The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote House, and perhaps it is not true, for in Jeffrey's days territorial titles for paper lords Were at a discount, so that Lord Cockburn thought they would never revive, but the same thing is said of a much earlier judge. Fountainhall's Decisions is one Of those books that every Scots advocate knows in name, and surely no Scots practising advocate knows in fact. Its author, sirjohn Lauder, was a highly successful lawyer Of the Restoration, and when his time came to go up there was one fly in the Ointment Of success. His compact little estate in East Lothian was called Woodhead. Lauder feared not unduly the easy sarcasms Of fools, or the evil tongues Of an evil time. Territorial title he must have, and he rather neatly solved the difficulty by changing Woodhead to Fountainhall, a euphoni Ous name, which the place still retains.
When James VI. And I. Came to his great estate in England, he was much impressed by the Splendid robes of the English judges. His mighty Lord Chan cellor would have told him that such things were but toys, though even he would have admitted, they in fluenced the vulgar. At any rate Solomon presently sent word to his Old kingdom, that his judges and advocates there were to attire themselves in decent fashion. If you stroll into the Parliament House to-day and viewthe twin groups Of the Inner House, you will say they went one better than their English brothers.
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