. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. desired in thelovely month of leafy June. Butwhat of winters lengthy calendar,when old King Frost holdssway and every sparklingdrop is an icicle? The usual appendagewhich marks a baronialdwelling of the sixteenthcentury is not amissingat Fountainhall, for theold dovecot stands be-neath the stately trees asof yore. But what is mostunusual, it has a fine speci-men of the Jougs fixedinto the wall. This ancientinstrument of ecclesiasti-cal and baronial disciplinewas more generally affixedto the parish chu
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. desired in thelovely month of leafy June. Butwhat of winters lengthy calendar,when old King Frost holdssway and every sparklingdrop is an icicle? The usual appendagewhich marks a baronialdwelling of the sixteenthcentury is not amissingat Fountainhall, for theold dovecot stands be-neath the stately trees asof yore. But what is mostunusual, it has a fine speci-men of the Jougs fixedinto the wall. This ancientinstrument of ecclesiasti-cal and baronial disciplinewas more generally affixedto the parish church or thenearest tolbooth. In 1592it had been enacted that irons and stocks were to be provided in every parish for the punishmentof idle beggars and vagabonds, and we know the kirk at Pencaitland certainlyadhered to the law in this respect, as the jougs are also to be seen thereyet. But as Lord Fountainhall was a Judge in the Court of Session aswell as an elder in his parish church, it is hard to say whether this ancient terror of evil-doers was most frequently used upon Church or State. VELL IN THE GLEN. Account of the Aluniii. 1816, No. 43, p. j incus ChalybealThese waters Spring at Fountainhall, Thomsons Annals of from 60 to 80 parts of sulphate of iron in the R 314 THE BARONETS OF FOUNTAINHALL delinquents. But it is very evident, as Miss Dunlop once tritely remarked,there was a disposition in the country in those earlier times to punish sinon the person of the sinner, rather than make them a burden on thetax-paying public Certainly they had afearsome array of personal punishments,and it would be a difficult question todecide which of them—the Branks, theJougs, the Stocks, the Ducking-Stool, or theWhipping-Post—was most dreaded by thosesixteenth-century miserable sinners. This ancient parish church at Pencait-land, so intimately connected with Fountain-hall, dates back to 1213, and undoubtedlythe oldest part of it bears the moss-grownappearance of
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