Returned to Whitslaid Tower and the weeds have gone a bit now so you can explore a bit more freely. It is such a nice wee ruin which has a fairly unremarkable history, however as noted on our previous visit, it has a nice little hobbit-home look about it.
In 1565 a Warrant under the Signet charged the sheriff of Berwick and his deputes to apprehend Gilbert Lauder of "Quhitslaid" (d. before 1590), Richard Lauder younger of that Ilk (killed June 1567), and William Lauder, brother of said Gilbert, who had been put to the horn for the slaughter of the George Wedderat deceased, burgess of Lauder, but had fortified and were holding the house of Quhitslaid (Whitslaid).
In 1662 a Commission was assembled and authorised to try two witches at Lauder. One of those on it was Gilbert Lauder of Whitslaid. This Gilbert Lauder of Whitslaid appears to have had financial problems and was subsequently forced to part with Whitslaid to an advocate named Mr. John Peter.
You can see our previous visit here
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