Lauder

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Lauder
Scottish Gaelic: Labhdar
Lauder Burgh Arms.jpg
Lauder Burgh Arms
Lauder is located in Scottish Borders
Lauder

 Lauder shown within the Scottish Borders
OS grid reference NT530475
Council area Scottish Borders
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Lauder
Postcode district TD2
Police Lothian and Borders
Fire Lothian and Borders
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
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The Royal Burgh of Lauder (Scottish Gaelic: Labhdar)[1] is a town in the Scottish Borders 27 miles south east of Edinburgh. It is also a royal burgh in the county of Berwickshire. It lies on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, on the Southern Upland Way.

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Medieval history [link]

Although Lauder sits in the valley of Leader Water, Watson notes that the names Lauder and Leader appear to be unconnected. In the earliest sources Lauder appears as Lauuedder and Louueder.[2]

Below Lauder are the lands of Kedslie which were bounded on the west by a road called "Malcolm's rode," and it is thought this formed part of the Roman road known as Dere Street, which passed through Lauder. Hardie suggests that it had been reconditioned by Malcolm III for use in his almost constant warfare against England. It is the only old road in Scotland that is associated with the name of an individual person.[3]

The ancient settlement was further up the hills on the edge of the Moor.[4] Its name is unknown, but it was tiny.[5] The New Statistical Account of Scotland (vol.II) says that the present town of Lauder existed as a kirk-town in the time of David I (1124–53), and Sir J.D.Marwick says, in his preface to the Records of Convention, that the present town of Lauder existed in the latter half of the twelfth century. The town was once surrounded by walls with gates commonly referred to as 'ports'. Two major mills, which dated from the 12th century, also served the town.

With the introduction of the feudal system to Scotland by David I, a provincial Lordship of Regality of Lauderdale, had been created for the King's favourite, Hugh de Morville (who founded Dryburgh Abbey), which covered an extensive amount of territory, although Thomson states that the family of de Lawedre were "there in the previous century."[6] About 1170 Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland, made a donation to the Brethren of the Hospital at Lauder, in 1245 a chapter of the clergy of East Lothian met at Lauder, and between 1248-52 Emericus is recorded as Rector of Lauder.[7]

Joseph Bain states that the de Morville's held one-third of half Lauder and Lauderdale for one knight's service. It would appear that de Morville's superiority did not extend over the entire valley of Lauderdale which, by his own demarcation recorded in the Chronicle of Melrose, stopped at the Lauder burn south of the town.[8] This appears to be confirmed by the fact that a charter mentions Hugo de Morville possessing half of the mill of Lauder [9] being the mill lands and rights south of the Lauder Burn, the other half being in the possession of the Lauder family.

An early member of the Lauder family, Sir Robert de Lawedre of The Bass (c1275 - September 1337) was Justiciar of Lothian as early as 1316. He received a charter dated 4 March 1316, from John Graham of Abercorn, of his lands of Dalcoif, parish of Merton, Berwickshire.[10] The superiority of this property remained in that family for centuries. In 1683 Christina Home, the granddaughter of the last Robert Lauder of that Ilk (d. before July 1655) was retoured heir to it.[11]

The same Robert de Lawedre, knt., was one of the witnesses to two charters of confirmation to Jedburgh Abbey on the 20th December 1316, signed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.[12] James Young [13] quotes a document written in French, and dated 4 September 1319, entitled: "Lettre d'attorne pur doner seysine," and is granted to "Robert de Lawedir Justice de Lounes, [Lothians]....Donez a la langley en la terre de Meuros [Melrose] le quartior de Septembre en lan de grace MCCC et disneifme."

Above the burgh of Lauder, abutting Lauder Moor and the boundaries of Wedale and the lands of Ladypart, were the lands of Alanshaws, granted to the monks of Melrose by Alan of Galloway, the Constable of Scotland although by 1500 these too were already in the hands of the Lauders of that Ilk,[14] probably by feu. The superiority of Ladypart remained in the hands of the Lauder of Bass family until the 17th century. The Exchequer Rolls record a reconfirmation of them to Robert Lauder of The Bass who died in 1576.[15]

This family erected a Scottish tower house, "the beginning of authentic history as far as the town is concerned," [6] around which the present town grew, and "Alan Lawedir of the Tower of Lawedir" is mentioned in 1445.[16] The Registers of the Privy Council of Scotland refer to an inter-family litigation over the tower in 1598.[17]

Lauder Tower stood in what in 1903 was known as Tower Yard, a garden area then bounded by the Free Kirk Manse and the County Police Station, close by the Easter Port. The road west from the town crossed the Midrow and passed Tower Yard, then passed by Lauder Mill. A continuation of the road went onwards to Chester Hill.[18] It was not taken down until 1700.[19] Interestingly, in Lauder & Lauderdale [20] it is stated that in 1837 "the new United Presbyterian manse was built on a site which was purchased, for £115, from Baillie [George] Lauder."

