Robert Lauder

Robert Lauder of The Bass (born before 1504 – died June 1576) was an important noble in Haddingtonshire, the Merse, and Fife. Stodart remarks that "to 1600 the barons of the Bass sat in almost every parliament". He was a firm supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots whom he accompanied to Carberry Hill on 14 June 1567, and fought for at the battle of Langside. Family and estates He was the son of Sir Robert Lauder of the Bass (died between July 1517 – February 1518/9) by his spouse Elizabeth Lawson, who invested him in fee in Edrington, county Berwick, whilst still a child. Following his father's death , on 29 April 1519, Robert was invested in his paternal estates which included The Bass, the lands of Edrington with tower, mill, fishings and all pertinents extending to 15 husbandlands (390 acres);the town and territory of Simprin and the lands of Ladypart (near Lauder) with pertinents, Mersington with Mill, all in Berwickshire; the lands of Stenton, Duchry, Johnscleuch, Pencaitland, Newhall, Popill, Whitelaw, Wester Spott &c., Beil with its tower, mill &c., all in East Lothian. He took possession of Auldcathie in West Lothian, and Ummarchie in the barony of Kirriemuir in Angus. On 4 January 1528/9 the Commendator of Scone Abbey granted him a hereditary feu of the lands and manor of Lochend, near Dunbar. Robert Lauder had a feu from the Prior & Convent of Dundee of the lands of "Kilduntane", Sheriffdom of Fife and the lands of "Cyr, lyand within ye Barony of Seygden" and Sheriffdom of Perth. King James V gave him, under the Privy Seal of Scotland, the mails and duties of landis in the sheriffdoms of Edinburgh and Berwick, dated 17 July 1532.