LAUDER, Robert of the Bass ^{2 3 4}

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  General Notes:

"Robert, the younger son of Sir Robert Lauder, was therefore made Laird of Bass, and inherited the East Lothian lands; and with his patrimony he also inherited the Lauders' loyalty to the house of Stuart, for his name appears among those who gathered in defence of Scotland's hapless Queen on Carberry Hill in 1567."

from The grange of St Giles ⁵

Robert married.

Robert next married Margaret SINCLAIR, daughter of Sir Oliver SINCLAIR of Roslin and Margaret BORTHWICK. (Margaret SINCLAIR was born about 1510 and died before 1558 ⁶.)

Robert next married Elizabeth HAY, daughter of John HAY 4th Lord Hay of Yester, Sheriff of Peebles and Unknown, 22 August 1558(contract).¹ (Elizabeth HAY was born about 1540.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John, third Lord Hay, had also a natural daughter Elizabeth, who had letters of legitimation under the Great Seal 18 August 1558, when she is called natural daughter of the late John, Lord Hay of Yester, grandfather of William, then Lord Hay of Yester (Reg. Mag. Sig.) On 22 August 1558 she was, with consent of her cousin, Thomas Hay of Smithfield, contracted to Robert Lauder of Bass (Reg. of Deeds, iii. 231).' "

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)

Note: The grandfather of William Hay appears to have been the 3rd not the 4th Lord Hay of Yester. ¹