xxii JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER

Hi.qtoricat Noticea of Scottish ~ffaira, had actually proceeded
to press to page 304 in 1825, when the misfortunes of the
publisher put a stop to the enterprise. After an interval of
several years the greater portion of Sir Thomas's transcripts
was placed at the disposal of the Bannatyne Club.' The
result was the publication of the Observes and the Hiatorical
Notices. Mr. Laing adds, 1 If at any subsequent time some
of his missing :~iSB. should be discovered, another volume of
Selections, to include his early Journal and enracts from
his smaller notebooks, might not be undeserving the atten-
tion of the Bannatyne Club.' The Journal in France, though
never printed, was reviewed by hir. Cosmo Innes in 1864
in the North Briti~h Review, v ol. xli. p. 170.

OUTLI\E OF FOU\'TAI\H?vl.L's LIFE

A short relation of Lord Fountainhalrs life is given in
Mr. David Laings preface to the Hiatorical :oticc~. He
was born in 1646. His father was John Lauder, merchant
and bailie of Edinburgh, of the family of Laudcr of that
Ilk.1 He graduated as ~Iaster of Arts in the University of
Edinburgh in 1664. He went to France to study in 1665,
and returned from abroad in 1667. He was 1 admittc-(l as
an advocate in 1668. He was married in 1669 to Janet,
daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshal1,2 Provost of
Edinburgh, afterwards a Lord of Session. In 1674, along
with the leaders of the bar and the majority of the profes-
sion, he was 1 debarred' or suspended from practising by the

1 Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall is deschended of the Lauders of that ilk,
and his paternall coat is immatriculate and registrate in the Lyons Book of
Herauldrie.Unprinted rts. by Lauder, in possession of Sir T. N. Dick Lauder.
A Genealogical Roll in loiS., of the Lauder Family, compiled by Sir T. Dick
Lauder, also in the present baronet's possession, has afforded much useful
information and for Lauder's family connections, I have also consulted loirs,
Atholl Forbes's ~uriotilict of a S~otlith Charler Ch~tl, and ?tirs. Stewart Smith's
Grangt of Sl. Ciltt.

2 See Appendix III,