The Grange of St. Giles, the Bass: and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. Written and illustrated ... by Mrs. J. S. Smith

Front matter

■ THE GRANGE OF ST. GILES 'This deals with noble Knights and Monarchs Full of great fears, great hopes, great enterprises ' Antony Brewer diomass HauUenu0 3Dunkclticn0i0 Cpi^copii'S. pi*acccptou Jacobo II. Kegi is>cotiac. flDbiit anno mccccljcirt Sic ill i[2ot)embri<3. aetatfss 86. (Frontispiece) THE GRANGE OF ST. GILES THE BASS : AND THE OTHER BARONIAL HOMES OF THE DICK-LAUDER FAMILY WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED WITH PEN, PENCIL, AND CAMERA, BY MRS. J. STEWART SMITH EDINBURGH PRINTED KOK THE AUTHOR BV T. AND A. CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY AND SOLD BY THOMSON BROTHERS 74 GEORGE STREET 1898 -/// rir/its reserved Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty Ois HUcorD IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR THOMAS DICK LAUDER SEVENTH BARONET OF FOUNTAINHALL AND ORANGE, AS A TRIBUTE OF UNFEIGNED ESTEEM FOR HIS MANIFOLD VIRTUES AND ENDOWMENTS. NOBLE SCION OF A NOBLE RACE.

Preface

HE end of the nineteenth century seems to be peculiarly notable for the opening up of charterchests and family histories, and the present work partakes in a measure of this character, dealing-, however, with places as well as people — barons and their baronies. As far as the author is aware, the history of the Lauder family as such has never been previously written, and the aim of the writer now is to present a faithful record of their connection with the popular events of historical interest between the years 1056 and 1848. The reason for attempting such a task has been already given. The historical and biographical statements made have been gathered from Scottish records, old chronicles, family papers, and direct personal information, only dipping into traditionary lore when the legend or story gives warrant for at least some possible measure of underlying truth.

From these remarks the reader will readily perceive that the intention of the book is not history pure and simple, nor yet a herald's genealogical chart of mere succession only. The aim has been rather to present the successive generations of the knights and barons, churchmen and warriors, landowners and lawyers, provosts and merchants, of the family, in the midst of the historical episodes of their own period, in the events of which they mingled, thus helping to form the history transpiring around them. Not that these things have been por trayed with the freedom and picturesqueness of romance ; dry facts have been sometimes unavoidable — charters being more indispensable to verity than the most romantic legends. , The author has simply endeavoured to trace the twofold family through seven centuries of good and ill fortune : the De Dycks

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VIII from Orkney, whose forefathers were merchants and aldermen, and the Lauders of the Bass from their sea-girt nest on the Auld Crag and the ancient Tower of Lauder in the quaint mediæval burgh on the Leader. The verification of the information thus gathered has formed no inconsiderable part of the undertaking, the writer finding, like all others who search for truth, that historians, heralds, and authors in general, differ very much from one another with regard to names and dates, and that such mis-statements are most unheed ingly handed on from one to another, causing a considerable amount of confusion, from which it is not always easy to extricate the verity. In searching for proofs from the Public Records, the author is indebted to the courtesy and kindly assistance of Matthew Livingstone, Esq., and the Rev. John Anderson, of the Historical Department at the Register House, and also to the efficient services of Mr. Henry Paton, M.A., a searcher of the Records, without whose skilful aid many of the original documents would have remained undeciphered, so tedious and almost insurmountable is such work to the uninitiated.

There was some little difficulty in making the family history appear to flow consecutively, owing to the twofold name necessitating the tracing up of the separate genealogies, each from their earliest records. The author has therefore divided the subject-matter into three parts, viz., the Dicks, the Lauders, and the Dick Lauders, bringing each individual line up to the point of union, and then continuing the double line up to 1848, ending with Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, seventh Baronet, not wishing in any way to intrude on the sacred privacy of the personal history of the living members of the family, to whom the writer is deeply indebted for the courteous assistance and sympathy rendered during the process of the work, special thanks being due to Lady Anne Dick Lauder, Miss Cornelia Dick Lauder, and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, the present proprietor of the Grange Manor, not only for the valuable information obtained from the charter-chest, but also for the kind permission given to sketch the family mansions and family relics — by no means the least pleasurable part of the work having been the taking of the sketches

