his maister; cornniittit in the moneth of October. (There 
 is marked on the margin of the Eecord " Conuict. et decollat.") 
 
 Oct. 31 (1593) — (apud Lynlytligow) — A commission is granted to — amongst 
 others — George Ladder of Bass. 
 
 Dec. 23 (1595) — (Eharije Jtgatii© Jtosflttis litbw gleiMie Jfett) to appear 
 before the King and Council ' at Haliruidhous ' and 'that they keip thair ludgeingis 
 eftir thair earning, quhill thay be speciallie send for,' &c* george ladder of 
 Bass, and Charles ladder sone and air of vmq le - Andro Lauder on Wyndpark, vpoun 
 Jan. v. . . . 
 
 In a trial, Eeb. 12 (1596), the Laird of Bass appears amongst the "exceptions 
 against the persons summoned to pass upon the Assise," in respect he is a Counsallour. 
 
 A forgery trial, 27 April (1512), takes place before "Alexander ladder de 
 Blythe, milite, Preposito de Edinburghe." 
 
 Oct. 20 (1594) — Gilbert Lawder slaine, in Linlithgow, be the Cranstounis. 
 
 Mar. 23 (1532), William Lauder of Haltoune was amerciated for not appearing 
 to enter on this assise. 
 
 Apr. 14 (1534) William Lawder of Haltoune appears in a oase on this date. 
 
 Mar. 29 (1546), Alex. Lauder of Haltoune appears as surety for John Sandelandis. 
 
 Sept. 24 (1566), Willianie Lauder of Haltoune is surety for James Wodderspvne 
 of Brighous. 
 
 Dec. 8 (1570), William Lauder of Haltonn — with others — was "vnlawit in the 
 panis of xl pundis for non-comperance to pass vpoune the said Assyise." 
 
 May 14 (1588), (Sir) William Lauder of (in) Dunbar, is cited as one of the 
 "Assisa." 
 
 June 25 (1557), Mr, Henry Lauder is alluded to as Queen's Advocate. 
 
 Nov. 22 (1509), Alexander Lauder de . . . (Bass?) miles, is on an assise. 
 
 May 18 (1530), Bobert Lauder of that Ilk is mentioned. 
 
 Nov. 7 (1565), Gilbert Lauder, in Quhitslaid, delatit of the Slauchter of vmq le - 
 George Wedderat (burgess of Lauder, vpon the said George's lands and croft, lying 
 near the Water of the said burgh) ; committed vpoune the xxviij day of September last 
 by past (upon old fl'eud, certain purpose, and forethought felony). Amongst the 
 " Prelocutouris for the said Gilbert" is "The Lard of Lawder." 
 
 Bobert Lauder of that Ilk appears on the Assisa in a Sheep and Cattle Stealing 
 Case, Jul. 21, 1624. 
 
 This in consequence of a feud with Lord Borthwick. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 In a document entitled "kemission in favor of the pannell, the Earl of 
 Home, $c," dated 17 Nov. 1607, is found the designation " Willielmo Lauder, Balliui 
 burgi nostri de Lauder, vocat. Williame at the West-Poirt, intra Pretorium nostrum 
 de Lanark." 
 
 (Stxpplging the (English at f^anier — Common treason.— Jul. 18 (1549) — 
 William laudbb in Lauder, Convicted of the treasonable Intercommuning, 
 resett, supply, and assistance given to our ancient enemies the English, being 
 within the Fortalice near to the burgh of Lauder; continually furnishing them 
 with meat and drink, from the time of the building thereof, in the month of 
 . . . . 1547 : and for leading and conducting the said English to the foresaid 
 Fortalice, and other places at their will, to the spoiling, wasting, and destruction of 
 the kingdom, and conquest thereof ; revealing and shewing to our said enemies the 
 secrets of the kingdom : and specially, for carrying and sending Letters and close 
 writings of Sir Hugh Willeby, and other Englishmen, within England and Scotland, 
 in a treasonable manner : and for common Treason. — beheaded. 
 
 Wcitit— Smiting Ihiebes anb Creators, &c— Oct. 9 die Lune (1506).— 
 cuthbert lauder, of Todrik, Convicted of art and part of the Theft and concealment 
 of two horses from Alexander Turnbull furth of Braidle : Item (here follow various 
 counts) — drawn and hanged. . . 
 
 April 1 (1555) — "William Lawder, for forging a discharge in the name of an Italian, 
 was banished arid declared Infamous in all time coming. 
 
 Williame Lauder, bailzie of Dumbar, is on assise, April 20 (1620), as is also 
 (June 29, 1577), Alex. Lauder of Winmoguhe. 
 
 NO. XVI. 
 
 From " Chronicon de Lanercost, lZOl-lSJfi." JSdin., 18S9. 
 
 In an account of the treason, capture, and execution of Andrew de Harcla 
 governor of Carlisle, dominic.us Hugo de Lowther is mentioned as assisting at the 
 capture of the unfortunate earl (Feb. 25, 1323), for which he was, along with 
 others, rewarded by Edward II. 
 
 "Kex autem dominum Antonium et alios qui comitem ceperant, abundanter 
 respexit, videlicet, dominum Antonium de Lucy de maniero de Cokermouth 
 dominum Eicardum de Denton de villa de Thoresby juxta Karleolum, dominum 
 Hugonem de Moriceby de parte villse de Culgaythe, quae quidem pars fuit praadicti 
 Andrea comitis, dominum Hugonem de Louthre de [ . . . . 1 Eicardum de 
 Salkelde de villa de Magna Corkeby." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XVII. 
 
 From " Rotuli Scotice in Turri Londinensi et in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi 
 asservatt." London, 1814--19, 2 vols., folio. 
 
 A.D. 1296, 5th Oct.— Hugo de Louther.— 24th. Ed. I. 
 
 AD. 1297, 31st Aug.— Hug' de Louthre.— 25th Ed. I. 
 
 AD. 1309, 26th Oct. — Pro defensione Marchiee vicince Karliolo contra Scotoi, 
 Hug' de Louthre.— 3rd Ed. II. 
 
 AD. 1311, 20th May.— Hugo de Louthre.— 4th Ed. II. 
 
 AD. 1316, 7th Aug. — Salvus conductus pro Johanne de Harcla et Willielmode 
 Somervill, negotiaturis pro deliberations captivorum in Scotia; .... and Hugo de 
 Louther.— 10th Ed. II. 
 
 AD. 1319, 8th June. — Hugo de Louthre (Kendale, Westmorland). — 12th 
 Ed. II. 
 
 AD. 1319, 20th July. — Hugo de Louthre (Kendale, Westmorland). — 13th 
 Ed. II. 
 
 AD. 1336-7, 20th March— Hugo de Louther.— 11th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1340, 24th Aug. — Hugo de Louthre (apud Karliolum).— 14th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1341, 1st June. — Rex Edwardus mandat quod omnes homines defensabiles 
 in comitatibus Curnbrice et Westmerlandim parati sint ad proficiscendum contra Scotos, 
 castrum Stryvelyni obsidentes. Hugo de Louthre. — 15th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1342, 2nd June. — Hugo de Louthre, grant for services. — 16th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1344, 22nd May.— Hugo de Louthre.— 18th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1344, 18th Aug.— Hugo de Louthre.— 18th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1344, 18th Aug.— Hugo de Louthre.— 18th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1344, 15th Nov.— Hugo de Louthre.— 18th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1345, 20th Ap— Hugo de Louthre.— 19th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1346-7, 20th Jan.— Hugo de Louthre.— 20th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1358-9, 8th Feh. — Hugo de Lauther, chivaler. 
 Johannes de Lauthre, films. 
 Thomas de Lauthre, consanguineus. — 33rd Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1318, 7th Oct.— Johannes de Louthre (Karliolum).— 12th Ed. II. 
 
 AD. 1319, 8th June. — Johannes de Louthre. — 12th Ed. II. 
 
 A.D. 1333, 26th July. — Letter of protection for (amongst others) Kobtus. Loter 
 de Berewico sup. Twedam. — 8th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1333-4, 4th Mar. — Kobs. de Wyndegates et antecessores sui — Robts. de 
 Loweder le Lang. (Mandatum de liberando mesuagium terram et partem piscaria, 
 Roberto de Wyndegates.) — 8th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1333-4, 4th Mar. — Mandatum de liberatione mesuagiorum, tostorum, fyc, 
 in Berewico ' Robts. de Lowedre seniori et idem Robs, de Loweder ea dedit Robts. fil 
 suo.'—Sth. Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1333-4, 4th Mar.— Willus. Loudour.— 8th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1333-4, 4th Mar.— Willus. Louedour.— 8th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1333-4, 4th Mar. — Robtertus de Loweder, senior.— 8th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1334, 15th June. — Robertus de Lowedre, constituitur justitiarius regis 
 Anglim in Laudonia. — 8th Ed. Ill, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 A.D. 1335, 18th Oct.— 29th Oct., 9th Nov., 13th Nov., 21st Dec. ; Robertas de 
 Lowethre, miles. — 9th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1335, 20th Dec. — Safe-conduct for Kobertus de Laweder, miles, and 
 others.— 9th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1337, 2nd Sept.— De pensione septem solidorum quaque hebdomada 
 Elizabethan de Lowedere solvenda. — 11th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1346, 8th Dec- — Mandatur quod magnates Scotice, in prcelio apnd NevilVs 
 Gross capti, ad Turrim Londinii ducantur ; et solutio redemptionis pretii captoribus 
 promittitur — Eobts de Lother de 
 
 Bartho de Dermond Alamand et 
 
 Eobto. Chesholm, prisonibus, &c. — 20th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1358-9, 8th Feb.— Alanus de Lawedre.— 33rd Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1364, 4th Nov. — Eobtus. fil. Alani de Lawedre, mercatore.— 38th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1364, 28th Nov.— Wills, de Lawedir, mercator de Scot'.— 38th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1365, 20th May.— Ector de, Lowether.— 39th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1365-6, 14th Oct. — Ector Laweder armiger de Scot' and seven associates 
 have a safe-conduct. — 40th Ed. III. 
 
 A.D. 1373, 3rd May.— Alanus de Lauwedyr de Scotia.— 47th Ed. III. 
 
 AD. 1389, 5th Oct.— Thomas de Lawedre.— 13th Eic. II. 
 
 AD. 1403-4, 6th Mar.- Galfridus Louthir.— 5th Hen. IIII. 
 
 AD. 1404, 18th Sept. — Safe-conduct for Willielmus de Lawadir and Alanus de ' 
 Lawedir de Scotia. — 5th Hen. IIII. 
 
 AD. 1405, 27th Aug. — Magr. Willm. de Lawedre, archidiaconus Laudonie. — 
 6th Hen. IIII. 
 
 A.D. 1406, 5th July. — Magr. Willm. Lawedir, archidiaconus Laudonie. — 
 7th Hen. IIII. 
 
 A.D. 1411, 15th June. — Kobertus Lawedyr, miles. — 12th Hen. IIII. 
 
 A.D. 1411, 24th Sept. — Georgius de Lawedre, mercatore. — 12th Hen. IIII. 
 
 AD. 1413, 10th June.— Galfridus Louthir.— 1st Hen. V. 
 
 AD. 1423-4, 3rd Feb.— Jacobus de Lawedre de Scotia.— 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423-4, 3rd Feb.— Kobertus de Lawedre de Basse, chr. — 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423-4, 4th Feb. — Edwardus de Lawedre, archidiaconus de Lauden in ecclia. 
 Sti. Andree in Scotia. — 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 12th May. — Venerabilis pater Wills epus Glasguen' cancellar' 
 Scotie, Patricius de Dunbar de Bele, Kobtus de Lawedre de Edryngtoune — de Scotia, 
 milites. — 1st Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 13th May. — Alexander de Lawedre, archidiaconus Dunkeldensis. — 
 1st Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 13th May. — Salvus conductus pro Georgio et Koberto Laweder et 
 navi eorum. — 1st Hen. VI. 
 
 AD. 1423, 16th Sep.— Patricius de Dunbar, miles, Robtus de Laweder, miles. — 
 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 AD. 1423, 19th Nov. — Alexander de Lawedre, archidiaconus de Dunkelden in 
 Scotia. — 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 3rd Dec. — Venerabilis pre. Willmus. epus Glasguensis; Patricius de 
 Dunbar de Bele; Kobertus de Lawedre de Edryngton. ( Commissarii as&ignantur ad 
 tractandum cum commissariis Scotice). — 2nd Henry VI. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 4th Dec. — Safe-conduct, Georgins de Lawedre, Eobertus de 
 Lawedre. — 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 4th Dec— Gilbtus. de Lawedre.— 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 13th Dec. — Jacobus de Laweder de Scotia. — 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1423, 13th Dec— Eobtus. de Laweder de Basse, chr.— 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1424, 8th June. — Alex, de Laweder, archidiaconus de Dunkelden, et 
 Magr. Edwardus de Laweder, archidiaconus de Laudon. — 2nd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1424-5, 4th March. — Salvus conduetus pro duobws meraatoribus Edin- 
 burgensibus in Belgium profeduris. Eobtus. de Lawedre, Thomas de Lawedre. — 
 3rd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1425, 9th June. — Magr. Edwardus de Laweadre. — 3rd Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1425-6, 7th Feb. — Eobtus. de Lawedre, Thomas de Lawedre. — 4th 
 Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1429, 5th May.— Willrmis. de Lawedre.— 7th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1430-31, 16th Jan.— Alexander de Lawedre.— 9th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1432, 6th May.— Alexander Lawedre.— 10th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1432, 30th Nov.— Magr. Alex, de Lauadir.— 11th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1434, 25th June.— Alexander Lawder.— 13th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1439, 23rd Nov.— Alexander Lawedre.— 18th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1446, 26th June. — "Willielmus Lawedre de Halton, armiger. — 24th 
 Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1450, 12th Nov. — "Willielmus Lauthre and Alanus de Lauthre. — 29th 
 Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1451, 12th May. — Willielmus de Lawdre de Halton — Alanus de Lawdre. — 
 29th Hen. VI. 
 
 A.D. 1453, 30th May. — Eobertus Lawedre (Novce inductee inter reges AngJice et 
 Scotice, cum confirmed ione). — 31st Hen. VI. 
 
 A.I) 1464, 14th June. — Johes. Lawidir de Hawton, miles. — 4th Ed. IV. 
 
 A.D. 1465-6, 14th Mar.— Alex. Lawidir de Hawton, miles.— 6th Ed. IV. 
 
 A.D. 1470, 20th Nov. — A safe-conduct to Eobertus Lauder, and two others. — 
 49th Hen. VI. [sic. 10th Ed. IV. ?] 
 
 A.D. 1512, 27th July. — A safe-conduct to Eobertus Lawder de Basse, miles, 
 and 5 others. — 3rd Hen. VIII. 
 
 A.D. 1512, 24th Jan. — A safe-conduct to Eobertus Lawder de Bass, miles, 
 and 4 others. — 4th Hen. VIII. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XVIII. 
 
 From. Fordun's " Scotiehronicon." Edinburgh, 1759. 
 
 Vol. II., p. 311. — Adlme de hello de Halidona, et de deditione Benvici regi Anglice. 
 Abhinc infra paucos dies, Anglioi cum Eadw. de Balliolo universum regnum, dis- 
 positis liinc inde custodibus castroram, justiciariis, viceeomitibus, et officiariis, in 
 manibus suis resaisiaverunt, exceptis dnntaxat quatuor castris, cum uno fortalicio, 
 videlicet Dumbretan, cujus custos fuit dominus Malcolmus Flemyng ; Loclilevin, 
 cujus Alanus de Veteri-ponte ; Kildromy, cujus domina Christiana de Bruce ; * 
 Urqvhart, cnjus dominus Thomas f de Lavebir, qui meatus est tonus, custodes 
 exstitere ; et fortalicii de Louchdoun, quod tunc Anglice vocabatur Pele, custos erat 
 valens vernaculus, Johannes videlicet Thoma?. 
 
