Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton (c. 153826 February 1608) was a Scottish jurist and poet. Biography His father was Robert Craig, an Edinburgh merchant, who was born in 1515 and died in 1575. He married Katherine Bellenden who was born in 1520, she died in 1575. His uncle was the Scottish reformer and John Knox's colleague John Craig. In Edinburgh he lived on the lower half of Warriston Close off the north side of the Royal Mile. His rural residence, as his title infers, was Riccarton House, a few miles west of Edinburgh. Craig was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of St Andrews, where he took the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1555. From St. Andrews he went to France, to study canon law and civil law. In Paris from 1555 to 1561, he studied civil law under François Baudouin. His work on feudal law shows the influence of François Hotman, which must be later. Craig returned to the Kingdom of Scotland about 1561, and was admitted advocate in February 1563. In 1564, he was appointed justice-depute by the justice-general, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll; and in this capacity he presided at many of the criminal trials of the period in Edinburgh, and in 1606 was made procurator for the church. He never became a lord of session, a circumstance that was unquestionably due to his own choice. He is said to have refused the honour of knighthood which James VI conferred on him in 1604. He had come to London as one of the Scottish commissioners regarding the personal union between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, the only political object he seems to have cared about. But in accordance with James's command was styled and reputed a knight. He died in Edinburgh on 26 February 1608. Works Except his poems, the only one of Craig's works which appeared during his lifetime was his Jus feudale (1603). Editions of the book were produced by Robert Burnet (Edinburgh, 1655), Lüder Mencke (Leipzig, 1716) and James Baillie (Edinburgh, 1732). A two volume English translation by Scottish judge Lord Clyde was published in 1934. In 2017, the Stair Society published the first volume of a new three part Latin edition of Jus Feudale with facing English translation by classicist and lawyer Leslie Dodd. This book was the first comprehensive legal treatise be