Lauder's tolbooth

Notable buildings in the town today include the Tolbooth or Town Hall, which predates 1598 when records show it being burnt by a party of Homes and Cranstouns led by Lord Home, in a feud between them and the Lauder family who were at the time sitting on the bench as hereditary baillies.[21]

The last of the ancient proprietors, Robert Lauder of that Ilk (d.c1650), bequeathed the tower house and other lands to his daughter Isobel, who had married Alexander Home of St.Leonards, in Lauderdale, both dead by November 1683, the major part of the inheritance sold. The old family is today represented by Sir Piers Dick-Lauder, 13th Baronet.

Thirlestane Castle [link]

Below the town, on Castle Hill, stood the Crown Fort, a scene of many skirmishes over the years. It is shown on Timothy Pont's map. Early records give de Morville a castle at Lauder, but it would appear that there was a new erection of it by the English in the reign of King Edward I. James III and James IV both used the castle. In 1548 the fort was occupied and stengthened by Somerset, the Protector, and garrisoned by Sir Hugh Willoughby 'in the end of winter and beginning of spring'. After a minor siege with French cannon, it was evacuated on March 22, 1550. The following year John Haitlie in Fawns and William Haitlie in Redpath (near Earlston) were arrested for "treasonably supplying the English in the Castle of Lauder, thereby enabling them to hold out longer."[22] The Crown which had in any case abandoned the fort during its occupation, had given it to Robert Lauder of that Ilk (d. bef July 1567), who provided it, in 1532, to his daughter Alison as dowry when she married.[23] Following she and her husband's deaths in feuds in 1547 it reverted to Robert Lauder whose wife was Alison Cranstoun. A Cranstoun relation later sold it on to Chancellor John Maitland[disambiguation needed ] in 1587. He commenced the building of the magnificent Thirlestane Castle upon that site two years later, parts of the original walls of the ancient fort being included in the walls of the new edifice In 1670-7 Sir William Bruce, known as a 'gentleman architect', supervised its transformation into a palace through remodelling for the Duke of Lauderdale.

By the 18th century the Maitlands had supplanted the ancient Lauders as the pre-eminent local family, and had managed to acquire most of the properties which had belonged to the ancient family, although Windpark/Wyndepark (which overlooked Thirlestane Castle) and its Pele Tower remained in the hands of John Lauder of Winepark and Carolside (near Earlston), until about 1750.

Church [link]

Lauder's Church of Scotland kirk in 2001

Near to the old Crown Fort stood the ancient parish church of St.Mary (a dependency of Dryburgh Abbey). In a Writ of c1217 an "Everardus" is recorded as pastor of Laweder, and in 1245 there was a Chapter of the Clergy of East Lothian at Lauder on Saturday after the Feast of Saint Peter, ad vincula, when a dispute was settled between the Priory of St. Andrews and the nuns of Haddington, regarding the tithes of Stevenstoun, nr.Haddington.[24] In this original church many of the old Lauder family were interred, including two bishops, William de Lawedre, Bishop of Glasgow and Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and Alexander Lauder, Bishop of Dunkeld. It was from this church, in 1482, that James III's favourites, including the architect Cochrane, were dragged by envious nobles and hanged from the (earlier) Lauder Bridge. With their local ascendancy, and with Thirlestane Castle becoming even grander, John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale decided he would demolish the ancient kirk, and had a new church erected by Sir William Bruce in 1673 in the centre of the Royal Burgh. Around it is a walled graveyard, with a watchhouse built after a bodysnatching raid in 1830.

There was also (now demolished) a large United Presbyterian Church at the West Port. The manse still stands, but is now a private residence.

Today [link]

The current population of the town is around 1500 although it is rapidly expanding as over 100 new homes are being built on the southern boundary. This means that, at the beginning of the 21st century, the population is approaching what it was at the beginning of the 20th century before the period of depopulation over the last 100 years.

Lauder is today strongly influenced by its proximity to Edinburgh as it is now considered to be close enough for people to commute into the capital for work. The bus service to Edinburgh is reliable but infrequent.

