LAUDER, Hector

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  General Notes:

"Hector Lauder presumed son of Alan because of the Lauderdale & Douglas connexions. Hector was one of the many witnesses to a Notorial Instrument for a Retour for Philip de Mowbray, Lord of Dalmeny, done at the latter place on 8th November 1430. James de Lawedre 'a noble squire and baillie of all the lands of Dalmeny' presided as judge at the Retour. This James is presumably Hector's uncle, the Justice-Clerk. (Refer: 'Memorials of the Earls of Haddington' by Sir William Fraser, KCB, LL.D., vol.ii: Correspondence and charters, Edinburgh 1889, p.229-230.)

At a Retour of Inquest held at Lauder, on Monday 31st October 1440, George Ker was confirmed as heir of the lands of Samuelston, held in chief of the Earl of Douglas, Lord of the Regality of Lauderdale. Jurors included, Alan & Gilbert Lauder [brothers], Hector Lauder, William Lauder, Thomas Lauder, and John Lauder of Burngrains. (Refer: '12th Report of the Historic Manuscripts Commission - MSS of the Duke of Athole, and the Earl of Home', London, 1891, p.161.) Hector de Lawedre acted as attorney for George Douglas, Earl of Angus in the granting of a Sasine to the latter on 3rd January 1456. Witnesses included William de Douglas of Cavers, David Scot of Eckford, and 'many others'. (Refer: 'The Douglas Book' by William Fraser, C.B.,LL.D., vol.iii, Charters, Edinburgh, 1885, p.85-6.)"

from Ancestry & Family of Lauder of Fountainhall