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At the same time this was no degrading condition; for Fountainhall records a duel fought between a
Old Mortality 2004
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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There is a dial with two faces in a peculiar position at Fountainhall, Midlothian.
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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.
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Fountainhall, the most eminent counsel of the Scottish bar, utterly defeated him on every point.
Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879
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But, according to Fountainhall, something very like it had been previously known under the homely name of "Pilliwincks," or "Pilniewinks."
Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879
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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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