. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. STONE OVER OF JOHN KNOX. PART II CHAPTER XV. THE LAUDERS OF LAUDER AND BASS: AS WARRIORS Scotland, involved in factious broils,Groand deep beneath her woes and toils. Years dark have followed darker years,And treasons clouds and factions fears,And Scotlands blood and Scotlands sordid rivalry. The Harpers Song. E shall not attempt to lay before our readers the wide-spreading branches of a genealogical tree—for, naturallyenough, the longer the pedigree, the more intricate thebran
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. STONE OVER OF JOHN KNOX. PART II CHAPTER XV. THE LAUDERS OF LAUDER AND BASS: AS WARRIORS Scotland, involved in factious broils,Groand deep beneath her woes and toils. Years dark have followed darker years,And treasons clouds and factions fears,And Scotlands blood and Scotlands sordid rivalry. The Harpers Song. E shall not attempt to lay before our readers the wide-spreading branches of a genealogical tree—for, naturallyenough, the longer the pedigree, the more intricate thebranches thereof; but it is well that we should at leastglance over the earliest records of the Lauder family, forby so doing we come upon those valuable old chartersupon the rights and privileges of which so much stress was laid from the thirteenth to the sixteenth cen-turies—though to the generality of non-participators, they simply mean long scrolls of parchment in black-lettered Latin, almost indecipherable ; and it is fortunate for some of us when we come across any of these ancient family jewels in a modern setting. Such is the old charter
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