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IX and photographs for the various illustrations, all of which have been carefully reproduced by the mechanical processes of Messrs. Scott Brothers, whose co-operation throughout has been most kindly, in telligent, and obliging. It is a strange and noteworthy coincidence that the book entitled Curiosities of a Scots Chaiicr-Chcst, edited and arranged by the Honourable Mrs. Atholl Forbes, should also contain the portrait of Sir William Dick and the three old engravings relative to his chequered career, seeing that Mrs. Forbes and the author of the present volume are perfect strangers to each other, neither knowing that such was the intention of the other ; but beyond thus illustrating the mutual ancestor of the Dicks and the Lauders, Mrs. Forbes' interesting volume of the private letters in the Prestonfield charter chest makes no allusion whatever either to the Lauder family or the Grange of St. Giles.

The writer takes this opportunity of tendering her sincere thanks to those friends who have so kindly assisted her, by advice or other wise, in gathering material for her work, which has been from first to last purely a labour of love. J. S. S. 8 KILMAURS ROAD, September 1897. h

Introduction

LETTER TO MISS CORNELIA DICK LAUDER OF LAUDER HOUSE 8 Kilmaurs Road, Ediniiurgh. Dear Miss Dick Lauder, You ask me to tell you what first induced me to commence the History of the Grange House and its connection with the Lauder family. Strange as it may seem, I must frankly admit the impulse arose from a strong desire to find an elucidation or corroboration of a very curious dream, or rather dream-vision, which came to me so suddenly and so forcibly that I was impelled to take note of it ; and as it happened upon my return from a visit to the Grange House, I naturally concluded the solution of it must also come from thence. Sometimes, in a casual way, a simple occurrence becomes quite by accident, as it were, the key to a chain of unexpected coincidences, and one is fain to acknowledge the unseen potency of even the most trivial event.

Doubtless you will understand my meaning better when I tell you the dream. As I said, I had just returned from the Grange House — which to me has always a peculiar charm of its own, — with its wealth of ivy, its quaintness, and its irregularity. The long, narrow corridors with deep recesses, stairs here and stairs there, leading to unexpected nooks and corners, all most suggestive — especially as the shadows of twilight deepen, and the solemnity of the effect is enhanced. Such may have been the thought of my mind that day, but still, to me, the Grange House was then simply a picturesque old mansion of whose history I knew nothing whatever, nor yet the life-story of its former inhabitants. If there is such a thing as Geist-memories floating in the palpitating air sutrounding these old historic buildings, then surely some such influence must have imperceptibly clung to me, for with startling rapidity a series of remarkable tableaux presented themselves before me — more like a panorama than a dream.

Fortunately I had sufficient consciousness to bear each vision in my mind until the end, when I immediately noted down the whole experience for suture elucidation.

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XII My notes are as follows, dated Monday, January 26th, 1891 :— On returning from the Grange House to-day I distinctly saw, or dreamed that I saw, a gentleman dressed in black velvet of the King Charles period, with lace and ruffles and a short cloak. He held a large plumed hat in his hand as he stepped into an oak-panelled room. His face was haggard and worried-looking, but his whole bearing had a noble appearance. He laid his hat upon the table, and I particularly remarked the position of the window. A lady then came hurriedly forward to meet him, and, throwing her arms round his neck, she laid her face on his shoulder and wept. I could see the convulsive movements, but heard no sound. She was dressed in a grey silken material fashioned of the same period. Her hair may have been fair, but to me it was decidedly grey.

She was tall and stately in form, though elderly, but the man was much older-looking. The scene suddenly changed to another room, in which the same lady met a younger one, clad in lighter clothing, with an anxious frightened look on her face. I noticed this lady's hair was much darker and most picturesquely arranged. The two forms entered an upper room very hurriedly, and appeared to speak to a young man, who rose from a reclining position on a kind of settle or low couch. His costume was of the same period, but of a brownish-coloured cloth, and as he was in semi-deshabille, he had neither coat nor ruffles on. His clothes were of the finest texture, and his linen superlatively white. The three stood close together for an instant, evidently speaking in a whisper, then it seemed as if they were startled by some unwelcome sound, and were listening breathlessly.