 P. 432. — De conflidu de Nesbit secundo, per nobilem Patricium Hepburn de 
 Hales. . . . Capti sunt enim ibi incliti milites, viz. Johannes et Thomas Haliburton, 
 Kobertus Lawedre de le Bass, Johannes et Willelmus Cockburn fratres, cum multis 
 valentibus armigeris, et quasi flos militia? magna? partis Laudonire ; domini Johannes 
 et Thomas Haliburton, obsiclibus datis, postquam dommn pervenerunt, in profluvio 
 ventris occubuerunt. 
 
 P. 502.- — ■ . . . Cui successi t, ex pro visione Apostolicse sedis, ad requasstum regis, 
 venerabilis vir, et omni morum probitate conspicuus, magister Alexander Lawkdre 
 rector de Eatho, frater uterinus recolendas memoria? domini Wiilelmi episcopi Glas- 
 guensis et regni cancellarii. Hie dominus Alexander fuit decus morum et censor 
 virtutum, qui nondum consecratus vix stetit per annum praBsul. . . . Hie obiit in 
 Edinburgh, xj. die Octobris, A. Dom. mccccxl. et sepultus est in ecclesia parochiali 
 de Lawedre, loco sepulture suae parentelse 
 
 NO. XIX. 
 
 From "Extracta ex Variis Cronicis Scocie." Edin., 18 J$. 
 
 Bellum de Halidone, 1333. (P. 164). — Edwardus de Balliolo, Anglis sibi 
 assignatis et associatis, cepit dominari in toto regno, redditis sibi mimicionibus, 
 exceptis quatuor et vno fortalicio conseruatis per subscriptos ; videlicet Dounbertane 
 per Malcomum Flemyng, Loclilevin per Alanum de Veteri Ponte, alias Wepunt, 
 Kyndromi per dominant Christianam Broys, Vrquhart per dominum Robertum 
 Laudyr, vocatum bonwm, et fortalicium de Lochdoune vocatum lie Pele per Johannem 
 Thome. 
 
 1542 — (p. 255). — The v. d. of Juny, M. Villiem Gybsone, byschop of Libari- 
 ensis and suffraganeus to Dawid Beton, Cardynall and Archebysschop of Santandros, 
 consecrat and dedicat the paris kyrk in the craig of the Bass, in honor of Sant 
 Baldred, bysschop and confessor, in presens of maister Jhon Lawder, arsdene of 
 Teuidaill, noter publict. 
 
 Koberti I. regis soror. t Robertus, MS. Cupr. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XX. 
 
 From " Index of Records of Charters granted by Sovereigns of Scotland between 
 1309 and HIS." Edin., 179S. 
 
 55 Carta to Robert Lauder, of the lands of Pentlmteland et de Nisbyt, qn.efuerunt 
 Thome de Penka.'ela.nd. Rob. I. 
 
 62 to Robert Lauder, of the lands of Colden, within the barony of Dalkeith, 
 
 que fuit Petri Luband, Militis, nuper de proditione erga Regem et 
 regnum conuicti. Rob. I. 
 
 68 to Robert Lauder, of Pentketland and Nisbet, quilks were Thomas 
 
 Penketland, et quas idem Thomas forisfecit. Rob. I. 
 
 89 to Robert Lauder, of the miln of Lethberd, quod fuit quondam Philippi 
 
 de Lyndesay, et quod Simon de Lyndesay, miles, frater ejusdem Philippi, 
 forisfecit. Rob. I. 
 
 21 to Allan Lawder, of 101. furth of the justiciary by-south Forth. Dav. II. 
 
 49 to Allan Lauder, of ane pension furth of the justiciarie be-south 
 
 Forth. ' ' Dav. II. 
 
 5 to Robert Lauder, justice by-north the water of Forth, of ane pension. 
 
 Dav. II. 
 
 67 to Roberto de Lawedre, Militi, annue pensionis 201. de exitibus justiciarie 
 
 ex parte boriali aque de Forth ; apud Dunfernielyne, I Oct. a. 
 r. 54. Dav II. 
 
 277 Confir. carte concesse per Regem dum fuerat Senescallus Scotie. . . . 
 
 Alano de Lawedre tenenti nostro de Whytslad, wardas, maritagia, 
 relevia, annuos redditus, albas firmas, et earum duplicationes, cum 
 curiarum eschaetis, et servitiis libere tenentium de tenendria de 
 Birkysyd, Lygeardwode, et Moustoun, que de nobis tenentur in capite, 
 infra vie. de Berwyco super Tweydaru. Rob. II. 
 
 278 Confirm, donationis quam Malcolmus, Alius Johannis, filii Mgelli de 
 
 Carrik, fecit Alano de Lawedre, de terra de Mertoun, que fuit 
 quondam Alani le Suche, de medietate terre dominici de Lawedre, 
 cum medietate molendini fullonis ejusdem, que fuit quondam Domini 
 Johannis de Balliolo et de terra de Newbyggyng, in constabularia de 
 Lawedre, infra vie. de Berwyk super Twedam ; apud Sanctum 
 Andream, 13. Junii, an. reg. i mo - Rob. II. 
 
 279 Confirm, donationis quam Hugo de Eglyntoun, Miles, fecit Alano de 
 
 Lawedre, de terra de Norto.un, in baronia de Rothew, in vie. de Edyn- 
 burgh; apud Sanctum Andream, 13. Junii, an. reg. I. Rob. II. 
 
 280 Confirm, donationis quam Willielmus Comes de Douglas fecit Alano de 
 
 Lawedre, de terra de Urmotstoun, in regalitate de Lawedre ; apud 
 Sanctum Andream, 13. Junii, an. reg. i. 
 
 281 Confirm, donationis "quani nos fecimus dum nos eramus Senescallus 
 
 Scotie," Alano de Lawedre, et Alicie Cambell, et eorum diutius viventi, 
 de duabus carucatis terre in villa de Nortoun, in baronia de Rathew, 
 in vie. de Edynburgh, que fuerunt Ibbok et Minote de Nortoun anti- 
 quorum tenentium earundem, et quas Fynlaus Alius Henrici resignavit; 
 apud Sanctum Andream, 13. Junii an. reg. i m0 - Rob. II. 
 
xxviii APPENDIX. 
 
 329 " Evidentie Alano de Lawedre alias concesse, que Bunt septem numero, cum 
 una protectione perpetua, renovate sunt, de data, 10. die mensis Martii, 
 an. reg. Eegis 2 d0 ." Rob. II. 
 
 1 Carta Eegis Davidis 2 di confirmans cartam concessam per Willielmum Comitem 
 de Eoss . . . data apud castrum dicti Comitis de Urcharde, 4 to Julii, 
 an. Doni. 1342, testibus . . . Dominus Eoberto de Lawedre. . . . 
 
 Dav. II. 
 9 " Collo, sic. Tractatus pacis finnate." This deed is in French. It is a ratifica- 
 tion by King Edward III. of England " et totum consilium," dated at 
 Northaniptoun, the 4th of May, in the 2 d year of that King's reign, 
 viz. 1328, of a treaty, concluded at Edinburgh on the 17th of March, 
 1327, {i.e. 1328) between Eobert King of Scots and the Plenipotenti- 
 aries of said King Edward III. By this treaty it is agreed, l mo , 
 That a marriage should be solemnized as soon as possible between 
 David, eldest son and heir of the King of Scots, and Johanna, sister 
 of the King of England, both being then under age ; . . . S vo , and 
 finally, Hugh Earl of Eosse, and Kobert de Lawedre Justiciary of 
 Lothian, in presence of, by the special command, and on the soul of 
 the King of Scots, swore on the Holy Gospels, to the faithful perform- 
 ance of all the articles of the treaty. Dav. II. 
 104 Carta to Allan de Lawder, of the town and lands of Haltoune, in the barony of 
 Eathow, vie. de Edinburgh, whilk John de Haltoun resigned. Eob, IT. 
 
 8 to Allan de Lauder, of the lands of the Burrow Moor of Edinburgh, by 
 
 resignation of Eichard Broun. Eob. II. 
 
 21 given by James Sandilands of Calder, to George Lauder of Haltoun, 
 
 the lands of Somefawlache, Greinhill, of the barony of Wistoun, by 
 
 resignation of Marion Pettendreich. Eob. III. 
 
 32 to William Lauder, of his lands in Borrow Moor, Edinburgh. Eob. III. 
 
 12 Con. of a charter . . . dated Corstorfyne, 20th Aug. 1406; witnesses 
 
 . . . . Mr William de Lawedr Archdean of Lothian 
 
 Eob. duke of Albany. 
 
 42 to Alexander de Lauder, and Elizabeth Forster his spouse, daughter to 
 
 Jo. Forster of Corstorphyne, of the lands of Plat, Westhall, and 
 North Eaw, in the barony of Eathow, and shire of Edinburgh, on the 
 resignation of said Alexander, holden of the Prince. 
 
 Eob. duke of Albany. 
 
 13 Con. of a charter . . . dated Dyrltoun, 8th June, 1409 ; witnesses . . . 
 
 Eobert de Lawedre. . . . Eob. duke of Albany. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XXI. 
 
 From "Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh," A.D. 1 403-1528. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1869. 
 
 Vol. I., p. 2. — 3rd October, 1403. At an election of officers of the guild James 
 of Lawder and Will, of Lawder are of " thame that comperit and wes sworne." 
 
 P. 40. — 17 October, 1481. Jhone of Lawder is mentioned in an " Actum pro 
 Stallangiatoribus," whilst in " the setting of the buiths under the auld tollbuith " he 
 is assigned " the nixt (eistmaist) for iiij li." He is again mentioned, 6th October, 
 1492, and 24th February, 1495. 
 
 P. 162.— In an instrument "pro Francisco Touris," dated 22nd May, 1516, we 
 read : — Testibus, magistro Dauid Lauder vicario de Erslidon . . . Willelme 
 Lauder. 
 
 P. 188. — 8 June, 1519. The samyn day, Maister James Foulis in the name and 
 behalf of Williarne Lauder of Haltoun protestit that quhateuer war done be the 
 inqueist aboue writtin hourt him nocht nor his landis of the Borrowmuir, as air till 
 vmquhill Sir Alexander Lawder his erne, and for remeid of law quhane and quhair 
 it efferit. 
 
 P. 207. — 1521. xx Julii hora quarta post merediem. The lard of Wauchton 
 for him and the lard of Bass protestit that sen thai war commandit be the Kingis 
 lottres till cum to this toun till resist the Kingis rebelles, and as thair collegis baronis 
 of the cuntre war nocht redy as thai war, and as the lordis promittit to thaim, as 
 thai allegit, that therfor na perell mycht be imput to them, et dominus Wauchton 
 petiit instrumentum. Testibus, preposito balliuis et communitate. 
 
 The pro vest baillies and consall requyrit the lard of Wauchton and the lard of 
 Bass that thai and thair folkis suld remane still in the tovn, and quhat part thai 
 wuld tak anent the resisting of the Kingis rebellis the tovne suld tak the samyn and 
 pas with thaim, et prepositus petiit instrumentum. Testibus, magistro Boberto 
 Galbrath et Vincentio Strathachin. 
 
 The lard of Wauchton in his naim and the lard of Bass ofYerit thame till do 
 within the toune as thai war requyrit to be the Kingis lettres and out of the touno 
 thai suld do syklyk as vtheris baronis wald do, et petiit instrumentum. Testibus vt 
 supra. Acta in pretorio. [Pro villa et baronibus penes defensionem domini nostri 
 regis et ville.] 
 
 P. 209. — -14 June, 1522. Gilbert Lauder is one of a committee of six " personis 
 ordanit to be wairnit till compeir vpoun the ground of the said land to morne efter 
 none till apprys the samyn" and he is a witness, 18th August, 1524. 
 
 Vol. II., p. 58. — 12th September, 1532. The quhilk day, in the presens of the 
 prouest baillies and counsale, Gilbert Lauder, procuratour and in the name and behalf 
 of Sir Gilbert Lauder, renuncit and purelie and simplie resignit the alterage and 
 seruice of Sanct Nicholace alter, scituat within the College Kirk of Sanct Geyll, in the 
 handis of the prouest baillies and counsale as patronis to the samyn, and incontinent 
 the said prouest baillies and counsale gaif the said alterage to Sir Dauid Purdome, be 
 the deliuering of ane bouet as vse is, efter the foundation. [The gyft of Sanct 
 Nicholace alter.] 
 
 25 September, 1532. The quhilk day, the prouest baillies counsale and com- 
 rnunitie granttis till Gilbert Lauder the landis of Petravye in Fyfe in few, as thay 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 that ar patroiiis to the sarnyn quhilk now Sir Gilbert Lawder chaiplane of Sanct 
 Nycholace alter, in augmentatioun of the rentale of the said chaiplanrie, viz. for xxvj 
 merkis, that is vj merkis mair nor it wes wont till gyf, to be brukit and joysit be the 
 said Gilbert and his airis, induellaris within the toun of Edinburgh, and granttis till 
 his charter thairof thair eommoun seill in the best forme can be maid. [Nota. — The 
 patroneg of Pettrawy in Fyfe the townys.] 
 
 P. 89. — 17 July, 1538. Entrie of the Quenes Grace. Item, it is deuysit for the 
 honour of the Kingis Grace and the guid towne at the entry of owre Souerane, that 
 thair be 12 persouns accowterit and arrayit in gownis of veluott with thair pertinentis, 
 viz. foure thairof in purpour, vtheris foure in tanny, and vtheris foure in blak veluott ; 
 That ar to say . . . Gilbert Lawder in tanny. [Aray in gownis]. 
 
 P. 91. — Item, it is devysit that Maister Henry Lawder be the persoun to welcum 
 the Quenis grace in sic abulyement, and with the words in Fransche, as sail be 
 devysit with avyse of Maister Adame Otterburne, Maister James Fowlis and Dauid 
 Lyndsay. 
 
 In the Dean of Guild's Accounts, 1552-53, the names of Gilbert Lauder and 
 James Lauder appear. 
 
 NO. XXII. 
 
 From " Charters and other Documents relating to the City of Edinburgh." Edin., 1871. 
 
 (P. 75), Thomas, Bishop of Dunkeld, is witness to a Grant by King James the 
 Second, dated Edinburgh, 4th November, 1454; (p. 77), he is also witness to 
 Letters Patent, Edinburgh, 5th November, 1454. In a "Confirmation of the 
 Foundation of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, 1462" (p. 100), amongst 
 the grants to " the first prebendary after the Provost " is one of " quinque solidos de 
 domo domini Thome episcopi Dunkeldensis " (five shillings from the house of the Lord 
 Thomas, Bishop of Dunkeld), whilst in a " Bull by Pope Pius II. (p. 110-4), dated 
 14th Kal. Julii (18th June), 1462," he is styled " Venerabilis frater noster Thomas 
 modernus Episcopus Dunkeldensis " (our venerable brother Thomas, present Bishop 
 of Dunkeld). * 
 
 (P. 53), A Grant by Sir Kobert Logan of Eestalrig to the Community of 
 Edinburgh, dated Edinburgh, 27th February, 1413-14, says: " Presentibus nobilibus 
 viris Giorgio de Lawedre tunc preposito dicti Burgi." .... (There being 
 present, noble men, George of Lawedre, then provoat of the said Burgh. ... . ). 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XXIII. 
 
 From Sir James Balfour's " Annals," vol. I. 
 
 (1402). — This yeire, the batell of Nisbet was foughtin betuix Sir Patrick 
 Hepburne of Hailes, Knight, and George Dumbar Earle of Marche &c. quherein Sir 
 Patrick was slain and of prissoners ther was taken Sir Robert Lauder of Basse. . . . 
 
 (1548). — Piobert Lauder of Basse, with the Frenehc garisone of Dumbar Castle 
 takes the Englishe prowisione going from Berwick to Hadingtone named Wilford 
 prissoner. 
 
 NO. XXIV. 
 
