Isobel (Hepburn) Lauder (abt. 1570 - aft. 1639)

Wife of George Lauder Knt PC — married 7 Feb 1589 in Leven, Fife, Scotland.

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Biography

"Issobelle Hepburne" is described as the eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Hepburn of Waughton and future wife of George Lauder of Bass.^[1]

Hannan mentions that in 1617 Isabella Hepburn, Lady Bass, made additions to Tyninghame Mansion House (also stated in Memorials of the Earls of Haddington by Sir William Fraser, Edinburgh, 1889, p.xxxiv), a property he says was owned as long ago as 1094 by the Lairds of The Bass. Fraser states that "in the library of Tynninghame there are still several old folio volumes bearing the name of Lauder of the Bass, and these may have been acquired at the purchase of the estate."^[2]

In the Tynninghame Kirk Session book it is recorded that "Andrew Law, and honest man, being ane agit man, grieve [farm overseer] to ye Ladie Bass" was "lying deidlie sik in ane hous." The Kirk Session sent him food and drink and a message to Ladie Bass. 2nd January 1620. On the 6th August the same year she is again mentioned. On 4th February 1621 she paid 18 shillings for penalties to the Kirk for her servants breaking the Sabbath upon her instructions to work. In October 1621 began a famine which lasted three years, and on 10th March 1622 Ladie Bass gave four bollis of victuall for the school at Tynninghame.^[3]

On the 2nd December 1628 George Lauder of The Bass and Dame Isobel Hepburn, Lady Bass, his mother, represented by Alexander Hepburn in Edinburgh, petitioned the Lords of Secret Council for a Warrant that they not be prosecuted if they left their castle on The Bass and repaired to Edinburgh, and travelled anywhere else in the county, in order to deal with their financial affairs and their creditors. Granted, until the 20th February following.^[4]

"That a missive be written to the Lady Bass requiring her to deliver John Smith, her servant, to Sir John Home of North Berwick to be brought in by him to His Majesty's Council to be examined upon the crime of witchcraft of which he is a suspect. Dated 1st July 1630."^[5]

"Dame Isobel Hepburn Lady Bass" was mentioned as still alive in a charter of The Great Seal, number 413 and dated 28th October 1635.

Sources

1. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, charter number 1628 confirmed at Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, on 7th February 1589.
2. ↑ Famous Scottish Houses by Thomas Hannan, London 1928, p.182.
3. ↑ The Churches of Saint Baldred by A.E.Ritchie, Edinburgh, 1880, pps:184, 192, 198, 200.
4. ↑ Registrum Councilii Secreti, 1628-9, fol.67, cited in The Churches of St.Baldred by A.E.Ritchie, Edinburgh, 1880, pps: 56-8.
5. ↑ Register of the Privy Council, 2nd Series, vol.iii, p.587 & 603.