. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. CHAPTER XXIII THE BARONETS OF FOUNTAINHALL. ■ The mosses of thy fountains still are sprinkledWith thine Elysian water-drops. :R JOHN LAUDER, third Baronet, succeeded his father,Lord Fountainhall, in the estates and title in 1722. Hewas already a man of mature age, and had celebrated hissilver wedding, the previous year, with Margaret Seton,the daughter of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, Bart.,one of the Senators of the College of Justice, as alreadymentioned ; but Sir John Lauder does not appear to
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. CHAPTER XXIII THE BARONETS OF FOUNTAINHALL. ■ The mosses of thy fountains still are sprinkledWith thine Elysian water-drops. :R JOHN LAUDER, third Baronet, succeeded his father,Lord Fountainhall, in the estates and title in 1722. Hewas already a man of mature age, and had celebrated hissilver wedding, the previous year, with Margaret Seton,the daughter of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, Bart.,one of the Senators of the College of Justice, as alreadymentioned ; but Sir John Lauder does not appear to haveattained to any special dignity in the Court of Session, nor yet to have madehimself in any way conspicuous in public events. He was strictly orthodox inhis principles, though most of the members of his wifes family were staunch Jaco-bites. He only enjoyed the old home and his titledinheritance about six years. He died in 1728, andhis place as head of the Lauder family was taken byhis eldest son, Sir Alexander, who had always re-mained under the paternal roof, being unmarried, andof a delicate constitution. He died two years
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