The younger lady leaned on the gentleman's arm as though she clung to him for protection. Suddenly the young man stooped down and drew a rapier from beneath a heap of clothing, and they all quickly disappeared through another door. Instantly another tableau presented itself. I felt as though it was still at the Grange House, but in an upper corridor, where a man suddenly appeared dressed in the Cromwell costume, with a large dark cloak wrapped about him, top-boots, and grey hat. His hand was on the hilt of his sword, and he moved stealthily along the passage on tiptoe, bending down and prying into every corner. He entered the long room which the other forms had just vacated, still peering round about him, with a sinister expression on his face, as though seeking some Royalist foe. After a fruitless search he also passed hurriedly out, disappearing in darkness, which remained for a few seconds, and then the figure of a blackamoor came into view — not a negro, for he had on a strange head-dress and Turkish-looking trousers, and a deep red vest. His face was grinning with satisfaction as he stood in the passage just outside a door on the landing. He

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XIII clapped his breast, then laid his hand significantly on the wall, and looking straight at me, he instantly vanished through an opening in it. All was blank for a moment, then I seemed to be in the long upper room again, where I saw the same grey-haired lady, only this time she had on a peculiar black hat, and was wrapped in a fur travelling cloak, as if going on a journey. She had the same stately mien, but her eyes were red with weeping. She glanced furtively about her, and passing quickly out of the room, she descended a staircase, and emerged into the darkness by a postern door, the position of which I also specially noted. After this I felt as though I were groping my way along a passage in the dark, when slowly rising out of the gloom near a turret stair I saw the form of a monk in a brown friar's dress.

His face was terribly bruised, and his hands all bleeding. He was apparently groaning in deep distress, raising his eyes several times beseechingly, as though imploring aid. With this painful sight all vanished, leaving me dazed and astonished, but in no way able to account for these strange visions, knowing at that time absolutely nothing of the history of the Grange House ; and as the whole panorama was purely pantomimic, not a clue could I gain from any sound or utterance of speech. But from the suddenness and the consecutiveness of the tableaux I distinctly felt there must be an underlying meaning somewhere, which it might be interesting to unravel. But what it all had to do with the Grange House puzzled me greatly to know, and that was exactly what I resolved to find out. A month later I was forcibly reminded that I had allowed the whole thing to lapse unheeded, for in the same sudden, unaccountable manner the tableaux recommenced, very like the moving pictures in a camera-obscura.

First there appeared a rolling cloud of mist, out of which some distant forms began to emerge. As they increased in size and clearness I could distinguish a lady clothed in a long cloak, with a kind of hood over her head. She was making her way with difficulty through a storm of wind and snow, holding two children by the hand, a boy and a girl, also struggling with the storm, and pressing forward. The little faces were red with the piercing wind, and their hair all blowing about from beneath the quaint, Dutch-looking headgear. There was a look of deep anxiety on all the faces, with a strong determination to brave the storm and attain some allimportant end. As I noted the leaden sky, the wintry hedges, and the snow trodden road, my heart went forth to the struggling travellers, but in an instant they were gone, and, with the rapidity of limelight views, anothcr picture was before me. It was a large building with a heavy doorway, standing in front of which, as though on guard, was a soldier of the Common-

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XIV wealth ; he was listening with an air of indifference to a youth in a civilian's dress, who had a pale, beseeching face. The soldier held a large, old-fashioned gun, into which he was ramming a rod, as though he were cleaning it. I heard nothing of the conversation, but the look of disappointment on the lad's face was most pathetic. This was the end of the pictorial panorama in 1891, and a whole year elapsed before I got the first clue to the unravelling of it, and that by accidentally seeing a unique folio volume in the Signet Library about the Distressed Case of Sir William Dick, which, with the special permission of the librarian, T. G. Law, Esq., I was kindly allowed to copy. I then com menced to search out the history of the Grange House in earnest, but, circumstances hindering the work, it was not until two years later that I really found how thoroughly the one corroborated the other, the dream-pictures being wonderfully true types or symbols of various states and conditions in the lives of the persons there represented, whom I found had absolutely been former inhabitants of the Grange Manor.