 From Moysie's " Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland," 1578-1603. Edin., 1830. 
 
 P. 28. — Schortly efter (Dec, 1580,) the guid mane of Northbervick wes sent 
 ambassadour to Ingland. . . . Quho returnit with ane generall ansuer. 
 
 P. 86. — Vpone the xxij day of the said monethe of Junij (1591), the erle 
 Bothwele brak ward out of the castle of Edinburgh at twa houris in the morning, be 
 the conuoy of Gilbert Lauder quho went with him. 
 
 P. 108. — " The laird of Base " is one of the representatives for the baronies 
 concerning "ane great trouble" which, "about this tyme (12 November, 1593), fell 
 out betuix the lord Maxvell and the laird of Johnstoun." 
 
 NO. XXV. 
 
 From " Reports on the State of certain Parishes in Scotland," 1627. Edin., 1S35. 
 
 Paroche op Diriltoun. — At Diriltoun the sixt of Maij 1627 — For the Tryall. 
 of the worth and rent of everie rourne of the parochine in stocke and teind we declair 
 as followis: . . .(p. 116.) — Elbottle. James Lauder lies thrie husband landis and vj 
 aikers in Elbottle of the quhilk the two part is waist being overblow en with sand, 
 and lie land, quhairof the laboured land is estimate in stocke to ij chalderis victuall, 
 the teind led be my Lord is estimate till viij bollis victuall. . . . (p. 117) Diriltoun. 
 . . . Item Johne Lauder hes vij aikers estimate worth v bollis and a halfe, the 
 teind led be my Lord estimate to v firlettis ij peckis. . . . (p. 119) Furdilaw. 
 Thomas Lauder hes iiij aikeris in Furdilaw quhilk payes to him viij bollis yeirlie, 
 the teind therof quhilk my Lord getis is estimate to v Metis becaus a good part of 
 it payes teind to the Viccar, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XXVI. 
 
 From Arnot's " Criminal Trials" from 1536 till 1784 (Glasgow, 1812), 
 
 page 433, Note VI. 
 
 Expense of Burning a Witch. A.D. 1649. 
 
 I am indebted for this curious paper to the polite and obliging communication 
 of Mr. William Henderson of the Glasshouse, Glasgow, a descendant of Mr. Logan 
 of Jjurneastle, on whose lands the unhappy sufferer lived. The accompt is a voucher 
 of a payment made by Alexander Louddon, factor on the estate of Burncastle, the 
 proprietor being then a minor and infant. It is entered in the factor's books thus : — 
 
 " Mair for Margarit Dunhome the time sche was in prison, and was put to death, 
 065 14 4. 
 
 Count gifin out he Alexander Louddon in Lylston, in ye yeir of God 1649 yeiris, 
 for Mar grit Dollmoune in Bumcastell. 
 Item, in ye first, to Wm. Currie and Andrew Gray, for the watching of hir ye 
 
 space of 30 days, inde ilk day xxx sh inde - xlv lib Scotts 
 
 Item mair to Jon Kinked for brodding of her - - - - vi lib Scotts 
 
 Mair for meat and drink and wyne to him and his man - - - iiij lib Scotts 
 
 Mair for cloth to hir - iij lib Scotts 
 
 Mair for twa tare treis xl sh Scotts 
 
 Item mair for twa treis, and ye making of them, to the warkmen, - iij lib Scotts 
 Item to ye hangman in Hadingtoun and fetchin of him, thrie 
 
 dollores for his pens, is - iiij lib xiiii sh 
 
 Item mair for meit and drink and wyne for his intertinge, - - iii lib Scotts 
 Item mair for ane man and twa horss, for ye fetcheing of him, and 
 
 taking of him hame agane xl sh Scotts 
 
 Mair to hir for meit and drink ilk ane day, iiij sh the space of xxx 
 
 dayes, is - - - ^ - vi lib Scotts 
 
 Item mair to ye twa officers for yr fie ilk day sex shilline aught 
 
 pennies, is - - - " .. " x lib Scotts 
 
 Summa is iiij scoir xii lib xiiij sh 
 
 Ghilbert Latjder. 
 Um. Lauder Bilzaurs. 
 
 Takin of this above written soume twentie-seavin pundis Scotis qlk the said 
 umql Margrit Dinhani had of her ain : 
 
 92 14 
 27 
 
 65 14 
 
APPENDIX. xxxiii 
 
 NO. XXVII. 
 
 From Lord Fountain! mil's " Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs," 1680-1701. 
 
 Edin., 1822. 
 
 P. 4.— Mr. John Lauder, younger, of Fountainhall, went and conversed them 
 in prison the day before their death (30th Nov., 1 680) ; but they were so begotted, that 
 he could not gett them convinced of their follys, but were all for cutting off the King. 
 
 P. 194. — Mr. William Gordon made agent to the town of Edinburgh, in place 
 ol Mr. Robert Lauder, at the Scots Parliament, disolved 8th October, 1686. 
 
 P. 197. — (4th Nov., 1686). ... In this affair ther arose a question betwixt 
 John Lauder and John Jousie, Chirurgeons. . . . 
 
 P. 260. — Mr. Robert Lauder, and some other gentlemen at Dunbar, by com- 
 mission from the Councill, upon some presumptions, condemned ane old woman for a 
 witch. She was brought before the Councill, and they enclined to assolzie her, and 
 sent her back to prison ; for the main thing proven, was her threatening such as 
 refused to give her money, and some evil accidents befalling them shortlie thereafter. 
 But, on 12th July, 1688, being brought again before the Councill, she was remitted 
 back to Dunbar, to be brunt there, if her Judges pleased, because she had confessed 
 once, though she retracted. 
 
 P. 272. — Robert Lauder, son to Lord Fountmhall, dyed 17th Deer. 1695. 
 
 P. 274. — Lord Fountainhall, his son William [Lawder] dyed, 21sfc July, 1696. 
 
 NO. XXVIII. 
 
 From Lord Fountainhall 's " Decisions," 2 vols. Edin., 1758. 
 
 Mr. Robert Lauder, one of the Clerks of Exchequer, against John Penman, 
 merch*- in Edin. March 5, 1684. Vol. I. 278. 
 
 Mr. William Lauder v. Watson and others. March 18, 1685. Vol. I. 355. 
 
 Colin Lauder, Merch*- in Edin. v. Chalmers of Gadgirth. Jan. 24 and Mch. 4, 
 1685. Vol. I. 333 and 349 (re silver-lace, &c.). 
 
 John Lauder, Chirurgeon- Apothecary in Edin. v. William Henderson. June 18, 
 1687. Vol. I. 457. 
 
 Colin Lauder and others v. Janet Trotter. July 28 and 29, 1687. Vol. I. 472. 
 
 John Lauder, Chirurgeon-Apothecary in Edin. v. John Robertson, Portioner in 
 Tranent. Dec. 7, 1687. Vol. I. 487. 
 
 Mr. William Lauder v. Sir James Dick of Priestfield. July 26, 1688. Vol. 
 
 I. 514. 
 
 Dr. Lauder v. Walter Burnside. Feb. 16, 1697. Vol. I. 767. 
 
 William Lauder of Winepark v. Earl of Lauderdale. Nov. 28, 1704. Vol. 
 
 II. 243. 
 
 Dame Margaret Lauder, Lady Pitmeddin and her husband v. Sir Robert Gordon 
 
 of Gordonston. Dec. 18, 1707. Vol. II. 404. 
 
 The Lady Gunsgreen v. Helen Lauder, and Mr. James Lauder, Provost of 
 Haddington, her husband. Feb. 1, 16'93. Vol. I. 552. 
 
 £ 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XXIX. 
 
 From " Collectanea Genealogica," Foster. London, 1882. 
 
 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. SCOTLAND. 
 
 Lauder laird of Bass — a minor baron in parliament 1592, 1593 conv. bis ; 1594 
 
 conv., 1597 conv., 1598 conv. ; 1599 conv., and 1605 conv. 
 (Probably Sir Robert Lander of Bas, father of Sir Robert Lauder of Popil, knt.) 
 
 laird of Haltovm — Edinburghshire, 1621. 
 
 Alexander, provost — Edinburgh, 1504 bis. 
 
 Andrew — Lauder, 1583 bis. 
 
 Charles, of Park, merchant — Lander, 1681-2. 
 
 George (or John Levington) — North Berwick, 1649. 
 
 Hugh— Dunbar, 1587. 
 
 James — Dunbar 1645, Renfrew 1645, ses. 2, Dunbar 1646-7 (or William 
 Purves) 1648. 
 
 James — Dunbar 1661-3 (and Thomas Purves, two of the bailies "conjunctly 
 and severally"); 1665 conv., 1667 conv. (merchant burgess, bailie) 
 1669-72. Haddington 1690 (Mr., bailie, late provost), until his death 
 s.b. 13th Aug. 1696. 
 
 John (sir), of Fountainhall, senator of the college of justice — Haddington 
 constabulary, 1685-6, 1690-1702, 1702-7. 
 
 Sir John Lauder of Fountain Hall, co. Haddington (grandson of Andrew 
 Lauder and Janet, dau. of Andrew Ramsay of Polton) advocate 1668, counsel 
 to the Duke of Monmouth at his trial 1686, appointed an ordinary lord of 
 session as Lord Fountainhall at the revolution 1689, and a lord of justiciary 
 1690, declined the appointment of lord advocate 1692; created a baronet of 
 Nova Scotia, 25th Jan., 1690, with remainder to his issue male ; d. 20 Sept. 
 1722, and had issue, ancestor of Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder. 
 
 John (sir) of Haltovm — Edinburghshire, 1685-6, 1689 conv., 1689-93 (as 
 Sir John Maitland of Ravelrig), 1693, until he succeeded as Earl of 
 Lauderdale, s.b. 28 Aug. 1696. 
 
 Sir John Maitland of Ravelrig, 5th Earl of Lauderdale (on the death of 
 his brother Richard, 1695), created a baronet of Nova Scotia, 18th Nov. 1680 
 advocate 30th July 1680, lord of session 28th Oct. 1689, as Lord Ravelrig! 
 P.O. at the Revolution, col. Edinburghshire militia 1689, took his seat in 
 parliament, 8th Sept. 1696, supported the Union, general of the mint 1699 
 (2nd son of Charles, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale by his wife Elizabeth, only dau. 
 and heir {sic) of Richard Lauder of Hattou), assumed the designation of ' ' Lauder 
 of Haltoun," 1693, in lieu of "Maitland of Ravelrig"; d. 30th Aug. 1710, 
 having m. Margaret, only child of Alexander Cunningham, 10th Earl of Glen- 
 cairn, she died 12th May, 1742, leaving with other issue a son Charles, 6th Earl. 
 
 Maurice — Dunbar, 1585. 
 
 Eobert — North Berwick, 1600. 
 
 Thomas— North Berwick, 1579-1583—1612, 1617. 
 
 William, bailie of Edinburgh— 1528. 
 
 William —Lauder, 1649. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XXX. 
 
 From " Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh," A.D. 14.03-1528. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1869. 
 
 LIST OF PROVOSTS, BAILIES, &o. OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1369. William de Lawedre, Bailie (9th January). 
 
 1403. James of Lawder . . . Will of Lawder, Duodene Burgi (3rd October). 
 
 1411. George de Lawdre, Bailie (2nd July). 
 
 1413. George of Lawedre, Prepositus (27th February). 
 
 1427. George de Laweder, Prepositus (6th June). 
 
 1430. George de Lauder, Provost. 
 
 1433. Alan de Lawedre, Bailie (20th February). 
 
 1437. Alan de Laweder, Bailie (4th June). 
 
 1437-8. George de Laweder, of the Council (13th February). 
 
 1481. Johne of Lawder, . . . Great Dusane and Deacons. 
 
 1492. John Lawder, of the Council (6th October). 
 
 1500. Alexander Lauder, Provost (22nd April 8th December). 
 
 1501. Alexander Lauder, Provost (22nd April and 8th December). 
 
 1502. Alexander Lauder, Prepositus (17th January). 
 
 1503. Alexander Lauder, Provost (11th March). 
 
 1504. Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Prepositus (16th and 22nd April). 
 1505-6. Alexander Lauder, Provost (October; 17th Jany.). 
 
 1506. Alexander Lauder, Prepositus (13th August). 
 
 1507. Alexander Lauder, Prepositus (13th and 23rd March). 
 
 1508 9. Alexander Lauder, Provost (27th May), and Justice Depute (16th June and 
 26th January). 
 
 1509. Alexander Lauder, Prepositus (30th May, 1 9tli July, 10th October, and 
 
 26th January). 
 
 1510. Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost (11th October and 27th February). 
 
 1511. Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost (24th April, 20th May, 1st 
 
 January and 27th February). 
 
 1512. Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Provost and JusticeDepute (27th April, 
 
 28th September, 5th November, 9th December, and 8th January). 
 
 1513. Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth,* Prepositus and Justice Depmte (5th 
 
 April). 
 
 1519. William Lauder, Bailie (28th February). 
 
 1520. William Lauder, Bailie (20th April). 
 Gilbert Lauder, Bailie (15th November). 
 
 1521. Gilbert Lauder, Bailie (15th April). 
 1527. William Lauder (11th December). 
 
 1527-8. William Lauder, Bailie (7th October to 25th September). 
 
 1532-3. William Lauder, Bailie (11th October to 25th September). 
 
 * Sir Alexander Lauder was slain at Flodden on 9th September, 1513. — Craufurd's Memoirs 
 of Haltoun, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 1532-3. Gilbert Lauder, Dean of Guild. 
 
 1534-5. Gilbert Lauder, . . . of the Council. 
 
 1536. Gilbert Lauder, Walter Lauder, . . . Men of Gfude (31st May), whether 
 
 councillors or not does not appear. 
 
 1537. Gilbert Lauder, of the Council (10th April). 
 1539. Gilbert Lauder, of the Council (6th August). 
 
 NO. XXXI. 
 
 From " Extracts from the Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs" (1295-1711), 
 Dr. Marwick. Edin. 1880. 
 
 Northberweik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervick, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northberwick, 
 
 Northberwick, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northberuik, 
 
 Northberuik, 
 
 Northberuik, 
 
 North Bervik, 
 
 Northberuik, 
 
 Northberuik, 
 
 Northe Beruik, 
 
 Northbervick, 
 
 Northberuik, 
 
 North e beruik, 
 
 Northberwik, 
 
 Northberwik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 North berwick, • 
 
 A Convention Minute is signed ) 
 by Ihonn Quhitlaw, one of the > 
 bailzies of - - - I 
 
 Iohne Quhytlaw, commissar, 
 
 Thomas Lawder, commissionar, - 
 
 Tliomas Lawder, commissioner, - 
 
 Iohnn Spens, - 
 
 Thomas Lauder, - - - - 
 
 Thomas Lawder (signed Lauder), - 
 
 Hew Eaillie, - 
 
 Ihone Spens, - 
 
 Thomas Lawder, baillie, 
 
 Thomas Lawder, 
 
 Thomas Lawder (sig. Lauder), 
 
 Robert Olevar (sig. Olifeir), 
 
 Hew Baillie — Robert Olipher, 
 
 Robert Oliver, .... 
 
 Thomas Lauder, - 
 
 Thomas Lauder, - 
 
 Tbomas Lawder, - - - - 
 
 Thomas Lauder, - 
 
 Robert Lauder, - 
 
 Hew Bailzie, .... 
 
 Thomas Lawder,- ... 
 
 Thomas Lawder, - 
 
 Thomas Lawder, - 
 
 George Baillie, - 
 
 George Baillie (baillie), 
 Thomas Lauder, - 
 George Baillie, - 
 
 Edinburgh, 4th April, 1552. 
 
 Dundee, - 
 
 Stirling, - 
 
 Dundee, - 
 
 Glasgow, - 
 
 Stirling, - 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Linlithgow, 
 
 Haddingt'n, 
 
 Cupar, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Aberdeen, - 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Dysart, 
 
 Stirling, - 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Kinghorn, - 
 
 Haddingt'n, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Cupar, 
 
 Crail, 
 
 Stirling, - 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 18th Sept., 1555. 
 
