Whitslaid Tower
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Whitslaid Tower was an ancient seat of the Lauder family for over 300 years. It is today a ruin high above the banks of the Leader Water two miles south of the burgh of Lauder on the A68.
In the National Archives (GD86/7) are Letters of Bailiary by Robert, Steward of Scotland (later Robert II King of Scots), Earl of Stratherne and baron of the barony of Renfrewe, with consent of John Steward, Earl of Carrick, his eldest son, constituting Alan de Lawedir, (feudal) tenant of Whytslade, their bailie of the lands and tenandries of Byrkynsyde, Ligeardwod [Legerwood], Morystoun [Morristoun], Whytslade and Auldynstoun, within the sheriffdom of Berwick-upon-Tweed, with the power to hold courts at any place in the lordship he pleases, to punish excesses, repledge men dwelling on their lands to their liberties etc, and to do any other thing pertaining to the office of bailie, dated October 16, 1369. One of the witnesses was Sir John de Lyle [or d'Lisle]. (This charter is also referred to in The Scots' Peerage by Sir James Balfour Paul, Edinburgh, 1908, volume V, p.550).
(There was another Whitslaid near Selkirk, a Scott property).
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