. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. nder Dickwas at that time Archdeacon of Glasgow—a zealous churchman of the Romishfaith,—and he also obtained a charter under the Great Seal, commencing Domino Alexandre, Archidecano Glasguen. terrarum de Dillerburn, Dogflatt,etc. etc., in the county of Peebles, etc., dated 29th September 1548. Wecannot say whether the Archdeacon and the merchant were brothers; buttravelling northward, we find the son of the latter settled in Kirkwall in theOrkneys, as a man of property and a man of letters, who seems
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. nder Dickwas at that time Archdeacon of Glasgow—a zealous churchman of the Romishfaith,—and he also obtained a charter under the Great Seal, commencing Domino Alexandre, Archidecano Glasguen. terrarum de Dillerburn, Dogflatt,etc. etc., in the county of Peebles, etc., dated 29th September 1548. Wecannot say whether the Archdeacon and the merchant were brothers; buttravelling northward, we find the son of the latter settled in Kirkwall in theOrkneys, as a man of property and a man of letters, who seems to have takenpart in the political and religious struggles in the latter end of Queen Marysreign. He is styled Alexander Dick, Provost of the Cathedral Church ofSt. Magnus, and being a man of learning, he had both influence and power inthe North—the Provost position being next in dignity after the Bishop. Froma Disposition dated 7th January- 1571, it appears that he sold a land of housesin Kirkwall to William Gude, burgess merchant there, which deed was after- THE DICKS OF ORKNEY 33. wards confirmed by royal charter on the 13th April 1576, with the consent ofRegent Moray, King James vi. being a minor. The fine old Cathedral of St. Magnus, of which Mr. Alexander Dick was Provost,was founded in 1138 by Rognvald, -iigiij^p - . Jarl of Orkney, as athankofiering for therecovery of his rights,and in honour of hisuncle, Jarl Magnus,who had been cruellymurdered in Egilshayby his own cousin, andafterwards canonised st. magnus . atukdral. by the Pope. This Cathedral of St. Magnus, with its massive proportions forming a completecross church, is still a noble monument of the power of these ancientNorsemen ; and while its colossal pillars stand, and its walls of red sand-stone—from the island cliffs—hold together, Orcadians are not likely toforget Saint Magnus, whose piety it was designed to commemorate, norSaint Ronald, who, aided by the wisdom of his father Kol, built
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