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  • At the same time this was no degrading condition; for Fountainhall records a duel fought between a

    Old Mortality 2004

  • See Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, selected from the manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, bart. 2 vols.

    Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball

  • Fountainhall in writing of the same convention of witches says that the

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • The house belonged, in the seventeenth century, to Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, a distinguished Scottish judge, who occasionally held courts of justice at his own residence.

    The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

  • There is another, single faced, on a corner of the old mansion of Fountainhall, thought to have been put up by Sir Andrew Lauder at the end of the eighteenth century.

    The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

  • There is a dial with two faces in a peculiar position at Fountainhall, Midlothian.

    The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

  • Fountainhall has recorded that in 1678 the Privy Council received the complaint of a poor woman who had been abused by a country magistrate and one of those impostors called prickers.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • Fountainhall, the most eminent counsel of the Scottish bar, utterly defeated him on every point.

    Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

  • But, according to Fountainhall, something very like it had been previously known under the homely name of "Pilliwincks," or "Pilniewinks."

    Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

  • Print Fountainhall A7 crash victim was road traffic policeman Grahame Allan was a serving road policing offer with the Lothian and Borders force The victim of a crash on the A7 has been identified as a serving road policing officer with Lothian and Borders Police.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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