 18th July, 1578. 
 
 1st Oct., 1578. 
 
 24th Eeb., 1579. 
 
 5th August, 1579. 
 
 October, 1579. 
 
 17th April, 1581. 
 
 17th Oct., 1581. 
 10th June, 1583. 
 13th July, 1584. 
 12th July, 1585. 
 
 2nd May, 1586. 
 
 30th Oct., 1587. 
 
 8th June, 1590. 
 23rd Jan., 1592. 
 11th June, 1593. 
 27th June, 1594. 
 
 4th July, 1597. 
 13th June, 1C00. 
 
 5th July, 1603. 
 24th April, 1604. 
 14th June, 1609. 
 
 4th July, 1609. 
 
 3rd July, 1610. 
 
 2nd July, 1611. 
 
 23rd Oct., 1612. 
 
 14th Sept, 1613. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Northberuick, 
 Northberwick, 
 
 Northberwick, 
 
 Northberwick, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northbervik, 
 
 Northberuik; 
 
 Alexander Lauder, 
 Alexander Home, 
 Alexander Home, 
 Alexander Home, 
 John Hoome, 
 John Home, 
 John Home, 
 John Home, 
 Archibald Lauder, 
 John Home (1 Home), 
 Archibald Lauder, 
 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 Edinburgh, 
 
 28th March, 
 6th July, 
 4th July, 
 4th July, 
 3rd July, 
 2nd July, 
 7th July, 
 4th July, 
 2nd July, 
 1st July, 
 3rd July, 
 
 1626. 
 1669. 
 1676. 
 1682. 
 1694. 
 1695. 
 1696. 
 1699. 
 1700. 
 1701. 
 1705. 
 
 Lawder, - - Gilbert Lawder is " commissar," - Edinburgh, 17th Oct., 1575. 
 
 Lawder, - - Andro Lawder, - Edinburgh, 20th Jan., 1575. 
 
 Lauder, - - Andro Lauder, - Edinburgh, 24th April, 1577. 
 
 Lawder, - - Androw Lawder, - - Edinburgh, 3rd May, 1577. 
 
 Lawder, - - Androw Lawder, - - - Edinburgh, 17th April, 1581. 
 
 Lawder, - - Androw Lawder (zounger), - - Edinburgh, 17th Oct., 1581. 
 
 Lawder, - - Androw Lawder, - - Ayr, - - 10th June, 1583. 
 
 Lawder, - - lames Lawder, - Edinburgh, 30th Oct., 1587. 
 
 Lawder, - - Chairlis Lawder, - - Edinburgh, 29th July, 1607. 
 
 Lawder, - - Alexander Home, - - Edinburgh, 6th July, 1686. 
 
 Lauder, - ■ Charles Lauder, - - - - Edinburgh, 3rd July, 1694. 
 
 Lauder, - -' George Lauder, - Edinburgh, 4th July, 1710. 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dunbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dunbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Dumbar, 
 
 Moreis Lauder, - v - - - Stirling, - 5th August, 1579. 
 
 Maurise Lawder, - - - Glasgow, - 23rd Feb., 1579. 
 
 Moreis Lawder, - Edinburgh, 17th Oct., 1581. 
 
 Eobert Lauder (sig. Lawder), - Perth, • 15th June, 1582. 
 
 William Lawder, - - - Edinburgh, 7th Dec, 1582. 
 
 Eobert Lawder, - - - - Ayr, - - 10th June, 1583. 
 
 Robert Lawder, - Linlithgow, 13th July, 1584. 
 
 Henry Lauder, - Dundee, - 5th July, 1606. 
 
 James Lauder, - Edinburgh, 3rd July, 1655. 
 
 James Lauder, - - - - Edinburgh, 29th May, 1660. 
 
 James Lauder, "- Edinburgh, 18th June, 1663. 
 
 James Lauder, - Edinburgh, 14th Oct., 1669. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XXXII. 
 
 RETOURS OP SERVICE. 
 
 From " Inquisitiones Generales." Edin., 1811. 
 
 No. 49. 11 tli Oct., 1600. — Gilbert Lawder, heir of Gilbert Lawder, his 
 father. 
 
 No. 557. 15th July, 1613. — George Lauder of Bass, heir of George Lauder 
 of Bass, his father. 
 
 Nos. 763 and 764. — Samuel Lawder, heir of Edmond Lawder, his father. — 
 11th July, 1618. 
 
 No. 1132. 22nd April, 1624.— Bichard Lauder, Besidenter in Pirn, son of 
 William Lauder, heir of Bichard Lauder of that Ilk, his uncle. 
 
 Note. — There is a place called Pirn in Peeblesshire, and probably this Eichard Lauder's 
 residence was there. 
 
 No. 2059. 26th June, 1634. — Alexander Lauder, Quhitsornewolt, heir 
 portioner of Alexander Bohison, his uncle hy his mother's side. 
 
 Note. — This place of Quhitsomewolt is doubtless "Whitsome " in Berwickshire. 
 
 No. 2364. 23rd May, 1638. — Bobert Lauder, burgess in Lauder, heir of 
 Catherine Lauder, his sister. 
 
 No. 3383. — Helen Wright, wife of William Lauder, heir portioner of James 
 Wright of Gladswood, her father. — 18th December, 1647. 
 
 No. 5827. — Catherine Lauder, heiress of Bobert Lauder, Deputy Town 
 Clerk of Dundee, her father. — 21st August, 1675. 
 
 No. 6381. 12th April, 1682. — James Lawder, son of George Lawder, burgess 
 in Dunbar, heir of Ann Hopper, daughter of James Hopper of Bomhouse, his mother. 
 
 No. 6596. — William Lauder, heir of Mr. John Lauder, Edinburgh, his father. 
 —11th Dec, 1684. 
 
 No. 6675. — William Lauder, heir of John Lauder, his father. — 17th October, 
 1685. 
 
 No. 6703. 22nd Jan., 1686. — Agnes Lauder, heiress of John Lauder, in 
 Calder, her father. 
 
 No. 7538. 22nd November, 1694.— Helen Forrest, daughter of David Eorrest 
 of Gimmers Mylnes, by Bobina Lauder, his spouse, heir portioner of Bobert Lauder 
 of Gunsgreen. 
 
 Note. — Gimmers Mills is near Haddington. Gunsgreen is near Eyemouth — a few miles 
 from Dunbar. 
 
 No. 7689. 2nd April, 1696. — Lady Margaret Lauder, wife of Sir Alex. 
 Seton of Pitmedden, bart., daughter of William Lauder and Katherine Hunter — 
 heiress of the said William Lauder, one of the Clerks of Session — her father. 
 
 No. 8196. 23rd Jan., 1700. — John Lauder, heir of Colin Lauder, merchant, 
 burgess in Edinburgh. 
 
 No 8239. 13th Aug., 1700. — Elizabeth Lauder, heiress of John Lauder. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 From " Inquisitiones Speciales." Edin., 1811. 
 
 Haddingtonshire — No. 31. 27th Feb., 1606. — Kobert Lauder, heir of George 
 Lauder of Tyningham, his father, in certain properties. 
 
 Haddingtonshire— No. 111. 20th Jan., 1625. — George Lauder, heir of 
 "William Lauder, burgess in Dunbar, his father, in 6£ acres of land in said 
 burgh. 
 
 Haddingtonshire— No. 226. 18th Aug., 1652. — Sara Tod, heir portioner of 
 William Lauder and James Lauder, her mother's brothers, "in two-third pairts of 
 hous in burgh of Dumbar," &c. 
 
 Haddingtonshire — No. 371. 1st Feb. 1692. — Helen Lauder, daughter of 
 Robert Laueer of Gunsgreen, wife of James Lauder of Haddington, &c, &c, to 
 certain property in Haddington. 
 
 Edinburghshire — No. 49. llth Oct , 160P— Gilbert Lawder, heir of provision 
 of Margaret Lawder, daughter of Gilbert Lawder, sometime merchant and burgess 
 in Edinburgh, &c, &c, in certain feu duties in said burgh. 
 
 Edinburghshire — No. 50. llth Oct., 1600. — Gilbert Lawder, heir of James 
 Lauder, son of deceased Gilbert Lauder, &c. 
 
 Edinburghshire — No. 222. 26th May, 1607. — Agnes Lawder, spouse of David 
 Lindsay, Edinburgh, heir portioner of her sister Margaret Lawder. 
 
 Edinburghshire — No. 223. 26th May, 1607. — Klizabeth Lauder, spouse of 
 Hugh Somerville in Lochend, heir portioner of Marg' Lauder, her sister. 
 
 Edinburghshire — No. 541. — Richard Lauder, heir of Alexander Lauder, 
 feudatory of Haltoun, his brother-german, in lands of Haltoun, barony of Ratho — 
 also in certain property at Cringletie in Peeblesshire, &c. 
 
 Berwickshire — No. 12. 7th April, 1585. — Robert Lauder of that Ilk, heir of 
 Robert Lauder of that Ilk, his uncle, in certain lands, &c, (forest of Lauder, &c). 
 
 Berwickshire — No. 98. 14th July, 1614. — Robert Lauder of that Ilk, heir 
 of Robert Lauder of that Ilk, his uncle, in certain lands, &c. 
 
 Berwickshire — No. 101. 7th Nov., 1615. — Robert Lauder of Murcleuch, 
 heir of James Lauder of Murcleuch, his father, in lands situated in the bailiery of 
 
 Lauderdale. 
 
 Note. — Muircleueh is three miles from Lauder. 
 
 Berwickshire— No. 131. 4th Sept., 1623. — Robert Lauder of that Ilk, heir 
 of Robert Lauder of that Ilk, his father, in lands at Lauder, &c. 
 
 Berwickshire — No. 135. 1st July, 1624. — George Lauder, heir of William 
 Lauder, burgess in Dunbar, lands of Derrington. 
 
 Berwickshire — No. 309. 26th Aug., 1658. — Isobel Lauder of that Ilk, heir 
 (sic) of Robert Lauder of that Ilk, her father, in certain lands, &c, in Lauder. 
 
 Berwickshire — No. 414. 1st Nov., 1683. — Margaret, Anna, Christina, and 
 Isobella Home, heirs portioner (sic) of Isobella Lauder, spouse of Alex. Home, one 
 of the Bailies of Lauder — their mother — in certain property in Lauderdale. 
 
 Kirkcudbrightshire — No. 25. 25th Oct., 1556. — Henry Lauder, advocate, 
 heir of Gilbert Lauder, burgess in Edinburgh, his father, in certain lands of old 
 entent, &c. 
 
 Lanarkshire — No. 62. 6th May, 1606. — Alex. Lauder of Haltoun, heir of 
 Alex. Lauder of Halton, his uncle, in certain lands in barony of Wiston. 
 
xl APPENDIX. 
 
 Peeblesshire — No. 21. 14th April, 1603. — Alex. Lawder of Halton, heir of 
 Alex. Lawder of Halton, who died at the battle of Pinkie, in certain lands, &c. 
 
 Peeblesshire — No. 67. 18th May, 1625. — Richard Lauder, heir of 
 Alexander Lauder of Halton, his brother, in certain lands in Peeblesshire. 
 
 Peeblesshire — No. 137. 21st June, 1655. — John Lauder of Hethpool, heir 
 of Alexander Lauder of Hethpool, his giiidshi.r in the lands of Hethpool, parochin 
 of Peebles. 
 
 Eoxburghshire — No, 253. 31st March, 1670. — Elizabeth Scott and Anna 
 Scott, the latter being spouse to Charles Lauder — served heirs (sic) to George 
 Scott, brother of Sir Walter Scott of Whiteslaid, their father. 
 
 Selkirkshire — No. 42. 20th June, 1628. — Robert Lauder of that Ilk, heir 
 of Robert Lauder of that Ilk, his great-grandfather, in estate of Sunderland. 
 
 NO. XXXIII. 
 
 From "Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland." Edin., 1S63. 
 
 Lauder, Eliz., to her father, John Lauder, Lieutenant of Capt. Strachan's Troop of 
 
 Dragoons. Heir General. — Dated 13th Aug., 1700. 
 Helen, to her brother, William Lauder, son of John Lauder, writer in 
 
 Edinburgh. Heir General.— Dated 12th Sept., 1702. 
 John, to his father, Colin Lauder, merchant burgess in Edinburgh. Heir 
 
 General.— Dated 23rd Jan., 1700. 
 Robert, son of J. Lauder, coppersmith in Edinburgh, to his grandmother, 
 
 Marion Langlands or Henderson in Bo'ness. Heir General. — 
 
 Recorded 6th June, 1709. 
 Walter, to his father, Charles Lauder, clerk of the Burgh of Lauder. Heir 
 
 General.— Dated 27th Dec, 1707. 
 William, of Wyuepark, to his grandfather, George Scott, brother of Sir 
 
 W. Scott of Whiteslid. Heir General.— 18th Aug., 1705. 
 Andrew, to his father, Andrew Lauder, writer in Edinburgh. Heir of Pro- 
 vision General.— Dated 16th Jan., 1718. 
 Archibald, to his father, Sir Robert Lauder of Beilmouth. Heir General. 
 
 —22nd April, 1710. 
 Catherine, (or Mouat), widow of Mouat of Balquholly, to her mother, 
 
 Euphan Bathgate, wife of Rt. Lauder, Dep. Clerk, Dundee. Heir 
 
 General. — Recorded June 23rd, 1718. 
 Charles, writer, Edinburgh, to his father, Provost James Lauder, Sheriff 
 
 Clerk of Haddington. Heir General. — 2nd Oct., 1718. 
 Elizabeth, (or Scott), widow of Charles Lauder, Town Clerk of Lauder, to 
 
 her brother, John Scott, portr., of Jedburgh. Heir General. — 17th 
 
 June, 1718. 
 George, merchant in Edinburgh, to his brother, Robert Lauder of Rose 
 
 Craig. Heir General.— 23rd Feb., 1723. 
 
APPENDIX. xli 
 
 Lauder, James, to his father, George Lauder in Melvellmill. Heir General. — 2nd 
 July, 1726. 
 John (Sir), of Fountainhall, to his father, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, 
 
 a Lord of Session. Heir General. — 14th May, 1723. 
 Eobert, to his brother, Alex. Lauder, son of Sir John Lauder of Fountain- 
 hall, bart. Heir of Prov. General.— 16th April, 1724. 
 
 William, to his father, William Lauder, doctor of medicine, who died 1724. 
 Heir Special, in 7000 merks, over the lands and barony of Eymouth, 
 mains and lands of Wedderburn, &c, Berwickshire. — Dated 10th 
 July, 1729. 
 
 Andrew (Sir), of Fountainhall, bart., to his father, Sir John Lauder of Foun- 
 tainhall, bart., who died Feb., 1728. Heir male of Taillie and Provi- 
 sion Special, in the Barony of Fountainhall, including East and West 
 Templehall, Huntlaw, and Edinburghshire. — Recorded Oct. 27, 1731. 
 
 Colin, to his uncle, William Lauder, surgeon, son of Colin Lauder, 
 merchant in Edinburgh. Heir General. — Dated 7th Jan., 1738. 
 
 Colin, Surgeon in Handysyde's Begt. of Foot, to his father, John Lauder, 
 Surgeon, Edinburgh. Heir General. — Dated 7th Jan., 1738. 
 
 George, of Pitscandlie, to his father, Sir Eobert Lauder of Beilmouth. Heir 
 male and of Prov. General. — 22nd Jan., 1730. 
 
 Jean, to her father, David Lauder of Huntlywood, Advocate. Heir Por- 
 tioner General. — 14th July, 1730. 
 
 Margaret (or Sandilands), wife of Mark Sandilands, merchant, Edinburgh, 
 to her father, John Lauder, minister at Eccles. Heir General. — 
 2nd Aug., 1738. 
 