It is not difficult to name them now that the facts lie before us ; but that the solution should be forthcoming, even five or six years after the vision, only increased the feeling that for some reason the work was given me to do. Accepting it as such, I resolved to spare no pains in making it a faithful record of the noble family which claims Sir William Dick as one of its ancestors, — the same Sir William whom in my dream I saw bidding adieu to his affectionate spouse at the Grange House before his final journey to London, after he was denounced as a malignant, hunted by Cromwell's party, and fleeced of his enormous wealth. That Lady Dick and her family found shelter at the Grange with their son William and his open-handed wife, Lady Janet, we know now ; and also that Dame Elizabeth went to London to see her unfortunate husband in prison, and their daughter-in-law arrived in the depth of winter with the younger children in time to secure a proper burial for the aged grandfather, whose grandson and heir long petitioned in vain for redress from the Commonwealth.

Each of these events had been panorama'd before me, even to the fact of Sir William's connection with the ' Dominion of the Turks,' and also the suppression of the whole monastic order at the Reformation, which arose out of the darkness and the gloom, the suffering and the bloodshed, of many imploring souls. In trying to verify these simple statements my interest grew apace, not only in the old mansion itself, but in the early history of the family to whom it belonged, whose twofold family name, while it added to the historic interest, also widened the research, disclosing ties so closely interwoven that it was

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XV impossible to write of the one and ignore the others. Thus the matter grew beyond its first conception, and from the history of the Grange manor it has come to be the history of the Dick Lauder Family and their Baronial Homes. Now that my labour of love is accomplished, I leave it in your hands, dear lady, to deal with it gently, for it is verified facts, not fiction, I have sought to lay before you as the record of your noble ancestors, a long line well worthy of being recorded by a much abler pen than that of your ever faithful scribe, JANE STEWART SMITH. September 1S97. CONTENTS

Part 1 Chap

PAGE I. SANCT GEILIE-GRANGE : ITS HISTORICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ASSOCIATIONS, I II. THE CHAPELS OF ST. ROQUE AND ST. JOHN, AND THE CONVENT OF ST. KATHERINE OF SIENA, ....... IO III. THE LANDS AND MANOR-PLACE OF GRANGE, . . . .21 IV. THE DICKS OF ORKNEY, ........ 31 V. SIR WILLIAM DICK OF BRAID, KNIGHT, ..... 46 VI. THE HEIRS OF BRAID AND DICKS OF FRACAFIELD, -57 VII. THE BARONS OF GRANGE AND THE SETONS OF PITMEDDEN, . . 66 VIII. PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD AT THE GRANGE, . . . . .74 IX. SCOTTISH CELEBRITIES AT THE GRANGE, ..... 83 X. SIR ANDREW DICK OF CRAIGHOUSE, ...... 92 XI. ALEXANDER DICK, LAIRD OF HEUGH, AND THE BARONY OF PRIESTFIELD, 107 XII. SIR JAMES DICK OF PRESTONFIELD, THE WISE PROVOST, . . .115 XIII. PRESTONFIELD MANOR, . . . . . .126 XIV. DR. JOHNSON'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH, . . . . -137

Part II XV

THE LAUDERS OF LAUDER AND BASS: AS WARRIORS, . . 1 5 1 XVI. THE LAUDERS OF BASS: AS CHURCHMEN AND AMBASSADORS, . . 168 XVII. THE CASTLE OF BASS, ........ 189 XVIII. LADY BASS AND THE LAUDERS OF TYNINGHAME, . . . 203 XIX. THE LAUDERS OF HALTOUN AND BRUNTSFIELD, .... 222 XX. THE ANCIENT BURGH OF LAUDER, ...... 253 XXI. THE LAUDERS OF LAUDERDALE, . . . . . . .271

Part III XXII

SIR JOHN LAUDER, FIRST BARONET OF FOUNTAINHALL, . . 289 XXIII. THE BARONETS OF FOUNTAINHALL, . . . . . 303 XXIV. RELUGAS, .......... CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE XXV. THE GRANGE HOUSE AS A BARONIAL RESIDENCE, . . . '3-7 XXVI. SIR THOMAS DICK LAUDER, ....... 337 XXVII. LITERARY WORK OF SIR THOMAS DICK LAUDER AND HUGH MILLER'S CORRESPONDENCE, ........ 349 XXVIII. OLD STONES, FAMILY RELICS, TRADITIONAL STORIES, . . . 363 CONCLUSION, ......... 379

