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"THE GUDE AND GODLIE BALLATES." H
to remove luiu. W lien he was at Dccpe, the factoi-s at Deepo, Johne Meldruni, ffenrie Part I.
Tod, Johne Mowat, Gilbert Soot, delated him to the Bishop of Rowan ; but the ^^'^^^ '•
Bishop
refused to meddle with him, because they could prove nothing against him.' Thev informed
the Bishop and Channons of Kowan that he was declared an heretick in Scotland ; the
Bishop desired them to send for the processe, and that being trvcd, he sould have no
residence there. We heare no farther, but that he remained asfactor at Deepo. and dein",
said to his sonne, ' We have beene acting our part iu the theater : you are to succeed
'
see
that you act your part faithfuliie.'
•'Mr. .lohu Wedderburn, his brother, bro;:ght up also in the course of i.hilosopliie
under Mr. Gawin Logic, being porswaded by his friends, albeit against his will, he twke on
the order of prcestliood, and Wiis a prcest in Dundie. But soon after he boganne to i)n)fcsso
the (reformed) rcligioun. Being summoned he departed to Alniaine ((lermanv), whore ho
heard Luther and .Melancton, and became vcrie fervent and zealous. He translated manic
of Luther's dytements into Scotish meeter, and the P.sahnes of Uavid. He turned manic
bawdie songs and rymes in godlie rymes. He returned, after the death of the king,
iu December 1542, but was agaiiie persuod by the Cardinall, and tied to Euglaiul.
"Mr. Robert Wedderburuc, the youngest brother, brought up also under .Mr. (;awin
Logie, e.Yoelled liis brother both in humanitie and knowTed^o of the Scriptures. He
succeeded to Mr. R ibert Barrie, vicar of Dundie. He went to I'arisc, where he remained
cheeflie in compauie of those that were instructed in religioun. ... After the death of the
Cardinall he returned to Scotland. The Vicar, liis mother's brother, being departed, ho "ott
possessioun of the vicarage, but remained for tlie most part with the Lainl of CaKler
When '
he was comming home out of the east countries, in a Danskein sliip, the shiiipc was
driven by contrarie winds upon Norway, where tlie pas.seugers landed at Ripperwicke, ni'id
remained certane daycs. In the meane time, upon the Saturday before Whitsondav even
1546, after continuall disputing and reasoning among the passengers—some l'n|ii"sh, and
some Protestants — he, and the rest of his fellows, tooke the boldnesse, notwithstai'idin"
they understood nothing of the Cardinall's death, to make his pourtraiture or statue of a
great oaken blocke, and thereupon write his name in paper affixed thereon. Tiiey accuse
him, condemn him, and bnrne his statue iu a great fire of timber. The Cardmail was
slaine that same verie day, in the morning, in his owne Castell of Sanet Ar.drewes."
It is to be regretted that Calderwood's authoritie.', known to liave been .\I.SS. since
lost or destroyed, are no longer at our service, not that there is reason to doubt his
Statements, but because of the further matter those authorities might have proviileil. As
it is, there is little we can now add to his account in regard to the career of the three
brothers, and the modern writers already mentioned are not always fortunate in tiieir
attempted particulars. They en'oneously assimie that the brothers had no contemponirv
namesakes, and thus identify every James, John, or Robert Wedderburn mentioned in the
records of the time with the corresponding member of tiiis triumvirate.- J;ut, though
these eudea veal's do not help us, the rest of their work is full of value. Mr. Ijiing's
* Sir James Samlilands, the friend of Knox. He was appoiuted by the refurmei.i to eolicit llif tiup[«>rt uf
the Queen Ue'.:ent.
* Thus Mr. Laiuy, while con.^eioU3 thnt "more than one family of the Weildcrlmrn.') fliiuri^liol in Duudc'C
or its neighi'ourhoud at an earlier period" than i;>4tj, and admittii-i; lh:tt l>tiiii;!.L-(* .ttL-«njiiL ..f ihu
family is "not, qidttj correct," assumes that the entry in the Ki'gi.-.ter uf tlie I'livy .Sc.il U r.,s. 4/
recording a respite to Kohert, son of James Wedderburn, for the slauj^hter uf one .MalL^iui in K-.'Ii-Ji
must refer to James, the elder uf these three brothei-s, on whom, tlierefure, he I.itlirrs " ut lr-j».i
two sons John and lluV.ert." the fact being ihat he hail uo son Hubei t, and tii.it the aixivc entry rrfir*
to liobeit, sun of another James Wedilerburu (m. Janet Logan). So again .Wr. l^iiuif ,i