 Marion, to her father, David Lauder of Huntlywood, Advocate. Heir Por- 
 tioner General. — 14th July, 1730. 
 
 Marjory (or Hendry), wife of Eobert Lauder, jun., of Beilmouth, to her 
 father, John Hendry, shoemaker, Edinburgh. Heir Port. General. — 
 Dated 28th Jan., 1735. 
 
 Charles, -writer in Edinburgh, to his father, James Lauder, Provost and 
 Sheriff Clerk of Haddington, who died July, 1696. Heir Special 
 in 10,000 merks over the lands and mains of Wauchtoun, Hadding- 
 tonshire.— 12th Oct., 1741. 
 
 John, to his father, John Lauder, coppersmith in Edin. Heir General. — 
 2nd April, 1747. 
 
 Mary (or Forbes), wife of Colin Lauder, military surgeon, to her grand- 
 mother, Jean Smith or Heriot in Edinburgh. Heir General. — 
 Dated 22nd July, 1741. 
 
 Charlotte, to her father, Charles Lauder, writer in Edinburgh. Heir Port. 
 General. — 19th June, 1755. 
 
 Isabel, to her father, Charles Lauder, writer in Edinburgh. Heir Port. 
 General. — 19th June, 1755. 
 
 George, a burgess of Lauder, to his father, William Lauder, burgess, and 
 late a Bailie of Lauder. Heir General.— 27th March, 1765. 
 
 George, baker, burgess of Lauder, to his mother, Margaret Thyne. Heir 
 General,— 27th March,, 1765.. 
 F 
 
xlii APPENDIX. 
 
 Lauder, James, to his father, John Lauder of Carolside. Heir General. — 25th 
 
 Nov., 1768. 
 William (or Maxwell), son of G. Lauder, writer, Dumfries, to his god- 
 father and godmother Robert and Esther Maxwell of Killylung. 
 
 Heir of Prov. General —19th March, 1762. 
 Janet (or M'Clellan), to her brother Robert, son of Robert M'Clellan, 
 
 gardener, Summerhall. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 25th March, 
 
 1779. 
 Colin, surgeon in Edinburgh, to his sister, Mary Lauder. Heir General. — 
 
 8th Feb., 1787. 
 James, of Carolside, to his mother, Agnes Adam, widow of John Lauder 
 
 of Carolside. Heir General.— 11th March, 1788. 
 Margaret (or Crawford), in Dublin, to her sister, Euphemia Crawford, 
 
 widow of Robert Gray, Merchant, Edinburgh. Heir General. — 
 
 30th July, 1783. 
 "William, weaver in Harehead, to his brother, James Lauder, tailor in Edin- 
 burgh. Heir General.— 11th March, 1788. 
 Alexander, smith in North Berwick, to his brother, John Lauder, smith, 
 
 there. Heir General.— 12th Sept., 1793. 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to her grandfather, 
 
 John Milne, founder there. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 14th Feb., 
 
 1792. 
 Francis, son of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to his grandfather, John 
 
 Milne, founder there. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 14th Feb., 1792. 
 George, son of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to his grandfather, John 
 
 Milne, founder there. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 14th Feb., 1792. 
 John, son of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to his grandfather, John 
 
 Milne, founder there. Coheir of Prov. General. — 14th Feb., 
 
 1792. 
 Lucy, daughter of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to her grandfather, 
 
 John Milne, founder there. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 14th Feb., 
 
 1792. 
 Mary (or Sutherland), widow of the Rev. F. Lauder, Fredericktown, U.S., 
 
 to her aunt, Marjory Stuart, Canongate. Heir Portioner General. 
 
 —23rd December, 1795. 
 Rose, daughter of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to her grandfather, 
 
 John Milne, founder there. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 14th Feb., 
 
 1792. 
 William, son of Colin Lauder, surgeon, Edinburgh, to his grandfather, John 
 
 Milne, founder there. Co-heir of Prov. General. — -14th Feb., 1792. 
 Lawder, Elizabeth (or Cunningham), wife of J. Cunningham of Woodhall, to her 
 
 brother, Archibald Lawder of Edingtoun. Heir Portioner General. 
 
 —Recorded 4th Sept., 1705. 
 Lauder, Elizabeth (or Cunningham), wife of J. Cunningham of Woodhall, to her 
 
 brother, Sir George Lauder of Idingtoun, who died June, 1700. 
 
 Heir portioner of Line and Conqt. Special in Idingtoun, and fishings 
 
 on Whytewater, &c. — Berwickshire, 2nd Oct., 1705. 
 
APPENDIX. xliii 
 
 Lawdbr, Margaret (or Fairholin), wife of J. Fairholme of Babertone, to her brother, 
 
 Archibald Lawder of Edingtoim. Heir Port. General. — Keeorded 
 
 4th Sept., 1705. 
 Lauder, Margaret (or Fairholra), wife of J. Fairholm of Babertoun, to her brother, 
 
 Sir George Lauder of Idingtoun, who died June, 1700. Heir port. 
 
 of Line and Conqt. Special in Idington, and fishings on the Whyte- 
 
 water, &c. — Berwickshire, 2nd Oct., 1705. 
 Lawder, John, to his father, Alexander Lauder, Procurator and Writer in Edinburgh. 
 
 Heir General.— 6th Oct., 1742. 
 William, to his father, George Lawder, surgeon in Edinburgh. Heir 
 
 General.— 16th March, 1753. 
 Andrew (Sir), Dick of Fountainhall, Bart., to his father, Sir Andrew 
 
 Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., who died March, 1769. Heir male of 
 
 tail., prov. sp. in Templehall, &c, Haddingtonshire ; and parts of 
 
 the barony of Cranstoun, Edinburghshire. — 14th April, 1777. 
 Andrew, Sir (Dick), of Fountainhall, Bart., to his mother, Dame Isabella 
 
 Dick-Lawder, wife of Sir Andrew Lauder. Heir General. — 24th 
 
 March, 1779. 
 James, in Burnside of Drumblade, to his grandfather, John Dawney, 
 
 merchant in Auchterless. Heir of Prov. General. — 23rd July, 1777. 
 Agnes (or Adam), widow of John Lauder of Carolside, to her brother, John 
 
 Adam of Whitslade. Heir General.— 18th Jan., 1781. 
 Moffat, William, son of William Moffat, merchant, Edinburgh, to Mary Lauder, 
 
 first wife of the said Wm. Moffat. Heir of Prov. General. — 24th 
 
 June, 1771. 
 Lauder, Jean (or Amos), wife of Geo. Amos, labourer, Jock's Lodge, to her father, 
 
 Andrew Lauder in Hamilton. Heir Port. General. — 30th Dec, 
 
 1801. 
 May (or Muir), wife of Alex. Muir, coalmaster, in Culross, to her father, 
 
 Andrew Lauder, Hamilton. Heir Port. General. — 30th Dec, 1801. 
 Kutherford, James, Edinburgh, to his mother, Agnes Lauder, wife of Henry 
 
 Kutherford Qf Hunthill. Co-heir of Prov. General. — 30th April, 
 
 1804. 
 Venner, Corrybine Morris, captain of an East Indiaman, to his uncle, James Lauder 
 
 of Whitslaid, who died Jan., 1799. Heir Port. General, in Whitslaid, 
 
 Kedfoordgreen, and Drycleughshiells, Selkirkshire. — 17th Sept., 
 
 1800. 
 Venner, John Lauder, of Whitslaid, to his granduncle, John Adam of Whitslaid. 
 
 Heir Portioner General. — 19th June, 1805. 
 Venner, John Lauder, above designed, to his brother, Corrybine Morris Venner of 
 
 Whitslaid, who died 29th Nov., 1803. Heir Special, in half of 
 
 Whitslaid, Kedfoordgreen, and Drycleughshiells, Selkirkshire.— 
 
 Dated 11th Sept., 1805. 
 Venner, John Lauder, above designed, to his granduncle, John Adam of Whitslaid, 
 
 who died Sept., 1780. Heir Portioner Special, in Whitslaid, 
 
 Kedfoordgreen, and Drycleughshiells, Selkirkshire. — Dated 25th 
 
 Dec, 1799. 
 
xliv APPENDIX, 
 
 NO. XXXIV. 
 
 QUARREL WOOD, now called QUARRYWOOD. 
 
 From " History of the Province of Moray," Lachlan Shaw. 3 vols. Glasgow, 1882. 
 
 This estate, in its present bounds, is much more extensive than it was in ancient 
 times. ... In old writings it is written " Querelwode," " Correilwod," and 
 " Quarelwode" ; and, as it had this name before there were quarries in the hill, it may- 
 be somewhat difficult to ascertain the meaning of the word. The word " Quarrel " 
 in old writings, sometimes means a quarry of stones; it also sometimes stands for 
 game, or the engines by which game is killed. . . . The first proprietor of 
 Quarrelwood, of whom we have any distinct account, is Sir Eobert Lauder or 
 Lavedre. His father, also Sir Eobert, was Justiciary of Lothian, and Ambassador to 
 England, in the time of Eing Eobert Brace, and engaged in similar service for King 
 David Bruce. Both father and son seem to have ,been present at the battle of 
 Halidon Hill, in 1333, after which fatal event the younger Sir Eobert, being 
 Justiciary of the North, hastened to occupy the Castle of Urquhart, on Loch Ness, 
 one of the few fortalices which held out against the power of Edward of England. 
 It is supposed that at this time he acquired the lands of Quarrelwood, Grieshop, 
 Brightmony, and Kinsteary, which continued to be possessed by his descendants, in 
 the female line, for many generations. He designates himself as "Eobertus de Lavadre, 
 Dominus de Quarrelwood, in Moravia." This Eobert Lauder obtained a charter from 
 John Pilmore, Bishop of Moray, for good services, of the half davoch lands of 
 Aberbreachy, and the lands of Auchmunie, within the Barony of Urquhart, for pay- 
 ment of four ruerks yearly, dated at Elgin, in the feast of St. Nicholas, 1333. He 
 founded a chaplainry in the Cathedral Church of Moray . . . for his own soul, 
 and those of his ancestors and successors. The deed is dated at Dunfermline the 
 1st May, 1362, which gift is confirmed by a writ from King David Bruce, dated at 
 Elgin, the 10th May, in the 38th year of his reign. Sir Eobert Lauder is said to 
 have had a family of sons and daughters. One daughter was married to Sir Eobert 
 Chisholm, and her father conveyed to her, or her husband, in her right, the lands of 
 Quarrelwood, Kinsteary, Brightmony and others. He had a daughter, Janet, married 
 to Hugh Rose of Kilravock, to whom he conveyed various lands in Strathnairn. He 
 is supposed to have had no heir-male of his own body, and to have been succeeded by 
 his brother, John Chisholm, who was again succeeded by his son, Eobert, who had a 
 daughter and only child, Morella, proprietor of the lands of Quarrelwood, &c, — the 
 heir-male of the Chisholms succeeding to the paternal estate in Strathglass. Morella 
 Chisholm married Alexander Sutherland, third laird of Dufl'us, of that name, who_ 
 thereupon added to his armorial bearings a boar's head erased, being part of the arms 
 of Chisholm. 
 
 Re Pluscarden Priory. — Eobert de Chisholm, who was Lord of Quarrywood, 
 near Elgin, refused to pay multures to the Prior. . . . Quarrywood is in the 
 parish of Spynie, and is so called from a rich quarry of freestone in these lands. - It 
 belonged in 1365 to Sir Eobert Lauder, whose grandson, Sir Eobert de Chesholme, 
 then Constable of Urquhart Castle, in January, 1365,- married his daughter to Eose 
 of Kilravock. Shaw wonders that Sir Eobert could he alive when his great-grand- 
 
APPENDIX. xlv 
 
 ■daughter was married, but the Landers of the Bass were a stout race, and he was not 
 ■only alive, but able to enter into a deed with his grandson in 1366. 
 
 From " History of the Religious House of Pluscardyn " (in Moray). 1S81. 
 The Chisholms of Roxburgh had married into the family of Quarrelwood. . . . 
 
 NO. XXXV. 
 
 From " Hatton House." Edin. 1875. 
 
 Among the original deeds of Hatton was " an confirmation granted by Kobert, 
 King of Scots, to John of Halton of the Town and Lands of Halton, dated and 
 sealed at Skoone, 11th June, 1374." . . . In the same year the king gifted to 
 Allan de Lawdre " Ten Pounds sterling yearly during the king's pleasure, as the said 
 Allan's sallary for being Justiciary-Clerk upon the south side of the Water of Perth." 
 . . . It was this Allan de Lawdre or Lauder (who was also Constable or 
 Keeper of Tantallon) who, three years later — i.e., in 1377 — purchased the estate from 
 John de Hatton. Sir Allan de Lawdre died soon after 1400, and was succeeded by 
 his son William, " in all his lands and heritages in the shires of Edinburgh, Berwick, 
 and Peebles;" and in 1442 we find Alexander Lauder served heir of his father 
 William. . . . Alexander must have died before 1451, for in that year we find 
 William Lauder of Hatton prominent in connection with the assassination of Douglas 
 
 by James the Second in Stirling Castle Sir George Lauder, who succeeded 
 
 in 1507, and two of his brothers, fell with their king at Flodden. One of the 
 brothers was named James, the other is styled Sir Alexander Lauder of Blyth. In 
 consideration of his father's and uncle's services and daaths in battle, Sir George's 
 son, again a William Lawdre of Haltoun, obtained from James the Fifth " the relief 
 of all his lands lying in the shires of Edinburgh, Berwick, and Peebles," date 19th 
 
 July, 1515 In 1585, there is an Act " for annulland the infeftments 
 
 maid to Gilbert Lauder of Balbardeis and his sone of the landis and leving of 
 Haltoun," and it recites the complaints of Alexander Lauder, son and heir of Sir 
 William Lauder of Haltoun, in which he avers that the aforesaid Gilbert Lauder, 
 practising upon the simplicity of his father, the proprietor of Haltoun, had induced 
 him by a pretended sale to convey to him as his eldest son William the lands and 
 baronies of Haltoun, etc., to the exclusion of his son Alexander the complainer. 
 
 This Sir Alexander Lauder married Mary Maitland, a daughter of Sir Richard 
 Maitland of Thirlestane and Lethington, thus connecting the two families of Maitland 
 and Lauder two generations before the one merged in the other. Dying in 1610, 
 he was succeeded by his son, also Alexander, who in 1621 was one of the Com- 
 missioners under James the Sixth "for the plantation of kirks where kirks is yet 
 implanted." 
 
xlvi APPENDIX. 
 
 This Sir Alexander was succeeded in 1625 by his brother Richard, who had two 
 daughters, the eldest of whom was married in 1650 to Elphingstone of Calderhall, to 
 whom he gave money, and settled his whole estate upon Mr. Charles Maitland, his 
 wife, and their heirs, in their contract of marriage in 1653. It was by this marriage, 
 which was celebrated at Hatton in February of that year, of Charles Maitland, 
 younger brother of the Duke of Lauderdale, and his successor as Earl, to Elizabeth 
 Lauder, that the property of Hatton became one of the chief possessions of the 
 
 Lauderdale family. 
 
 NO. XXXVI. 
 
 From "A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock." Edin., 1848. 
 
 Kilravock Fourth. — The last Hugh dying, was succeeded by his sone Hugh, 
 third of that name, and fourth in the familie. 
 
 I finde him mentioned in a contract matrimoniall betwixt him and Joneta de 
 Chesholme, daughter to Sir Robert Chesholme, constable of the castle of Urquhart. 
 He was also Chesholme of that Ilk, and in right of his mother, daughter to Sir Robert 
 Lauder, succeeded to Quarrellwood, Kinsterie, Brightmannie, &c. 
 