Appendix

Note I., . . . . . . . . . . 383 Note II., ........... 384 Note III., ........... 385 Note IV.— Will of Thomas Bannatyne, ....... 385 Note V. — Copy Estimate of Sir William Dick's Estate as made out by his fourth son, Mr. Alexander Dick, ........ 388 Note VI. — Copia of Scotland's Letter to the House of Commons, ist May 1644, . . 388 Copia of Scotland's Letter to Sir William Dick, 12th December 1645, • ■ 3^9 Recommendation by the Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to the Parliament and Committee of State in that Nation, concerning Sir William Dick, date the 15th June 1646, ......... 389 Copia of Two Letters from the Scots Commissioners at London, to the Committee of Parliament at Edenburgh, and the Committee of State at Newcastle, date 12 Sept. 1646. Concerning Sir William Dick, .... 390 A Short State of the Debts due by England and Scotland to the deceased Sir William Dick, and of the securities he hath thereupon, ..... 390 Copia of Scotland's Letter to the Parliament of England, concerning Sir William Dick.

Date 21 Nov. 1648, ....... 391 Note VII. — The Burial-place of Sir William Dick of Braid, Knight, Provost of Edinburgh, . 392 Note VIII. — Petitions to Parliament of Family, etc., of Sir William Dick, . . . 393 Note IX. — Kirk-Session Records anent the Corstorphine Communion Cups, . . . 396 Note X. — Charter of the Entail of Priestfield, ...... 397 Note XI. — Charter to George Lauder of Bass, ...... 398 Note XII. — Extracts from ' The Loadstar, or Directory to the New World and Transformations,' 399 Considerations to the Parliament, Sept. 1639, ..... 400 Note XIII. —Memorandum for Sir John Lauder anent the Patent — and also for a libell agt., etc. , 1690, .......... 403 Note XIV. — Holograph Notes of Sir John Lander, Lord Fountainhall, from the Charter-Chest of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, ....... 407 Notes from a MS. in the Advocates' Library, by Sir George Mackenzie, anent Lauder and Haltoun, ..... . 408 Note XV. — Catalogue ofthe Family Portraits at the Grange House, . . 409 Note XVI. — Catalogue of Sir Thomas Dick Lander's Works, . ....

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XIX LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BISHOP LAUDER, WITH LATIN INSCRIPTION, ..... Frontispiece PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM DICK OF BRAID, PROVOST, . . . facing page 45 SIR WILLIAM DICK WITH HIS BODYGUARD AT LEITH, ... ,,50 SIR WILLIAM DICK IN PRISON, ...... 1. 55 SIR WILLIAM DICK IN HIS COFFIN AT WESTMINSTER, ... „ 56 GARDEN GATEWAY, PITMEDDEN, ...... ,,70 PORTRAITS OF SIR ANDREW LAUDER AND DAME ISOBEL DICK, . ., 72 OLD PILLAR OF THE ORIGINAL ENTRANCE TO PRESTONFIELD, . ., 1 1 5 YEW TREES, PRESTONFIELD MANOR, ..... ,,131 BIRTHPLACE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, COLLEGE WYND, ... ,, \\\ CHANCEL ARCH OF ST. BALDRED'S CHURCH, TYNINGHAME, . . „ 217 THE SITE OF LAUDER TOWER, ...... „ 253 'WHEN THE KYE COMES HAME.' ...... „ 260 RELUGAS ON THE FINDHORN, ...... „ 326 THE GRANGE HOUSE FROM THE BOWLING-GREEN, ... „ 327 PORTRAITS OF SIR THOMAS DICK LAUDER, SEVENTH BARONET OF FOUNTAINHALL, AND LADY LAUDER, .... „ 329 THE AVENUE, GRANGE HOUSE, ...... „ 336 PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS DICK LAUDER, SEVENTH BARONET, WITH AUTOGRAPH, ., 337 THE MONK'S SEAT, GRANGE GARDEN, ..... „ 364 ' MEMENTO MORI ' WATCH PRESENTED BY QUEEN MARY TO LADY MARY SETON, „ 369 THE MONK'S WALK, GRANGE HOUSE, ..... „ 374 THE HAUNTED TOWER, ... ... „ 378 PLAN OF THE LANDS OF GRANGE, ..... „ 3S0 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT PAGE HEADING — SANCT GEILIES' GRANGE, .......

