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protest (D.P.B. 194) ; 1580, April 20, witness, [I'li. -204); 1581, Sei.'.. U. «.tn'" "- '^' *':
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1583, Jan, 1, gets sasine of an annual rent (ih. 219 'I,
WedJerburu, younger, in a .Skiriiae's Wynd tenement, tm brotlier iind -licir ( [lie Lite Kobcrt
Weilderburu, sou and lieir of tlie late Dand Wedderburn in Welijiit. So ai,Min. i.'i .Vpril 1571,
Alexander is uameJ ,as liis fatlier's lieir (U K.lt. 479 c). Tlie.-ie entries are es]. licit, but the ilatcs are
quite ineNjjlicable, as Robert is cleiL\id Wcd.lcrbuni in WelKait, '\^
entered heir in one third of his father's Welgait land D.P.B. 170) autl 15 lice 1.'.72 wliJ'n Kotxrt
Wedderburn, sou and heir of umquhile David Wedderburn, grants a iliscliar^re for an annual-rent
out of Stirling's Wynd (DE.R. 20.o 6).
I may here note that .Mr. A. C. Lamb in his Dundee: its Qnnitit rind l/!itnrie Bui'dir.,,, (1S95),
makes several altogether erroneous statements as to this branch of the l.imily. After xUitin;;
(p. xviia) that David Wedderburu in Welgait WiUi brotiier to the lir-t of the Wc.|derbunii, town
clerks, and proprietor, throiigli his father, James \\'edderburn, of thirteen acrei In-tween the Welgnit
port and Dudhope, he states that he had a son Robert, wlio died in l.'ori, leaving t»o young cliildr