 In this contract the following is found : — Preterea idem dominus Robertus manu- 
 capit firmiter quod apponet suam diligentem intimam et fidelem curam modo quo 
 poterit cum omnibus viribus suis, ad procurandum statum hereditabilem de prenomi- 
 natis terris de Cantrabundie cum pertinentijs de domino Roberto de Lauder avo suo. 
 In casu quo idem dominus Robertus de Chesholme poterit obtinere statum heredita- 
 bilem de predicto domino Roberto de Lauder .... infeodabit predicturn 
 Hugonem in dicta terra de Cantra cum pertinentijs, in forma liberi maritagij. . . . 
 
 NO. XXXVII. 
 
 From Chambers' "Domestic Annals of Scotland," vol. II., page 20. Edin.. 1859. 
 
 Dec. 2, 1628. — George Lauder of the Bass, and his mother, " Dame Isobel Hep- 
 burn Lady Bass," were at this time in embarrassed circumstances, " standing at the 
 horn at the instance of divers of their creditors." Nevertheless, as was complained of 
 them, " they peaceably bruik and enjoy some of their rents, and remain within the 
 craig of the Bass, presuming to keep and maintein themselves, so to elude justice 
 and execution of the law." A Scotch laird and his mother holding out against 
 creditors in a tower on that inaccessible sea-rock, form rather a striking picture to 
 
APPENDIX. xlvii 
 
 the imagination. But debt even then had its power of exorcising romance. The 
 Lords of Council issued a proclamation, threatening George Lauder and his mother 
 with the highest pains if they did not submit to the laws. A friend then came 
 forward and represented to the lords "the hard and desolate estate" of the two rebels, 
 and obtained a protection for them, enabling them to come to Edinburgh to make 
 arrangements for the settlement of their affairs. — (Privy Council Records), 
 
 NO. XXXVIII. 
 
 THE BASS. 
 
 From " Bellenden's Boece," vol. I., cap. xxxvu. 
 
 Boece describes the Bass as " ane wounderful crag, risand within the see, with 
 sa narro and strait hals (passage) that na schip nor bait may arrive bot allanerlie 
 at ane part of it. This crag is callit the Bas ; unwinnabill be ingine of man. In it 
 ar coves, als proffi table for defence of men, as they were biggit be crafty industry." 
 
 From " Tlie New Statistical Account of Scotland," vol. II, p. 830. 16'J f 5. 
 
 Tlie Bass. — Facing Tantallan Castle on the north, in the mouth of the Frith, 
 about a mile and a-half from the shore, stands the immense rugged circular rock 
 called the Bass. It is fully a mile in circumference. It rises 420 feet above the 
 surface of the sea, and from the fathomed depth of the waters around, it may be 
 estimated about 600 feet in total height. On the north, it is peculiarly lofty and 
 precipitous, and stupenduously overawing. On the south, it is somewhat conical in 
 form sloping moderately down nearly to the base. It has been fancifully stated to 
 resemble in this aspect the spoon and knife and fork-box, such as used to grace our 
 family sideboards. Its superficies is guessed at seven acres. A caverned passage 
 penetrates through the rock from north-west to south-east, where the rock grandly 
 proiects perhaps, forty feet. The cavern is passable even at full-tide, if the sea be 
 calm. The Bass is inaccessible save on one flat shelvy point to the south-east ; the 
 south and the north side of this point are the only two landing-places. Commanding 
 this point, is a small fortalice at the extremity of the curtain. At one time, the 
 fortification could be reached only by ladders, or a bucket and chains, raised at the 
 crane bastion ; but afterwards, the ascent was by three flights of stairs within the 
 rampart, each protected by a strong gate : these inner gates have long ago disappeared. 
 The fort and the dungeons are all unroofed, and in ruins. Blackader's Cell is still 
 pointed out with its three small iron-barred windows to the west, and awakens many 
 a solemn sacred feeling. One solitary gun yet remains of the ancient defence, now 
 much corroded : the few other cannon on the Bass were brought thither from Leith 
 only in 1822, to salute George IV. on his visit to Scotland, when the southern land- 
 ing-place was somewhat prepared in the possibility of his Majesty landing there. 
 The King of Belgium visited the Bass in 1819. , ,_ 
 
xlviii APPENDIX. 
 
 About half-way up the acclivity of the rock, a little below the old effaced garden, 
 are the interesting remains of a chapel, pretty entire. The niches for the fonts shew 
 that it was built prior to the Eeformation. "When the Bass became the Bastile of 
 Scotland, the state-prison for the persecuted Covenanters, this chapel was desecrated 
 by being made the ammunition magazine for the garrison. 
 
 How early this island was tenanted by man, is quite unknown. It is tradition- 
 ally reported to have been a residence of Baldred, the apostle of East-Lothian, even 
 in the sixth centurj'. It is on authentic record, that it was inhabited in the beginn- 
 ing of the fifteenth century; for in 1406, Eobert III. placed his son on the Bass 
 (afterwards James I.) to be beyond the cruel machinations of his uncle, the Duke of 
 Albany, till a vesssl was procured to convey him to France ; and hence he embarked 
 in his memorable ill-fated voyage, which terminated in his nineteen years captivity 
 in England. It is familiar to our readers that he was treacherously way-laid b}' 
 directions of Henry IV., and captured off Flamborough Head : when the intelligence 
 was conveyed to his father in Eothesay, he sunk in bitterest anguish into an 
 immediate grave. 
 
 The Bass for many generations was the property of an ancient family, styled Lauder 
 of the Bass, one of whom is stated to have been a compatriot of Wallace. The family 
 residence, however, it is believed, was not on the Bass, but in the town of North 
 Berwick. A large flat stone in the desolated cemetery at the Auld Kirk, is said to 
 mark their burial-place. This family, it would seem, at length fell into decay, 
 and the Bass underwent various transferences. It was purchased by Government 
 in October, 1671, from Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall, for the sum of £4000. 
 Bigotry was then rampant, and tyranny was triumphant. The prisons of our 
 northern kingdom were gorged with the persecuted, and the Bass was converted into 
 a state-prison for the Covenanters under Charles II. It served this debased purpose 
 during the reigns of the last two deluded monarchs of the House of Stuart. It held 
 out for several years after the Revolution against the new dynasty, amidst numerous 
 and vigorous enterprises for its subjection, and was signalised as the last place in 
 Great Britain that yielded to the dominion of William III. In February, 1701, he 
 directed the fortifications to be demolished. Ultimately in 1706, the Bass was 
 granted by the crown to President Sir Hew Dalrymple for one Scots penny, reserv- 
 ing the power of refortifying the Bass, if Government at any time should think it 
 proper to do so. The fort and prison were afterwards dismantled. The walls remain 
 in naked desolation. . . . 
 
 The island is let to the keeper for £30 yearly, on a lease of nineteen years. He 
 resides at Canty Bay, an opposite hamlet on the shore, a mile and a-half from the 
 rock, where boats are always to be had in the season for the conveyance of visitors. 
 The best season for visiting the Bass is June and July, during the incubation of the 
 geese ; and the best hours are early in the morning or evening. The tenant of the 
 Bass alone possesses the key of the Castle ; and it is to the honour of the keeper to 
 record, that the Sabbath is kept inviolate, and on week days alone the Basa ia to ba 
 visited. 
 
 There are about seven acres of grassy surface on the rock, which afford pasture, 
 for about thirty sheep. The pasture rent is from £5 to £7 annually. The sheep are 
 in high estimation for their very peculiar excellencies, and bring a high correspond- 
 ing price. 
 
APPENDIX. xlix 
 
 It is a curious remnant of olden ecclesiastical privilege, that twelve solan geese, 
 entire, with the feathers on, are annually paid to the minister of North Berwick, — 
 the vicar of the Bass. 
 
 From " The Bass Rock." Eclin., 1848. 
 
 The :earliest proprietors of the island on record were the ancient family of the 
 Lauders, who, from this, were usually designated the Landers of the Bass. A charter 
 of it in favour of Robert Lauder from William de Lambert, bishop of St. Andrews, 
 dates as far back as 1316. According to Henry the Minstrel, Robert Lauder accom- 
 panied Wallace in many of his exploits. In the aisle of the lairds of the Bass, in the 
 old church of North Berwick, a tomb-stone once bore the following inscription, in 
 Latin-Saxon characters : — " Here lies the good Robert Lauder, the great laird of 
 Congalton and the Bass, who died May, 1311." The crest they assumed from it was 
 quite characteristic, — a solan goose sitting on a rock ; but the motto was rather a 
 burlesque on the original, " Sub umbra alarum tuarum." The island continued in the 
 possession of this ancient family for about five centuries. 
 
 Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., to Mr. Crawford, W.S. 
 
 The Grange House, 18th December, 1847. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 It has occurred to me that it may be just as well to put you in possession 
 of the fact, that the family of Lauder of Lauder Tower and the Bass, continued to be 
 the same until the time of the Indenture I sent you. The Bass then went into a 
 junior branch of the family, and, as the shortest way of explaining this, I may quote 
 from the Burke Peerage and Baronetage the matter taken from our family documents: — 
 " Sir Robert Lauder of Bass, so designed in a curious indenture between him and the 
 preaching friars of Dundee, of date 1531, which document was also robbed from the 
 charter-chest, by the house-breaker, in 1836, and never recovered. Down to this Sir 
 Robert, the titles of Lauder and of Bass were indiscriminately used by the family, and 
 it is his armorial bearings that are given as those of Lauder of Bass in the works of 
 Lindsay of the Mount. He "married Alison or Mariotta Cranstoun, and died in 1561. 
 Besides his eldest son, Richard Lauder of Lauder, who was his successor, he left a 
 son Robert, to whom he gave the Bass, and other East Lothian lands, thus creating a 
 separate family with that title." This junior family made several changes upon the 
 original family arms, for whilst they preserved the griffon in the shield, instead of the 
 white lion used by the chief, they took angels as supporters, and, instead of the crest 
 of the chief family, a tower with a man in a watching posture looking out of it, they 
 assumed the crest of a gannet sitting upon a rock. One of the last lairds of Bass was 
 with Queen Mary upon Carberry Hill, at the time she was taken to Edinburgh by 
 the Lords. Not long after this, this branch of the family fell into decay, after which 
 the Bass underwent various transferences, until it was afterwards sold to the Govern- 
 ment by Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who was 
 my great-great-grandfather, having been father-in-law to Lord Eountainliall. The 
 
 G 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 sum paid for the Bass was £4000, and the sale was in October, 1671. Near the 
 harbour of North Berwick, on a sandy eminence close to the shore, stand the remains 
 of what is traditionally called the " Auld Kirk." In the burial-place of this, which 
 lias been much encroached upon by the sea, a large stone lies flat in the green centre 
 of the area which the building must have enclosed, and is said to mark the place of 
 interment of the Lauders of the Bass. — I am, dear Sir, yours truly, 
 
 Thos. Dick Lauder. 
 
 Charter of WilHelmus de Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrews, to Robert Lauder 
 of Bass, of their part of that Island, 4th June, 1816. 
 
 Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris Willielmus miseracione diuina sancti 
 Andrei Episcopus salutem in Domino : Sciatis nos vtilitate ecclesie nostre pensata 
 dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse Roberto de Lauwedre pro 
 homagio et seruicio suo totam partem nostram Insule in mari que vocatur le Bass 
 iuxta Aldham in Laudonia ; Tenend. et habend. dicto Eoberto et heredibus suis de 
 nobis et successoribus nostris in perpetuum cum omnibus libertatibus commoditatibus 
 et aysiamentis suis ac pertinenciis libere et quiete in omnibus et per omnia sine aliquo 
 retinemento ; Reddendo ipse Iiobertus et heredus sui nobis et successoribus nostris 
 apud Tynyngham ad festum Pentecostes singulis annis vnam- libram cere nomine 
 albe firme tantum pro omnibus terrenis serviciis et demandis que de dicta Insula cum 
 pertinenciis a nobis vel successoribus nostris exigi poterunt vel demandari Nos vero 
 Willielmus et successores nostri predicto Eoberto et heredibus suis predictam partem 
 nostram Insule del Bass cum pertinenciis suis contra omnes homines et feminas 
 warantigabimus acquietabimus et defendemus in perpetuum. In cuius rei testimonium 
 presenti carte sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi. Dat, apud Wegdall quarto die Junii 
 Anno Domini mccc sexto decimo iliis testibus Dominis Willielmo et Willielmo 
 dei gracia de Melros et de Dryburgh, Abbatibus Dominis Jacobo de Douglas, 
 Alexandra Senesscallo, Henrico de Sancto Claro, Roberto de Keith, militibus et aliis. 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 To all men by whom this Charter shall be seen and heard, William, by the 
 grace of God Bishop of Saint Andrews, wishing salvation in the Lord: — Know ye 
 that we, valuing highly our Church's advantage, have Granted, and by this our 
 present Charter have Confirmed, to Robert Lauder for his homage and service the 
 whole of our part of the Island in the sea which is called the Bass, near to Aldham 
 in Lothian ; to hold and to be holden by the said Robert and his heirs from 
 us and our successors for ever, with all liberties, commodities, and easements, and 
 with the pertinents, freely and quietly in all and by all without any reservation; 
 Paying therefor the said Robert and his heirs to us and our successors at Tynyngham, at 
 the term of Whitsunday yearly, one pound of white wax in name of feu-farm, for all 
 lands, services, and demands which can be exacted or demanded by us and our suc- 
 cessors for the said Island with the pertinents: Therefore we William, and our 
 successors do hereby Warrant, Maintain quiet, and Defend to the foresaid Robert and 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 his heirs, our foresaid part of the Island of the Bass with the pertinents of the same, 
 for ever, and that against all men and women : in testimony whereof, we have 
 made and appointed our seal to be fixed to this present Charter. Given at Wedall 
 the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord 1316, before these witnesses, Lords 
 William and William by the grace of God of Melrose and of Dryburgh, with the Lords 
 Abbots, James of Douglas, Alexander Stuart, Henry Sinclair, Eobert Keith, 
 Esquires, and others. 
 
 This work also contains copy of a document, entitled " Eatificatioun of ane act 
 of secreit Counsaill in favouris of the laird of Bass, maid upon the xxj day of Januar, 
 the zeir of god J m V c fourscoir thre zeiris." This document was granted to " Maister 
 george lauder of bass, his aris and assignais and successouris lardis of bass." 
 
 From " Saint Baldred of the Bass," Edin. I8Z4. 
 
 The Bass pays annually twelve geese to the Church of North Berwick, as part 
 of the minister's stipend ("and two to the schoolmaster," adds Chambers' Gazeteer 
 of Scotland). 
 
 Amongst a multitude of prisoners confined in the Bass the most remarkable 
 were — 
 
 1. — Alexander Peden, of prophetic memory (1677-81). 
 
 2. — Thomas Hog, minister of Kiltern (1677). 
 
 3. — Gilbert Kule, minister at Alnwick (1680). 
 
 4. — Alexander Gordon of Earlston (1683). 
 
 5. — John Blackadder, a lineal descendant of the house of Tulliallan, who died 
 in 1685, after five years' confinement. 
 
 NO. XXXIX. 
 
 NOETH BEEWICK. 
 
 From " Extracts from the Records of the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland," 
 1677-1711, J. D. Marwick. Edin., 1880. 
 
 Buhgh of North Berwick. 
 
 The estait of North Berwick as given in by George Simsone, ther clerk, one of 
 ther baillies being absent, the other sick, who compeired befor James Fletcher, 
 provost of Dundie, and Alexander Walker, baillie of. Aberdeen, commissionars 
 appoynted by the royall borrowes for visiting the wholl south and westerne borrowes 
 
Hi APPEN'PJX.. 
 
 be south the river of Forth, who gave in ane accompt of the patrimonii and state 
 therof as followes : 
 
 1. First article, answered that the comon good of Northberwick extends to 
 19 lib. 6s. 8d. for the year 1690, ther being no other bookes produced to the visitors 
 but for that year. 
 
