. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. randfather (1436), the three elder daughters were left jointheiresses in the lands of Auldcathie. The Sheriff of Linlithgow being com-manded to infeft them, they were, according to the old Scotch legal custom,presented with ea7-th and stone, as symbols of legal delivery and possession. As they came of age, they each received their portion of the estates. Mariota(by some called Marion Lauder) inherited the Chemys or Manor-House ofHowman, and a quarter of the whole barony, also half of Swynset, the othe
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. randfather (1436), the three elder daughters were left jointheiresses in the lands of Auldcathie. The Sheriff of Linlithgow being com-manded to infeft them, they were, according to the old Scotch legal custom,presented with ea7-th and stone, as symbols of legal delivery and possession. As they came of age, they each received their portion of the estates. Mariota(by some called Marion Lauder) inherited the Chemys or Manor-House ofHowman, and a quarter of the whole barony, also half of Swynset, the otherhalf belonging to her youngest sister, Elizabeth, with a quarter of the lands ofHowman—but by the time she was old enough to take possession of her inheri-tance, the three elder sisters had divided the lands of Auldcathie, and marriedinto the ancient families of Home, Rutherford, and Wardlaw. Halton House. By J. R. Findlay, Esq. Register of the Great Seal, 1306-1424, p. 48, No. 104, ^ Historical MSS., Athole and Home, p. 109. CHAPTER XVI THE LAUDERS OF BASS AS CHURCHMEN AND AMBASSADORS. My spreit hartlie I recommende In Manus tuas Domine ; My hope to thee is to ascende Rex quia redeinisli vie. Sir David Lindsay. UDGING from some of their earliest records, it is evidentthe Lauders were as well known in the church as in theCamp. It is no matter of surprise, therefore, for us to findthat Sir Alan de Lawdre, one of Scotlands bravestwarriors, should have been the father of two bishops(William, Bishop of Glas- ^._^.j^_-,.^,.w^ r^ gow, and AlexanderLauder, Bishop of Dunkeld), for in thosedays the most renowned statesmen were thechurchmen, on account of their scholarship. But it is not often we find threebrothers holding such high positions of re-sponsibility in the State at the same time—for out of the five sons of Sir Alan, theeldest, Sir Robert de Lawedreof Lauder andBass, was Lord Justice of Scotland ; William,Bishop of Glasgow, was Lord Chancellor;and Alexander, before he was
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