I ST. CUTHBERT'S CHURCH AND THE NOR' LOCH, ...... 4 GRANGE HOUSE IN 1700, ... -5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XX PAGE THE RUINS OF ST. ROQUE'S CHAPEL, .....•• 9 BLACK DEATH RECORD, ......... 1° BELL AND INSCRIPTION, . . . . . - • • '3 OLD STONE, ST. ROQUE'S, . . . . ■ . • • .14 SETON CHAPEL, .......-■■ l6 DOORWAY, ST. GILES', ......... r9 STEEPLE, ST. GILES', ......... 2° OLD LINTEL STONE, GRANGE HOUSE, ....... 24 CARVED STONE — MASTER JOHN CANT AND KATHERINE CREICH, . . .26 ROSYTHE CASTLE, ......... -3° ST. MAGNUS' CATHEDRAL, KIRKWALL, ....... 33 TOKEN, ST. MAGNUS' CATHEDRAL, ........ 33 SIR WILLIAM DICK AND HIS FAMILY, ....... 38 OLD WINDMILL, NORTH RONALDSHAY, ....... 43 SCALLOWAY CASTLE, ......... 44 COAT-OF-ARMS, ... ...... 46 SIR WILLIAM DICK'S COIN, ., . . . . . . 56 DICK COAT-OF-ARMS, ......... 65 SETON BOOK-PLATE, .......... 66 JANET M'MATH'S TOMB, GREYFRIARS CHURCHYARD, ..... 67 SUN-DIAL, PITMEDDEN, ......... 70 DICK LAUDER ARMS, ......... 73 PRINCE CHARLES' THISTLE, ........ 74 PRINCE CHARLIE ROSEBUSH, ........ 75 KING'S STABLES, CULLODEN MOOR, . . . . . . -77 CHARTER-CHEST, . . . ... . . . . -79 CULLODEN HOUSE, .......... 82 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY GARDEN AT THE GRANGE, . . . . • 86 THE GRIFFIN GATEWAY AND OLD NORTH ENTRANCE AT THE GRANGE, . . 88 THE SCOTT MONUMENT, . . ..... 91 ANCIENT PILLAR FROM ENTRANCE-GATE, CRAIGHOUSE, . . . .92 OLD STONE OVER DOORWAY, CRAIGHOUSE, . . . . . . 102 CRAIGHOUSE, ........... 104 OLD LINTEL STONE, CRAIGHOUSE, . . . . . . . .106 DOVE-COT, HEUGH, NORTH BERWICK, .......

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XXI PAGE RUINS OF THE PRIORY, NORTH BERWICK, . . . . . . 108 DUDDINGSTON LOCH AND CHURCH, . . . . . . I 13 HIGH SCHOOL WYND AND CARDINAL BEATON'S HOUSE, . . . . 120 CHILD FEEDING SWANS, ......... 123 COMMUNION CUP, .......... 125 ROYSTON CASTLE, . . . . . . . .128 GRANTON FROM SILVERKNOWES, ........ 129 SUN-DIAL, PRESTONFIELD, . . . . . . . . .132 PRESTONFIELD HOUSE, . . . . . . . . .134 OLD STONE AT PRESTONFIELD, WITH THE DATE OF RECONSTRUCTION (SAME AS OVER THE DORMER WINDOWS OF THE OLD MANSION), . . . .136 EDINBURGH CASTLE, . . . . . . . -137 LAWNMARKET AND WEST BOW, . . . . . . . .143 TABLET OVER BURIAL-PLACE OF JOHN KNOX, . .148 COAT-OF-ARMS, . . . . . . . . . -151 RUINS OF THE AULD KIRK ON THE SHORE AT NORTH BERWICK, . . 1 57 OLD PARISH CHURCH, NORTH BERWICK, . . . . . . 1 58 URQUHART CASTLE, LOCH NESS, . . . . . . . .163 ARMS OF BISHOP LAUDER ON GLASGOW CATHEDRAL, ..... 168 INSCRIPTION OVER DEAN'S SEAT, CHAPTER-HOUSE, GLASGOW CATHEDRAL, . 170 RUINS OF THE CASTLE OF BERWICK- ON-TWEED, . . . . . .175 ARMS, LAUDER (BASS), . . . . . . . . . l8l THE BASS, ........... 187 OLD WEAPONS — LAUDERS OF BASS, . . . . . . .188 CASTLE OF BASS, ............. 1 94 PRISONS OF THE BASS, ......... 199 TENANTS OF THE BASS, ......... 201 WHITEKIRK, ........... 206 ANCIENT TOMB IN THE RUINS OF ST. BALDRED'S CHURCH AT TYNINGHAME, . 213 RUINS OF ST. BALDRED'S CHURCH, TYNINGHAME, . . . .218 TEMPLAR'S TOMBSTONE, TYNINGHAME, ....... 220 WHITEKIRK TOKEN AND BOSS FROM THE PORCH, . . . . .221 COAT-OF-ARMS— LAUDER OF HALTOUN, ....... 222 HALTON HOUSE, .... . . . 247 BRUNTSF1ELD HOUSE, . . .....

