. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. ponevery building they erected. This crossCorporation laws, for they were not allowed to submit to any jurisdiction butthat of their own spiritual lords. So masterful had they become in the twelfthand thirteenth centuries that they possessed lands in every county and nearlyevery parish of Scotland. Their first instalment, like most of the otherreligious orders, had taken place in the reign of David I. The Templars,however, were cast in a very different mould from the monks, and had noconnection with p
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. ponevery building they erected. This crossCorporation laws, for they were not allowed to submit to any jurisdiction butthat of their own spiritual lords. So masterful had they become in the twelfthand thirteenth centuries that they possessed lands in every county and nearlyevery parish of Scotland. Their first instalment, like most of the otherreligious orders, had taken place in the reign of David I. The Templars,however, were cast in a very different mould from the monks, and had noconnection with parish churches, though one of their carved lintels has foundits way to the Grange of St. Giles. There is also another old stone which cannot fail to be of historical interestto many, being one of the very few relics of the ancient University of Edin-burgh, and a lasting memento of Dr. Robertson as Principal. It consists of the Burgh Arms, which had graced the portal of the quaintsquare tower of the original College of King James in 1583, upon the T. Fullers Holy Warn, Itook ii. chap. STONE—BURGH AKMS. marked them as beyond the Civic 366 OLD STONES, FAMILY RELICS, demolition of which this sculptured stone was removed to the residence of theenergetic promoter of the new buildings, and eventually was built into thegrand archway leading from the avenue to the mansion at Sanct stone had been completely hidden for many years, by the wealth andweight of the overhanging ivy, consequently few knew of its existence, until Mr. Gibson, the gardener, unveiled^ it in 1893, while trimming this over-luxuriant evergreen. Thearms are quite decipherable,thoughconsiderably weather-worn. Anotherof these time-honouredfolklore relics, so full of pastassociations, is the Penny Well,in the Grange Loan, which, withits quaint mural tablet and ever-flowing stream, belonged fromtime immemorial to the oldmanor-house. It was one of the most interest-ing curiosities of the last cent
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