 2. Second article, answered they have no mortificationes. 
 
 3. Third article, they are not concerned therein. 
 
 4. Fourth article, they are not concerned therein. 
 
 5. The magistrates being absent could get no accompt of ther thoasaurie bookes 
 save only ther comon good. 
 
 6. Sixt article, for malt, wine and bran.die, soe inconsiderable the vent therof 
 that its not worth the mentioneing, ther being only five firlotts of malt sold weekly. 
 
 7. Ships they have none nor ferrie boats except two fish boats which payes 
 nothing to the toune. 
 
 8. Its answered they have no pairt of ships, barks, or boats without ther towne, 
 ther being none of them in a conditione. 
 
 9 article, that ther cess is payed by a yearly tax on ther houses and borrow 
 aikers. 
 
 10. Ther ministers stipend is payed by the heretors of the paroch. 
 
 11. That ther publict works, such as ther harbour, tolbooth, and streits and 
 servants fees are all payed out of the comon good. 
 
 12. The clerk declairs he cannot give ane accompt of the maills of the towne 
 houses. 
 
 13. They have neither weekly nor yearly marcats. 
 
 14. That Dirletoune being a burgh of barronie lyes within a mylle to_.them ; 
 there are some merchants in it but they conceave of no great value. 
 
 This is the trew accompt of the condition of the said burgh, given up, upon oath, 
 by George Simsone, towne clerk, to the saids two visitors, the eighteen day of Aprile 
 1692 years, and subscrivit be him. Sic subscribitur : Geo. Simsone, clerk. 
 
 Abridged from the " Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland." Edin,, 1882. 
 
 North Berwick, a watering-place of Haddingtonshire, 3£ miles WSW. of the 
 Bass by water. Mainly consisting of the long High Street, running E. and W. parallel 
 to a modem seaward row. North Berwick fronts a little greenstone promontory 
 which forms a small natural harbour, and right and left of which are Milsey and 
 North Berwick Bays. Behind the town conical North Berwick Law rises 612 feet 
 above the level of the sea.* The harbour is dry at low water, and never too easy of 
 access, but possesses a tolerable pier, and carries on a fairish trade in the import of 
 
 guano and coal, and the export of potatoes for the London market The 
 
 " Auld Kirk " by the harbour, on the sandy eminence that once was an islet joined 
 
 * This height is given, not at 612, but as 940 feet, in well-nigh every work on Scottish 
 topography. The fons erroris seems to have been the New Statistical. 
 
APPENDIX. liii 
 
 to the shore by arches, is an interesting hut dilapidated ruin, with only its arched 
 
 main doorway and font entire North Berwick owes its incorporation as a 
 
 royal burgh to a charter of Eobert III. (1390-1406), confirmed by James VI. in 1568, 
 and it is governed by a provost, a bailie, a treasurer, 6 councillors, 2 town-clerks, and 
 a procurator-fiscal ; whilst since the Union it has united with Haddington,. Dunbar, 
 Jedburgh, and Lauder in returning one member to parliament, its parliamentary con- 
 stituency numbering 212 and its municipal 217 in 1881, when its corporation 
 revenue amounted to £317, and its valuation to £9273 lis. Pop. of parliamentary 
 burgh (1851) 863, (1861) 1164, (1871) 1399, of whom 900 were in the royal burgh, 
 (1881) 1698. 
 
 NO. XL. 
 
 LAUDEE. 
 
 From Wilson's "Gazetteer of Scotland." Edinburgh, 1882. 
 
 Lauder, town and parish on west border of Berwickshire. The town stands on 
 Leader river, seven miles north-north-west of Earlston ; possessed some consequence 
 in the time of William the Lion ; was the scene of the execution of James Ill's 
 favourites by the Earl of Angus, " Bell the Cat " ; unites now with Jedburgh, 
 Haddington, Dunbar, and North Berwick in sending a member to Parliament ; has 
 long presented a worn and dull appearance ; adjoins the mansion of Allanbank and 
 the Earl of Lauderdale's seat of Thirlstane Castle; real property 1880-81, town, 
 £2,456, Pop., 964 ; landward part, £21,591, Pop. 1940. Many ancient camps, many 
 tumuli, and traces of a Roman Road are among the hills. 
 
 NO. XLI. 
 
 From Anderson's " Scottish Nation," vol. II. Edin., 1861. 
 
 Lauder, a surname said to have been originally de Lavedre. The first of the 
 name is stated to have been one of those Anglo-Norman barons who accompanied 
 Malcolm Canmore to Scotland in 1056, and obtained from that monarch certain 
 grants of land, particularly in Berwickshire, to which he gave his own name, being 
 also invested with the hereditary bailieship of Lauderdale. The surname, however, is 
 more likely to have been derived from the Leader water, called by Camden, in his 
 
Hv: APPENDIX. 
 
 Britania, Lauder ; the vale through which it flows being, from a very early period, 
 called Lauderdale, The Celtic word Laudur, signifying the lesser river, or the 
 river which breaks forth, is thought by some to apply to the Leader, which 
 occasionally, after heavy rains, overflows its banks and overspreads the neighbouring 
 lands. . . . 
 
 Sir Eobert de Lavedre of the Bass fought at Stirling Bridge in 1297. The 
 family of Lauder were the earliest proprietors on record of the island of the Bass, in 
 the frith of Forth, and were usually designated the Lauders of the Bass. According 
 to Henry the Minstrel, Sir Eobert de Lauder of the Bass was the associate of Wallace 
 in many of his exploits. ... 
 
 His successor, also Sir Eobert de Lauder, was justiciary of the Lothians and that 
 part of Scotland to the south of the Forth in 1328, and in 1333 he and his son, Sir 
 Eobert de Lauder, of Quarrelwood in the county of Nairn (sic), who held the office of 
 justiciary of all the country to the south of the Forth, were present at the disastrous 
 battle of Halidon, under Archibald Douglas, lord of Galloway, regent of Scotland, 
 called the Tyneman, who was slain in the fray. Sir Eobert Lauder, the son, was 
 constable of the royal castle of Urquhart on- Loch Ness, and bravely defended that 
 stronghold, one of the four which successfully held out against the power of 
 Edward III. By the title of Sir Eobert Lauder of Quarrelwood he granted a charter 
 of lands in and near " his borough of Lauder," to Thomas de Borthwick, which is 
 witnessed by John de Mautelant, the sixth of the Lauderdale family, and his brother, 
 William, and also by his own son, Sir Alan de Lauder, and by his grandson. .. His 
 only daughter, Ann, heiress of Quarrelwood, married in 1335 Sir Eobert Chisholme, 
 who in 1364 succeeded his father-in-law, as constable of Urquhart castle. 
 
 Sir Eobert's son, Sir Alan de Laudere of Hatton in Mid Lothian, had several 
 charters for different lands about 1370, in the shire of Berwick, from Eobert, earl of 
 Strathern, afterwards Eobert II. From him descended the Lauders of Hatton. He 
 had three sons, namely, Eobert, his successor ; William, bishop of Glasgow, and 
 chancellor of Scotland in 1423, who built the steeple of Glasgow; and Alexander, 
 bishop of Dunkeld in 1440. 
 
 The eldest son, Sir Eobert Lawedre of the Bass, surnamed " Eobert with the 
 Boreit whynger" . . . was in 1453 one of the conservators of the truce between 
 James II. and Henry VI. of England. 
 
 His son, Sir Eobert Lawedre, about the year 1450 obtained from James II. a 
 grant of the manor of Edrington in Berwickshire. . . . On the 2nd of February, 
 1477, with Lord Home and Adam Blackadder of that ilk, he was deputed by 
 James III. to conduct safely to Edinburgh the persons who were conveying from 
 Edward IV., two thousand merks as an instalment of his daughter the princess 
 Cicely's portion. On 13th September, 1489, he purchased from Hugh, son of Sir 
 Patrick Dunbar, his lands of Beil, in East Lothian, and his mill of Mersington in 
 Berwickshire. In 1506 he is designed of the Bass, and in 1511 he had a safe-conduct 
 to England from Henry VIII. . . . 
 
 In 1593 George Lauder of Bass was appointed one of the commissioners to 
 examine into his majesty's debts, and to make arrangements for his proposed visit 
 tci the Isles. He was also in October of the same year one of the " special persons " 
 of the estates to whom was remitted the offers of the three Popish lords, the earls 
 of Angus, Huntly, and Errol, to consider and determine. . . . 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Richard Lauder of Lauder is said to have been a senator of the College of 
 Justice, by the title of Lord Lauder, and as his successor on the bench was appointed 
 in 1575, he is supposed to have died before that year. His name, however, does not 
 occur in Brunton and Haig's Historical Account of the Senators of the College of 
 Justice, but, under date July 9, 1575, James Meldrum, younger of Segie, is appointed 
 as an ordinary lord on the temporal side, " in the place of William Lauder of that 
 ilk," of whom no account is given. Richard had three sons. 
 
 His eldest son was Robert Lauder of Lauder, on the death of whose son and 
 grandson, the direct line was carried on by Robert's next brother, William, who had 
 three sons, namely, Robert, who died without issue ; William, called " Will of the 
 West Port," who was dirked on the bench, by the earl of Home and a party of Humes 
 and Cranstouns, who, after setting fire to the Tolbooth, broke in upon him while 
 sitting in the court-house of Lauder as hereditary bailie. Having no issue, he was 
 succeeded by his younger brother, Andrew Lauder, whose son, John Lauder of 
 Newington, Edrington, and Fountainhall, at one time a merchant and magistrate of 
 Edinburgh, was created a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1688. 
 
 NO. XLII. 
 
 From " General Index to the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland." Edin., 1875. 
 
 LAUDER of Adinstoun, Sir Lues, sheriff-principal of Edinburgh, in parliament : 
 —1628. 
 
 of Auldhousb, Robert, Renfrew: — 1685. 
 
 of Balbardeis, Gilbert and William : reduction of their infeftments : — 
 1585. 
 
 of Bass, Robert, in parliament :— 1471, 1478, 1481, 1483; on a com- 
 mittee of parliament: — 1488. Robert, younger, in parliament: — ■ 
 1572. Laird, appears at the calling of suits: — 1579. George, on 
 the privy council : — 1592, 1593; on the Articles; — 1592; commis- 
 sioner for punishing slayers of solan geese and other birds on the 
 Bass: — 1592; the lordship and bailiary of Tininghame, with the 
 office of heritable justiciar, and erection of the town into a 
 free burgh of barony and regality, ratified to him : — 1593 ; in a con- 
 vention at Linlithgow :— 1593 ; at Holyrood :— 1593, 1596, 1598; 
 at Edinburgh :— 1594, 1596; in parliament :— 1593, 1594, 1596, 
 1598; commissioner on petitions:— 1593 ; on meal: — 1598; on the 
 coin:— 1599. 
 
 of Belhaven, Robert, Haddington : — 1685. 
 
 of Beilmodth (Beilsmouth), Robert, commissioner of supply for Had- 
 dington :— 1689, 1690 ; Sir Robert :— 1704. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 L A UDE R— continued. 
 
 of Edkington, Sir Robert de, ambassador to treat for the liberation of 
 James I. :— 1423. 
 
 of Fountainhall, Sir John, commissioner of supply for Haddington : — 
 1685, 1689, 1690, 1704; for the militia :— 1689 ; senator of the 
 college of justice : — 1690 ; in parliament : — 1685, 1686, 1690, 1693, 
 1695, 1696, 1698, 1700, 1703, 1704, 1705, 1706; barony of 
 Fountainhall ratified to him and to his son John : — 1685 ; on com- 
 mittees : — 1690, 1700; examined on oath in a reduction of for- 
 feiture: — 1690; signs the Association: — 1696; takes the oath of 
 allegiance : — 1703 ; votes on the clauses of the Treaty of Union : — 
 1706, 1707, John, younger, commissioner of supply : — 1696, 1704. 
 
 of Haltotjn, in parliament : — 1471, 1484, 1487. William, on an assize : 
 — 1540 ; in parliament : — 1560 ; commissioner for musters : — 1574. 
 Sir William, cited as a rebel: — 1590. Alexander: on his petition, 
 the alienations made by his father Sir William, to Lauder of 
 Balbardies, of the lands and living of Halton, declared of no effect : 
 — 1585 ; in parliament for Edinburgh principal : — 1621. Laird, on 
 committees of war for Edinburgh: — 1647, 1648. Lairds, commis- 
 sioners of excise: — 1661; justices of peace: — 1663. Charter to 
 Charles Maitland and Elizabeth Lauder his wife, daughter of 
 Richard Lauder of Halton, of the lands of Halton and Norton, 
 under condition that their heirs take the surname of Lauder and 
 quarter the arms of Lauder of Halton and Maitland of Lauderdale, 
 ratified: — 1663. Sir John, in parliament for Edinburgh: — 1693, 
 1695. 
 
 of Idinqtoun, Sir George, Berwick : — 1696. 
 
 of Kingsbaens, Haddington : — 1648. 
 
 of Nesbit, Gilbert, Berwick : — 1649. 
 
 Alan de Lauder, fined £1000 for disturbing the justiciar's court, and using 
 words contemptuous of the king and the judges : — 1368. 
 
 Alexander, provost of Edinburgh, on the Articles : — 1503 ; in parliament : 
 • — 1503,1505; commissioner for holding parliament : — 1504,1505. 
 
 Andrew, in parliament for Lauder : — 1584. 
 
 Andrew, to certify character of ministers : — 1654. 
 
 Charles, in parliament for Lauder: — 1681. 
 
 George, in parliament for North Berwick : — 1649. 
 
 Henry, king's advocate, in parliament: — 1538, 1540, 1541; votes for 
 Arran as governor : — 1542 ; during his absence, Thomas Kincraigy 
 appointed advocate to the queen: — 1544; commissioner for 
 holding parliament : — 1544, 1545, 1546, 1548. 
 
 Hugh, in parliament for Dunbar : — 1587. 
 
 James, in parliament for Renfrew: — 1645; for Dunbar: — 1645, 1646, 
 1648, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1667, 1669, 1670, 1672 ; another 
 commissioner admitted for Dunbar in his room : — 1646 ; on com- 
 mittees of war : — 1647, 1648; of Estates: — 1648; commissioner of 
 excise: — 1661 j justice of peace : — 1663. ...• 
 
APPENDIX. Ivii 
 
 LAUDER— continued. 
 
 James, in parliament for Haddington :— 1690, 1693, 1695; excused from 
 
 attendance in parliament : — 1695. 
 John, in convention for Dunbar : — 1665. 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel : letter to him on the Earl of Mar's death : — 1689. 
 Maurice, in parliament for Dunbar : — 1585. 
 Robert de Lowedre, ambassador to conclude peace between England and 
 
 Scotland: — 1323; witnesses a charter : — 1342. 
 Robert, captain, forfeited: — 1568 ; pardoned: — 1578. 
 Thomas, in parliament for North Berwick : — 1579, 1584, 1612, 1617. 
 William, licentiate of laws, archdeacon of Lothian, commissioner to renew 
 
 the alliance with France : — 1406. 
 William, commissioner for holding parliament : — 1528. 
 William, in parliament for Lauder : — 1649. 
 LAUDER, BURGH OF. 
 
 Commissioners to Parliament. 
 Andrew Lawder : — 1584. 
 William Lauder : — 1649. 
 Charles Lauder : — 1681. 
 LOTHIAN, Archdeacon of. George Lauder, ambassador to France: — 1406; the 
 
 archdeacon on committees of dooms : — 1469, 1471. 
 NORTH BERWICK. 
 
 Commissioners to Parliament for the Burgh. 
 
 Commissioners not named : — 1478, 1481, 1487, 1566. 
 Thomas Lauder :— 1579, 1584. 
 Thomas Lauder, 1612, 1617. 
 Hospital. Procuratory of resignation of certain lands by William Lauder 
 to his son Robert, to be held of the queen for payment of 20 merks 
 to the hospital of North Berwick, built by Robert Lauder of Bass, dated 
 1544. 
 HADDINGTON. 
 
 Commissioners to Parliament for the Shire. 
 
