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30 THE WEDDEUBrilN BOOK.
^pij of the masters of the col!e-e of S. .\[an-, S. Amhr«-s" ((i S.ll. 'J4). V.v 15 Jan. lG-^3 ho
p;issed to his doctors de-roe, aN lie is tiieii called JJr. Weddorbirni in a passarre of
Calderwood, relating to the use oltho Kn-lisli Litm-;.'v in the college cliapol (U.P.C. 59 note)
and also in liis admission to the freedom „( Dundee, which was conferred on him A
April in this year (D.L li. 4.'i).
It is from S. Andrew's, IGUS-l'G, ihut most of his letters to .Meric Casaubon are
\n:itteD, but he seems to have come south a-ain in the last-named vear, as, 8 Feb. 16-^6
he was appointed rector of Compton in the diocese of Winchester (Rymers Fotd'era
VIII. II. 1G5), as well as Canon of Kly {lliM. Cith. Ely), being colh.tod to his stall before
Christmas in that year. At the same time ho retained his professorship in St. Andrew's
as he is so designed 25 Oct. 1G26 in a commission by the King to him and other
persons "pro exploratione papistarum" ((;..S.H. 99). On 12 Sept. 162S the Kino,
presented him to the vicarage of .Mildonhail, in the diocese of Norwich {Rmn. FreH
VIII. iii. 28 and lli^t. Cath. Kly.), while in 10:51 lie became i)rebcndary of W'hitcluircll
m the church of Wells (tbH, and IIV„/-,v Fasti O.ron). On 14 Oct. 1635 he had a
royal grant of the De.aiery of the Chajiel lloyal in Stirling, and of the lands
monastery, and barony of Drumdrennane iCJ.S.ll. lOS ; ll.l'.S. :Vj.), a gift which was soon
followed by his appointment, in succession to Bishop Beilendcn, as Bi.shop of Dunblane
11 Feb. 1G;36 (G.S.ll. 109). It is .said that he was ajipointed on the nomination of
Archbishop Laud, who had long favoured him " as a churchman of whoso devotion to the
King and attachment to himself he had ample e.xjierionce " (///.s«. Chap. /'oi,(d in t>co//aiirl)
Upon this he vacated his eiinonry of Kly, beini; succeeded bv Dr. Xehemiah Ho.n'rs"
1 April 1636 {Rym. Fford.
the author adds, "one of his name and lamily named James Wedderbuni liad .fiient scjine time in
O.^ford for the value of the imblio library. He was atterward.s a doctor of divinitv, preU'udarv ..1
Whitchurch in tlie Churcli of Wells upon the resignation of Dr. John Harrys of \\inchi''ster
in 1631, and being some years after niaile r.i.shop of Jiunblain in lii.s own counliv, Th'W. How.
batchelor of divhiity, was achnitted to hid preljendship 30 June 1638." See also Katli's Binh ips ;
Laud's Works iii. 273-74, vii. 591, and the htst. of the Chapel Roi/ol in Sroi/and, bv ilev. C. Un^'ei-s
(Edin. Grampian Club ISSli), p. 190. where, however, it is' inaccurately staled that ll.sliop
Wetlderburn's " brother John, M.D. of Univ. of S. Andrew .?. attained rei>ntntion a.s a physician and
recelvctl the honour of Knighthooih He became chief physician in .Moravia and resiiled .Vt tllmutz."
Here the writer confuses John of iloravia with Sir John of Gosfonl. There is also an account of
the Bishop in the Fasti Feci. Scot. ii. 840, where it is said that he |iublished " A Treatise for
Reconciliatiou." This account cites as its authorities Keith's Bishops ; Iteg. I'res and Old Dec. ; Kii-k
})apers ; Beutham's Ely ; Acts of Assembly ; and BaiUie.s' Letters.
* In a letter to the Times (17 Oct. 1896), on the occasion of the burial in the Cathedral of .Archbishop
Benson, the Mcrist of the Cathedral, Bishop Jennev, Elites that i.nly two bishops had been buried
there since Cardinal Pole in 15.">8, viz., James Wedderburn, in theCh.ipelof the Blessed Virgin I'calleii
the Dean's Chapeli, near tlie Martyrdom, and William Broughton, lirst bishop of Sydney, burieii
in the south nave aisle, 26 Feb. 18a3.