While the lairds acknowledged no master, foreign or domestic, they also refused to recognize legal constraints, and exercised an oppressive tyranny over their inferiors.
My constituency contains a small library, the first lending library not set up by a local authority but by the local laird.
I do not care if money goes to lairds, provided that it is used effectively.
But the laird built the first pier, made the first road and established the first school.
But then in this respect, as in so many others, he is just a gillie among the lairds.
I have never had so many lairds and lords at my meetings.
I am certainly not a lairds' lackey or anyone else's lackey.
There was a great lack of planting in the areas once the money had been taken out by the lairds and woodland owners.
