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1m. the WEDDERBURN r,OOK.
introd married, (i.) to Anna Walker and (ii.) to Margaret Muddie, but had died in
1623, and William's death had occurred twenty years earlier (1003-4) when
there is a discharge to Kingennie by his other brothers and sisters in
respect ot his estate. His death was, it seenos, a violent one. for in the
Acta and Decreets is registered in 1613 a proceeding by his brothers
against James Kyle and George Traill, on a contract i)y the latter "to
abandon and never have ado with the late James Traill, alleged committer
of the slaughter of William Wedderbtirn," brother of the i)ursuer8, and tiiemselves
to depart out of the realm within forty days, under a peii.ilty (if l(l,(i()0 merks.
The two daughters of the old clerk, Margaret and Katharine both married
'^"er twice) and had is8ue.
Margaret and
The>e is a quaint entry in
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Katharine, the Lo7npt Milk of lier brother, David, in regard to the
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former, the
l?erk.^
record, namely, of a sort of bet between him and
her— a cloak against two " crownes of the sotie"— that the would
marry within the year. This was in June 1583, and I think David, who
•wagered she would so marry, must have won, as in October she is epr)ken of
as the future wife of Peter Clayhills, whose wife she, in fact, beL-ame. She died
in 1617. Her sister Katharine married (i) in lo'J-l, Willi:im Dimcan, surgeoa
in Dundee, who died in 1C08, and (ii) Vt'illiam Fergu!