 John Wedderburn of Gosfoord, and Sir John Lauther: — 1685, 1686. 
 Lairds of Stevenson and Orrnistoun, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, and 
 
 William Morrison of Prestongrange : — 1690. 
 Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenson, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, 
 William Morrison of Prestongrange, William Hepburn of Beinston : — 
 1693, 1695, 1696, 1698, 1700. 
 Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Andrew Fletcher of Salton, William 
 Nisbet of Dirleton, and John Cockburn, younger, of Orrnistoun: — 
 1703,1704,1705,1706. 
 
Iviii APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XLIII. 
 
 From " Carte Monialium de Northberwic." Edin., 181fl. 
 
 Lauder, Johannes. (P. 39). — 1524, January 4. Instrumentum resigna- 
 tionis domine Alisone Home. 
 
 Lawder, Johannes, arehidiaconus Tevidalie. (P. 57) — Confirmatio Johannis 
 Lawder archidiaconi Tevidalie et Georgii Cuik canonici Dunkeldensis commissariorum 
 26 Februarii a.d. 1540 secundum cursum et oomputationem eeclesie Scotieane. 
 
 Lauder, Eobertus. (P. 39). — 1524, January 4. Instrumentum resigna- 
 tions domine Alisone Home. Lauder, Eobertus, capellanus. (P. 60). — 1544, 
 August 12. Carta Isobelle Hume priorisse et Margarete Hume electe super 
 duobus molendinis de Northberwik. " .Roberto Lawder notario publico capellanis." 
 (P. 83). — 1562, March 30. The teynd schaves of Est Craig — " apprevit be 
 us Eobert Lauder and Sir Alexander Quhit publict notaris." Lawder, Eobertus, 
 dominus Insule de Bas. (P. 38). — 1493, May 5. " Nobilis vir Eobertus Laudir 
 dominus Insule de Bas " Bulla Alexandri Sexti Pape. — Alexander VI. Papa dat in 
 mandatis ad inquirendum an Eobertus Laudir dominus insule de Bas nitatur 
 erigere parochialem ecclesiam infra limites parochialis eeclesie S. Andree de North- 
 berwic, monasterio de Northberuyk canonici unite, et super eo decernendum. Pro- 
 visone in terras dicti E. interdicti sententia proferatur sine mandato speciali. (P. 62) — 
 1548, June 24. Eobertus Lauder de Bas. Carta margarete priorisse super xxiij 
 terris husbandiis et dimidia. (P. 74) — Aug. 27, 1557. Anent the geis of the Bas. — 
 Protestatus est Eobertus Lawder de Bas prout sequitur. That quhair Thomas Carrik 
 burges of Northtberwyk had coft his geiss of the Bas and subscriuit ane contract to the 
 said Thomas vpone syk pricis and deliuerans and rasait of the said geis lyk as the 
 contract beris at mair lentht ex quo dictus Eobertus Lawder de Bas petiit instrumenta 
 Acta erant hec apud Northtberwyk in cemeterio eiusdem hora quarta coram his testi- 
 bus Johanne Sanbeid Thomas Lawder Jacobo Stevensone Eoberto Lyell. Insuper 
 Thomas Carrik allegavit pari forma That the said Eobert had hrokkyn promes to hym 
 and that the said Eobert suld haue resauit certain geis in the hows that vald nocht 
 sell Ex quo Thomas Carrik petiit instrumenta. (P. 76) — Sep. 14, 1560. Pre- 
 sentatio capellani hospitalis confratrum pauperum. Personaliter accesit providus vir 
 Eobertus Lawder de Bas indubitatus patronus hospitalis confratrum pauperum et 
 capellanie perpetue eiusdem prope villam de Northtberwyk perpetue fundate et 
 
 situate ad sacellum seu capellam huiusmodi hospitalis predicti. ... (P. 82) 
 
 Marti! 28, 1562, Dame Margaret Howme and Robert Lawder of the Baa. Johannes 
 Balye filius naturalis quondam magistri Barnardi Baillye deuenit fideiussor et caution- 
 arius ac debitor nobili et potenti viro Eoberto Lauder de Bas pro summa centum 
 novem librarum et quatuor solidorum sibi deben per venerabilem dominam Mar- 
 garetam Howme priorissam monasterii de Northtberwyk . . . Et eodem die thair vas 
 compt and reknyng maid betuix dame Margret Howme of Northtberwyk and Eobert 
 Lauder 'of the Bas of all comptis reknyngis of ferine beir and of all restis therof 
 quhilk the said priores allegit ves awand hyr be the said Eobertis subtenentis duell- 
 ing in Northtberwyk and at the day and dait of thir presentis the said dem Margret 
 prioress grantit hyr veill content and thankfullye payit be the said Eobert and his 
 tenentis forsaid of all ferme beir quhilk thai var in vse to pay to hyr extending 
 
APPENDIX. li x 
 
 yeirlie to sax sooir bollis ferme beir ilk ane for thair awyn pert respectiue of the 
 quhiLk ferme beir the said priores quiet clames and discbargis tbe said Robert Lauder 
 bis airis executouris and assignais and all tbe inbabitouris of tbe towne of Northt- 
 berwyk subtenentis and fermerouris to tbe said Robert to tbe day and dait of thir 
 presentis. 
 
 Lauder, Robert, younger of tbe Bas. (P. 67)— Apr. 29, 1553. TJie sendee of 
 William Lawder and William Wod. — Tbat tbe said William Lawder and William 
 Wod band and oblest tbame for tbe gratitudis abone vrittyng for to mak lesum 
 seruice to tbe said Robert Lawder youngar and to be continually at syk reddines 
 quhen the said Robert passis to ryd or ony vther lesum seruice in this that 
 thai suld serue bym conforme to the ois of gentyllmen and curtesy of the 
 relme tbe said Robert nocbt to charge thaim to na mater bot that thai mado 
 off thair honor for tbe quhilk the said Robert sail thankfully pay ay and quhill 
 be enter to his landis to the said Wilyeme Lawder ilk yeir for seruice forsaid twynty 
 pundis gud and vsuall mony at twa termes and to Wilyeme Wod ten merkis rnony 
 forsaid all cauellacioun fraud and gill put away. (P. 72) — Jul. 24, 1556. The 
 handfasting of Robert Lawder younger of the Bas and Jane Hepburn. Syr Valter 
 Robertsone vicar of Abyrdowr ministrat and execut the office anent tbe handfasting 
 betwix Robert Lawder younger of the Bass and Jane Hepburn dochter to Patrik 
 Erll Bothwell in thir vordis following I Robert Lawder tak yow Jane Hepburne to 
 my spousit vyf as the law of Haly Kirk schawis and therto I plycht yow my trewht 
 and syklyk I tbe said Jane Hepburne takis you Robert Lawder to my spowsit hus- 
 band as tbe law of haly Kirk schaws and therto I plycht to yow my trewth and 
 execut the residew of the said maner of handfasting confomie to the consuetud vsit 
 and wont in syk casis. (P. xxv.) — The Rental! of Northberwick v Kirlcis. . . . 
 North Berwick Kirk. . . . Item, set to Alexander Hoym the maynis of Northberwick, 
 with the fferm akaris occupyit be Robert Ladar of the Bas, ffor the sovm of xxxv 
 lib. few maill. 
 
 Carta Jacobi comitis de Douglas, 1381-1388. 
 
 Jacobus comes de Douglas dominus baronie de Northberwyk . . . dilecto nostro 
 Alano de Lawedyr pro suo bono servicio nobis impenso omnes terras subscriptas cum 
 suis Hbertatibus et pertinenciis jacentes in burgo nostro de Northberwyk nos contin- 
 gentes pro defectu heredum antiquorum tenentium earundem . . . incipiendo ad altam 
 viam que se extendit versus ecclesiam Sancti Andree ex parte orientali et sic per 
 altam viam burgi ex parte australi vsque ad tenementum Willebni Broun ex parte 
 occidentali et sic ex parte utraque usque ad mare ex parte boriab Tenendas . . . adeo 
 libere . . , sicnt aliqua terra in burgo domini nostri Regis vel alicujus comitis vel 
 baronis poterit dari . . . Reddendo . . . nobis et heredibus nostris et successoribus 
 dominis baronie de Northberwyk novem denarios pro burgi firma. et capellano beate 
 Marie virginis divina celebranti in ecclesia parocbiali de Northberwyk sex sobdos et 
 octo denarios sterlingorum quos recipere solebat antiquis temporibus de dictis terris 
 . . . Apud castrum nostrum de Temptaloun. Hiis testibus dominis Roberto Thoma 
 et Willelmo de Colvele. Gilberto de Grame. Ricardo de Bekyrtoun militibus. 
 Jobanne rectore de Douglas. Warino . . . tunc ballivo burgi nostri de Nortbberwyk 
 et multis aliis. 
 
lx APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XLIV. 
 
 From the " Protocol Book " of North Berwick. 
 
 Vol. I. (Feb. 3, 1539— Dec. 14, 1562): — 
 
 John Lauder, bailie (Aug., 1544). 
 
 Thomas Lauder, filius, bailie (1545-1550; Feb. 1555, 1560). 
 
 Giorgius Lauder and his brother Eobert (1546) ; George (1548). 
 
 Eobertns Lauder di Bass (1555). 
 
 Eobert Lauder of ye Bass (1561). 
 
 Eobert Lauder of ye Bass, yr. (1554). 
 
 John Lauder, captain of the Bass (Nov., 1561). 
 
 Eobert Lauder, younger of ye Bass gives the "landis of litell Spott to his eldest 
 brother natural William (29th April, 1553), witnesses George Lauder and 
 Eobert Lauder, notar." 
 Vol. II. (Jan. 1, 1562— Nov. 23, 1569) :— 
 
 Thomas Lauder (Jan. 1562, 1563 ; Oct. 8, 1565 — setting of ye landis of Fair- 
 law, 1566— of Fairlaw, May, 1569). 
 
 Ihon Lauder in faire-lawess of fitar (April 8, 1564). 
 
 Johannes Lawder in Faimilawess occurs (1565) in a marriage contract between — 
 
 Eobert Lauder of ye Bass and Elizabeth Guy. 
 
 William Lauder (April 6, 1565, 1568). 
 
 Archibald Lauder (1566, 1568). 
 
 Patrick — with the two preceding — resign " villany land " to Eobert Lauder of 
 ye Bass (1568). 
 Vol. III. (Dec. 2, 1569— April 13, 1575):— 
 
 Patrick Lawder (1570, 1571). 
 
 Thomas Lauder, younger (1570) ; Thomas Lauder filius Thoma Lauder burgess 
 de North Berwick (1571). 
 
 William Lauder (1571) ; William Lauder, captain of the Bass (1571) ; William 
 Lauder, filius naturalis Eoberti Lauder de Bass. William Lauder sonn 
 naturall to robert Lauder of ye Bass (1571). 
 
 Androw Lawder (1571, 1572). 
 
 Archibald Lauder (1571). 
 
 1572, 30th April. The quhilk day Androw Lauder burges of Lauder subscrivit 
 to William Lauder Captain of ye Bass ane exposition to gydde wy* ane 
 obligation datit ye day and dait hierof as ye tenor fyrst of ye exposition 
 following Be yt kend till all men be yir presentis, me, Androw Lauder, 
 burges of lauder, to be bound and oblast and be ye tenor hierof bindis and 
 oblasis me my aris and assignais to William Lauder elder sonn naturall to 
 Eobert Lauder of ye Bass. . . . 
 
APPENDIX. lxi 
 
 NO. XLV. 
 
 From the " Burgh Court Book " of North Berwick, 7th February, 163% 
 
 to 22nd July, 1726. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1638. Alexander Lawder, of the Council (7th May and 10th October). 
 
 1639. George Lauder, of the Council (16th October). 
 1644. George Lauder, of the Council (6th June). 
 
 1646. George Lauder, of the Council (7th October). 
 
 1647. George Lauder, of the Council (27th October). 
 1649. George Lauder, of the Council (10th October). 
 1653, John Lauder, of the Council (9th July)7 
 
 1 655. John Lauder. Bailie (3rd October). 
 
 1656. John Lauder, younger, Bailie (19th March). 
 
 1661. John Lauder, of the Council (23rd October). " 
 
 1676. John Lauder, Bailie (2nd February). 
 
 1677. "William Lauder, of the Council (28th June). 
 
 1679. William Lauder, of the Council (19th March). 
 
 John Lauder, Bailie (16th March). 
 
 1680. William Lauder, Bailie (10th November). 
 
 1681. John Lauder, Bailie (1st August). 
 
 William Lauder, Bailie (1st August). 
 
 John Lauder, of the Council (6th December). 
 
 Alexander Lauder, of the Council (6th December). 
 
 1682. John Lauder, Bailie (1st October). 
 
 1685. Archibald Lauder, of the Council (14th December). 
 
 1689. William Lauder, Bailie (19th September). 
 
 John Lauder, Bailie (27th October to 27th October, 1690). 
 
 1692. John Lauder, Bailie (15th February and 2nd August). 
 
 1693. John Lauder, Bailie (2nd August). 
 
 1694. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (7th June). 
 
 1699. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (11th November). 
 
 1700. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (3rd June). 
 
 1701. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (13th May). 
 
 1703. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (8th March). 
 
 1704. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (11th November). 
 
 John Lauder, Bailie (11th November). 
 
 1705. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (21st March). 
 
 John Lauder, Bailie (21st March and 7th October). 
 
 1706. John Lauder, Bailie (12th February). 
 
 1707. John Lauder, Bailie (6th February and 7th June). 
 1709. John Lauder, Bailie (7th March— 1st October). 
 
 1711. John Lauder, Bailie (24th September). 
 
 1712. John Lauder, Bailie (7th October). 
 
 1713. John Lauder, Bailie (19th August). 
 1715. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (4th October). 
 1717. Archibald Lauder, Bailie (28th September). 
 
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kii APPENDIX. 
 
 NO. XLVI. 
 
 From the "Stent Rolls" of North Berwick, 1658 to 1841. 
 
 1658. April, .... Joyne lander, elder. 
 
 Joyne lauder, younger. 
 
 "William Crawford. 
 1661. July, .... John Lauder. 
 
 Jo n Lauder, younger, 
 
 William Crawford. 
 
 Alexander Hoome. 
 
 1663. April, Jo. Lauder, elder. 
 
 Jo. lader, younger. 
 William Craford. 
 
 1664. May, .... W m - Crauford. 
 
 Jo. lauder, elder. 
 
 1665. Aug.-Sep., Jo. Lauder,, elder. 
 
 Jo. Lauder, younger. 
 William Craford. 
 
 1666. ----- Johne Lauder. 
 
 Johne Lauder, younger. 
 Alex. Home. 
 Alex. Crauford. 
 1669-70. Dee. -Jan., - - John Lauder, elder. 
 
 John Lauder, younger. 
 
 1743. June-Dec, .... Mr. Hogg's tenement. 
 
 1744. March, - - - - John Lauder's tenement. 
 
 John Lauder's house. 
 
 Alex Home's tenement. 
 
 Hugh Lauder's house. 
 1747-8, James Anderson's tenement. 
 
 John Lauder's house. 
 1753, ----- John Lauder. 
 1763-4, ----- John Lauder's tenement. 
 
 Tenements of the heirs of Alex. Home. 
 
 Tenements of the heirs of Bailie John Home. 
 
 Bailie Hew Lauder's tenement. 
 
 Tenement of the late Bailie Alexander Lauder. " 
 
 Archibald Lauder. • 
 1765-6, ----- John Lauder's heirs tenement. 
 
 Hew Lauder. 
 
 1771, Archibald Lauder. 
 
 1772, Hew Lauder. 
 
 1780, Hew Lauder. 
 
 Archibald Lauder. 
 1788, Archibald Lauder. 
 
 Note. — The Rolls from 1789 to 1793 are awanting, and the name of Laudeb does not 
 appear thereafter. 
 
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