. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. The situation is beautified by the woods of GlenUrquhart on the west, and Ruiskie woods to the south. This Sir Archibald Douglas had married Donnagilla, the daughter of Marjory Cuming, sister ofJohn Baliol.—Douglas Feera^e. - Boethius, Book xv. chap. 5 ; and also Hailes Annals, vol. ii. p. 168. AS WARRIORS 163 We are not told how long the aged knight, Sir Robert de Lawedre, whohad been Governor of Berwick Castle, lived after the battle of Halidon know that he received his Berwick fees, from th
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. The situation is beautified by the woods of GlenUrquhart on the west, and Ruiskie woods to the south. This Sir Archibald Douglas had married Donnagilla, the daughter of Marjory Cuming, sister ofJohn Baliol.—Douglas Feera^e. - Boethius, Book xv. chap. 5 ; and also Hailes Annals, vol. ii. p. 168. AS WARRIORS 163 We are not told how long the aged knight, Sir Robert de Lawedre, whohad been Governor of Berwick Castle, lived after the battle of Halidon know that he received his Berwick fees, from the entries in the accounts ofSir Alexander de Seton, collector of the burgh of Berwick at that period, for inthem we find: Item, 1329, Paid to Robert de Lawdre balance of his fee offifty marks, £6, 13s. 4d.; and also the next year: Paid to Robert de Lawdrefor his fee due at Martinmas, £-i,i, 6s. 8d. But the next entry evidently refersto his son : Item, Allowed to accountants for the fishery of Eidermouth, nowin possession of Sir Robert de Lawdre by right of inheritance, ^40, Os. od. ^. URQUHART CASTLE, LOCH NLbh. However, there is every reason to believe that the Baron of Bass namedamong the Scottish Commissioners appointed in 1335 to treat of peace betweenKing Edward and \oung David Bruce was the aged Justiciary of the Lothians,though, in consideration of his extreme age, his brave son, the Captain ofUrquhart Castle, would be sent as his proxy. These Scottish Commissionerswere Andrew Moray, William de Keith, Robert Lawder, and WilliamDouglas. - There is strong evidence of its having been the elder Sir Robert Lawedreof Bass that was appointed Commissioner, as he had been confirmed in hisoffice of Justiciary only the previous year (1334) by Edward III. himself, in hisregulating of the Government after his victory over the Scottish nation. Not 1 History of Bcrivuk. By John Scott, Esrj. - Fa:dcya, t. iv. p. 677. i64 THE LAUDERS OF LAUDER AND BASS that Sir Robert had accepted th
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