Lauder

Lauder, a quaint little royal burgh of Berwickshire, on Leader Water, 25 miles SE. of Edinburgh. Near it is Thirlstane Castle, the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale. Till 1885 it united with Haddington, &c. to return one member to parliament. Pop. 719. See JAMES III.; and for the town's immemorial tenure of Lauder Common, Gomme's Village Communities (1890).