. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. CHAPTER XXI THE LAUDERS OF LAUDERDALE A house there stands on Leader side Surmounting my descriving,With rooms sae rare, and windows fair, Like Daedalus passing by do aften cry, In sooth it hath no marrow : It stands as fair on Leader side, As Newark does on Yarrow. NiCOL BURNE. • O discuss the ancient burgh of Lauder without recalling thehistory of these old bailies would be like acting Hamletand leaving out the ghost; for in all royal burghs theoffice of baronial bailie was analogous
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. CHAPTER XXI THE LAUDERS OF LAUDERDALE A house there stands on Leader side Surmounting my descriving,With rooms sae rare, and windows fair, Like Daedalus passing by do aften cry, In sooth it hath no marrow : It stands as fair on Leader side, As Newark does on Yarrow. NiCOL BURNE. • O discuss the ancient burgh of Lauder without recalling thehistory of these old bailies would be like acting Hamletand leaving out the ghost; for in all royal burghs theoffice of baronial bailie was analogous to that of chiefalderman in England. In the earlier ages the positionwas hereditary, and the title one of honour and distinction,the duties being those of chief civil magistrate in theKings burgh, with judicial and legislative authority, held of the Crown the same time it appears evident that in higher criminal cases the bailiesof the burgh were subject to the unlimited jurisdiction of the sheriff, who waschief man of the shire. The office of Sheriff-depute of Berwickshire was
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