. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. :— The Lauders of Haltoun became extinct in the seventeenth century, and theirrepresentation devolved on the Maitland family by the marriage of Elizabeth Lauder, the Registriim Ma^ni Sigilli, vol. fol. i66, No. I !50 THE LAUDERS heiress of Haltoun with Charles, third Earl of Lauderdale. That descent we haveinherited through my fathers mother, Lady Julian Maitland ; ^ so that after a lapse ofnearly three hundred years, the descendants of the original possessors inhabit the oldhouse again.
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. :— The Lauders of Haltoun became extinct in the seventeenth century, and theirrepresentation devolved on the Maitland family by the marriage of Elizabeth Lauder, the Registriim Ma^ni Sigilli, vol. fol. i66, No. I !50 THE LAUDERS heiress of Haltoun with Charles, third Earl of Lauderdale. That descent we haveinherited through my fathers mother, Lady Julian Maitland ; ^ so that after a lapse ofnearly three hundred years, the descendants of the original possessors inhabit the oldhouse again. After the purchase of Bruntisfield by George ^Varrender, it remained for nearly ahundred years in possession of the younger branch of the family, which came to an endin 1820, by the death of Hugh Warrender, an old bachelor, who was Crown Agent forScodand. He was succeeded by his cousin, my grand-uncle, the Right Hon. Sir GeorgeWarrender, , who, on taking possession, discovered the existence of a secret house was then thickly covered with ivy. Lee, the Royal Academician and. BRUNTISFIELD HOUSE. Architect that Sir George had brought down from London with him, was the first tosuspect its existence, from finding more windows outside than they could account old woman who had charge of the house denied for a long time any knowledge ofsuch a room, but, frightened by Sir Georges threats, she at length showed them thenarrow entrance that was concealed behind a piece of tapestry. This was torn down andthe door forced open, and a room was found just as it had been left by some formeroccupant; the ashes still in the grate. Whether, as one story said, it had been used as ahiding-place in troubled times, or whether, according to another legend, it had been theroom of a dearly loved child of the house, after whose death it had been hurriedly shut Lady Julian-Jane Maitland, fourth daughter of James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale ;1 John Warrender, Esq.—Burkes Baronage. Har
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