. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. e Lawedre and AHcia Campbell his spouse, daughter ofSir Colin Campbell of Loch Awe, ninth of the Argyll Alan had purchased this extensive estate, which isdesignated as the zvhole town of Haltouii with the per-tinents, from Johnde Haltoun, the \ Kings true tenant, in consequence of the said proprietor having fallen into very distressed circumstances. The charter was granted by King Robert li. as Baron Ratho, and superior thereof, •signed at Kyndrocht on the 26th July 377/just three years aft
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. e Lawedre and AHcia Campbell his spouse, daughter ofSir Colin Campbell of Loch Awe, ninth of the Argyll Alan had purchased this extensive estate, which isdesignated as the zvhole town of Haltouii with the per-tinents, from Johnde Haltoun, the \ Kings true tenant, in consequence of the said proprietor having fallen into very distressed circumstances. The charter was granted by King Robert li. as Baron Ratho, and superior thereof, •signed at Kyndrocht on the 26th July 377/just three years after the same lands had been leased by the King to Johnde deed was signed and sealed at Skoone. Sir Alan, whose acts we have already recorded, evidently lived until 1401, as in that year William de Naper, fourth Baron of Merchiston, Constable of Edinburgh Castle, witnessed a charter to Alan de Lawedre, who must have been fully ninety years of age at the time. Of his five sons, the eldest. Sir Robert, inherited Lauder Tower Kcgistnim Magni Sigilli, 1306-1424, p. 14S, No. COAT-OF-ARMS—LAUDER OF HALTOUN THE LAUDERS OF HALTOUN AND BRUNTISFIELD 223 and the Bass; and George, the second son, became first Baron Lauder ofHaltoun. He had already obtained the lands of Sornefawlache, at Grein-hill, in the Barony of Wistoun, from Sir James Sandilands of Calderby the resignation of Marion Pittendreich.^ Sir George de Lawedre marriedLord Douglass sister,- and had one son, Alexander, who succeeded himIn 1408 Sir Alexander, second Laird of Halton, married Elizabeth Forster,daughter of Sir John Forster of Corstorfyne, and according to custom heresigned his lands at Ratho into the hands of his superior, to obtain aregrant in the conjunct names of himself and his spouse. The deed isgranted by Robert, Duke of Albany, the governor, on the 17th December inthe parish church of Dundee, and Sir Alexanders uncle, William, who hadthat year been nominated Bishop of Glasgow, witnessed
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