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104 THK WEDDKRBUUX BOOK
Part II.
book) he has written in Latin and I']ui;lish a pniphety, so far verified, that "This book
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shall last heir iu I 'undee,'' until one or two impossibilities occur (j)ost, vol. ii, pp. -69, 27-1).
There are, of course, many references to his private afiairs, and to his and his wife's
family. Thus, ^1 May 15G0, he, "younger, clerk," has an action jv the curatory of his
wife's sister, Elizabeth Myln (D.B.ll. 9U) ; 22 Feb. 15(56, au annual rent and a South
Seagait land are settled on him and his wife (S.W. 19 ; D.P.B. 125) ; 4 Nov. 1567, he,
" burgess of Dundee," and his wife, grant a discharge to Henrv Guthrie of Collestoim
(U.P.B. 68) ; 8 May 1.5G8, he lends £100 to Gill.ert Wedderburn '(ante, p. 2:V\ and take.s
'an assignment of Gilbert's "airschip" as security (D.P.B. 70j ; and, 1 May 1570 {ih. 187),
he is tutor to Robert and David, sons of llobert Wedderbum, the Vicar (ante, pp. 18-19).
Similarly he is frequently named in connection with settlements on his own children, e.ff.,
on his son David, 2 June 1571 (D.P.B. 80) ; 30 March 1573, on his sou Piobert {ib. 82),
and also on his son Alexander, e.ij , 16 M.ay 1575, when he got from James Carmicliael an
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annual charge of GOO merks out of AVcstor Gourdie, which is settled on him, his wife, and
their son Alexander (S.W. 29), who afterwards acquired the whole of the lands of Gourdie,
which still remain in the possession of the family. An e.xcambion of property between his
two sons, Alexander and Kobert, was made 30 Dec. 1577 (S.AV. 35-37), and later on when
Ale.'vander married, there were several settlements on him and his wife, e.y., 2 1 Nov.,
15 Dec. 1582 (S.NV. 45 ; D.P.B. 21G, 2!8).i He lived on the north side of the Argylegait
iu Dundee, near S. Matthew's close, and owned what came to be called " the old clerk's
close" (D.P.B. 488). He died 28 June 1585, leaving a will confirmed at Edinburgh
13 May 15S7 (Ed.T. 5; D.W. 11 m), the confirmation of which gives the date of his
death. After his death he is occasionally named in connection with his sons, but these
mentions of him are of no value.- He was, no doubt, buried with his wife in the Howft"
of Dundee, their tomb apparently bearing an epitaph recorded in the Cornpt Bulk of
their second son David (D.W''. 1).-'
He married, no doidjt at Dundee, before May 1560, Janet Myln,^ daughter and
coheiress of James Myln, burgess of Dundee (by Elizabeth Guthrie, his wife),-^ and by
her, who died 19 June 158'2 (Ed T. ; D.W. 11 m),'^ leaving a will, confirmed at Edinburgli,
with that of her husband, had issue six sous and two daughters :
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See also 11. A. IX -13. where, 20 July 1602, there is a s»mnion.s by his sou, Kingenuie, re an annual-rent
out of the barony crt (S.W. 326).
' Elizabeth Guthrie was, no doubt, a Guthrie of Kiublethmont, as. 6 Sept. 15S6, Thomas Guthrie, .son of
the late Thomas Guthrie of Kinblethmnnt, makes a lUsjiositiou in favour of Alexander and David
Wedderbum, brothers, his cousins in tlie second and third degree, from which it would appear that
they were doubly related to him (O.P.B. 266). She mairied secondly George Wischart of Drymmie,
where she died 1 Jan. 1533. By her will, dated 27 Dec- 1582 and confirmed at Eduiburgh23 May 15b4
(Ed.T., vol. xiii , she appoints her husband executor and leaves to "Alexander Wedderbiirne's bairues,
mv oyes in Dundie, fourtic pounds money, with the rest of the few males awan