Riccarton.1 SIR THOMAS CFLAIG. 321
Riccarton, with those of Warriston, in the barony
of Currie, were given by royal charter to Marion
of Wardlaw, and Andrew her son, and have had
many proprietors since then.
In the Privy Council Register we find that in
1579 the Lairds of Brighouse and Haltoun became
referred in the account of his town residence in
Wamston?s Close. He was born at Edinburgh
about 1538, and in 1552 was entered as a student
at St. Leonard?s College in the University of St.
Andrews, which he quitted three years subsequently,
after receiving his degree of Bachelor of Arts
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bound in caution, that the former shall pay ?to
Harie Drummond of Riccartoun, LIOO on Martinmas
next, the 11th November, in the Tolbooth of
Edinburgh, for behoof of William Sandeland and
Thomas Hart,? whom he had hurt and mutilated,
?I or else shall re-enter himself as a prisoner in the
said Tolbooth, on the said day.?
During the middle of the sixteenth century
Riccarton became the property of the famous
feudal lawyer, Sir Thomas Craig, to whom we have
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He next studied at the University of Pans, and
became deeply versed in Civil and Canon laws.
Returning to Scotland about 1561, he was called
to the bar three years afterwards, and in 1564 was
made Justice-Depute.
In 1566, when Prince James was born in Edinburgh
Castle, he wrote a Latin hexameter poem
in honour of the event, entitled GenethZiacon Jacobi
Prinn$is Soforum, which, with another poem on his
departure, when king, for England, is inserted in