Current issues for debate in Lauder are the town's expansion - whether it is needed or desirable - the location of a new primary school (and how soon one will be built), and the location and extent of wind farms on the surrounding hills.

Notable Natives [link]

Thomas Dickson (1822–1884), industrialist, founder of The Dickson Manufacturing Company, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway

See also [link]

Notes [link]

  1. ^ An Stòr-dàta Briathrachais [1], retrieved 16.02.2010
  2. ^ Watson, The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1926, reprinted 2004: 271.
  3. ^ Hardie, R.P., The Roads of Mediaeval Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 1942: xi and 85
  4. ^ Hardie, R.P., The Roads of Mediaeval Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 1942: 85
  5. ^ Maine's Village Communities, 1871, pps:95-6
  6. ^ a b Thomson, A., FSA (Scot)., Lauder and Lauderdale, Galashiels, 1902: 21
  7. ^ Spottiswood, John, & Fraser, William, editors, Liber St Marie de Dryburgh, Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1847, pps: 207, xiii, 224-7.
  8. ^ Hardie, R.P., The Roads of Mediaeval Lauderdale, Edinburgh, 1942: 72-3
  9. ^ Spottiswood, John, & Fraser, William, editors, Liber St Marie de Dryburgh, Bannatyne Club, Edinbrugh, 1847, p.314
  10. ^ Angus, William, editor, Miscellany of The Scottish History Society, 'Miscellaneous Charters 1315-1401' from translations in the collection of the late Sir William Fraser, KCB, LLD,volume 5, Edinburgh 1933, pps.6, 50/51.
  11. ^ Inquisitiones Speciales, number 414 for Berwickshire, 1st Nov 1683, Edinburgh.
  12. ^ The Great Seal of Scotland, charters, numbers 92 & 93.
  13. ^ Young, James, editor, Notes on Historical References to the Scottish Family of Lauder, Glasgow, 1884, p.19.
  14. ^ Romanes, Charles S., CA., Melrose Regality Records, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1917, vol.3: xxxv-xxxvi
  15. ^ Mackay, A.E.J.G., MA,LL.D, editor, The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, volume XIV, 1513-1522, Edinburgh, 1893: 619-620
  16. ^ Historic Manuscripts Commission - MSS of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, London, 1902: p262
  17. ^ Stodart, R.R., Scottish Arms, Edinburgh, 1881, vol.II, p174, (following Alexander Nisbet, 1722), mentions the granting of Arms to Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet c1672, as "descended of the old family of Lauder of that Ilk", which Arms carried in dexter canton a tower representing Lauder Tower.
  18. ^ Romanes, Robert, Lauder: a Series of Papers, 1903
  19. ^ Lauderdale Accounts in the National Archives of Scotland
  20. ^ Thomson, A.,FSA(Scot), Lauder & Lauderdale, Galashiels, 1902
  21. ^ Mackie, J.D., CBE., MC., LL.D., editor, Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland 1547-1603, Edinburgh, 1969, vol. XIII, Part 1, number 156, pps: 205, 207-8
  22. ^ Thomson, A., FSA(Scot)., Lauder and Lauderdale, Galashiels, 1902: 178-181
  23. ^ The Great Seal of Scotland, charter no. 1186, confirmed at Edinburgh July 1, 1532.
  24. ^ Liber de Dryburgh, pps: 13 and 269

References [link]

  • Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, edited by Joseph Bain, Edinburgh, 1881-8, vol.2, p. 215-6.
  • The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, by William J. Watson, Edinburgh, 1926, reprinted 2004. ISBN 1-84158-323-5
  • The Grange of St.Giles, by J.Stewart-Smith, Edinburgh, 1898.
  • Lauder and Lauderdale, by A.Thomson, Galashiels, 1900.
  • Lauder, a Series of Papers, by Robert Romanes, Galashiels, 1903.
  • Borders and Berwick, by Charles A Strang, Rutland Press, 1994, p. 190. ISBN 1-873190-10-7

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Lauder is a town in the Scottish Borders 27 miles south east of Edinburgh.

Lauder may also refer to:

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  • Lauder, New Zealand, a small community in Central Otago, New Zealand
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  • Lauder College or Carnegie College
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  • Leonard Lauder (son) (b. 1934)
  • Ronald Lauder (son) (b. 1944)
  • William P. Lauder (grandson)
  • George Lauder (disambiguation)
  • Harry Lauder (1870-1950), Scottish music-hall entertainer
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