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE MUIRCLEUCH RUINS, . . . . . . . ■ .259 LAUDER PARISH CHURCH, AND SITE OF MARKET CROSS, . 2^2 OLD TOLBOOTH, LAUDER, ......... 276 TOMB OF THE LAST LAIRD OF LAUDER, ....... 283 BURN GRANGE, .......... 285 OLD STONE FROM LAUDER TOWER, ....... 286 LORD FOUNTAINHALL'S BOOK-PLATE, ....... 289 FOUNTAINHALL, .......... 290 BARONETCY PATENT— LAUDER, 1688, ....... 294 COAT-OF-ARMS, LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL, ...... 303 THE PATH THROUGH THE WOODS, ....... 308 WAITING FOR THE YOUNG LAIRD, ....... 3°9 OLD CROSS AT ORMISTON VILLAGE, . . . . . . ■ 3IQ OLD HALL AND ENTRANCE TOWER, . . . . . . 3H WISHING WELL IN THE GLEN, . . . . . . . • 3'3 THE JOUGS AT THE KIRK, ......... 314 OLD TOMB, PENCAITLAND, . . . . . . . . 315 OLD GARDENER, DUNPHAIL, . . . . . . . 3 17 OLD ROCK IN THE FLOOD, ........ 325 OLD FAMILY CHAIR, ......... 330 BELFRY TOWER, GRANGE HOUSE, ........ 332 THE WARRICK VASE AVENUE, ........ 333 DOGS' CEMETERY, .......... 335 SUN-DIAL, GRANGE HOUSE, ......... 336 DICK LAUDER COAT-OF-ARMS, ........ 337 THE OLD TOLL AT THE CAUSEWAYSIDE, ....... 348 OUTLINE SKETCH OF GRANGE HOUSE BY SIR THOMAS, . . . -357 THE DICK LAUDER TOMB, GRANGE CEMETERY, ...... 361 MONOGRAM — 16 WD 74 ........ . 363 OLD STONE— BURGH ARMS, ........ 365 THE PENNY WELL, .......... 366 THE GRANGE GATE TOLL, ......... 367 CARVED SETTLE, . . . . . . . . . .371 SIR WILLIAM DICK'S CABINET, ........

Part I Chapter

I SANCT GEILIE-GRANGE ITS HISTORICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ASSOCIATIONS LTHOUGH, strictly speaking, the old manor-house called the Grange is unable to lay claim to the historic interest of an ancient feudal tower, whose titled lords are enrolled in the earliest annals of our international wars, the pic turesque mansion has a charm peculiarly its own, allied, as we find it ever to have been, with the ecclesiastical and literary men of the nation, such as have wielded the pen rather than the battle-axe and the spear, though many of these ancient warlike trophies do at present form a goodly share in its interior adornment. When and by whom it was originally built is enshrouded in the hazy mystery of the past. No document seems to be extant giving us any clue as to whether the foundation-stone was laid by Lord or by Abbot.

There is, however, sufficient evidence of a certain amount of antiquity in the ecclesiastical record A of its name. About 1112 Alexander 1. had erected a new Parish Kirk in Edinburgh, which he dedicated to St. Giles, a name so familiar in our day that it seems difficult to believe this tutelary saint was not a sturdy Pict or Scot, but of Grecian origin and of royal birth. The fame of 'Sanct Geill and his Hynde' had been widely spread over the continent of Europe many years ere his name was a familiar by-word for sanctity in Scotland. It is believed by antiquarians versed in ancient ecclesiastical records that there had been a church in ' Edwinsburch dedicated to St. Egidius, or Giles, as early as S54.'1 That may be, but we shall certainly not attempt to tack our ' Sanct Geilie-Grange' on to it.