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THE I'UllCHASE OF KINGENNIE. 127
(S.W. 93-95).! Having acquired the property, the cleric proceeded to free it, by redocmiiig Part ir.
the charges to which it was sulijeuL. Thus, 6 Mav 159-J, he bniij:ht up a chnrgo lield bv Chap. in.
Andrew Ooiirlay (S.W. .84; D.l'.B. 320) ; 9 Mav," anotlior iield bv l'atrit,k .Mortimer in
Dryburgh (S.W. 87, 88) ; 2.^, 31 Dec. l.'-)92, two otliers liol.l bv Walter and I'atrick Hay
{ib. 97), and in tlie next year yet another lield by Andrew Henri^oun (S.W. 105). Tiie
purchase seems to have brought him at once into" litigation, us. 3u Dec. ir)91, tliere is a
suit at the instance of James Weymis, tacksman of tiie Karl Uowric r. Mr. Alexander
Wedderburn and others, who held of the Karl, as their superior (U A D. 32; and sec
S.W. 90). By reason- of tiiis property the clerk is sometimes designed " of Wester
Gourdie," e.g., when a witness (S.W. 107), until his acquisition in ICOO ut the lauds of
Kingennie, from which his designation is thereafter alwavs taken.
The lands of Kingennie-' were purchased by him some nine years after his acqnisition
of Wester Gourdie. They were the property of William Guthrfe and liis wife, Klizabeth
Fethie, by whom, 21 April 1600, one John Traill, bailie in Dundee, was iiifeft in the
Mayuis (mains) of Kingennie (S.W. 121), which he then charged with an annual rent of
eight bolls victual in favour of the clerk {ih. 122), who soon after aL'reed to buy the lands
from the Guthries for 10,800 merks. The contract is dated 6 Sept. 1000 (S.W. 123), and
there is an obligation, 17 Sept., by Guthrie not to sell any of his lauds or deal with the
price of Kingennie without the consent of various persons, includiuL,' the clerk (S.W. 124).
As in the case of Wester Gourdie, so in that of Kingennie, Wedderburn seems to have
at once set about freeing the property from the charges upon it. Thus he redeems one
annual rent, 20 Oct. 1600 {ib. 125) ; and pays ofi' some arrears of annther, 1 Nov. {i/> 126,
133). There is another contract between the Guthries and the clerk and his wife. Helen
Ramsay, for the sale of Kingennie, in which the price is put at 16,000 merks iu all, of which
4,800 is said to have gone in clearing oft' charges (ili. I'll). On the same day (I .Vov.) the
property is renounced by the vendors as sold " without redemjition " i il>. l'_8) ; KlizabL-th
Fethie, wife of the vendor, makes a judicial ratification of the contract (i/>. 12'.t) ; and the
lands are resigned "by delivery of stuff' and baton " into the hands of William, Ivirl of
Angus, the superior (;7;. 130), charters of them being ;:;ranted to Wedderburn and hi.s
wife and their heirs by both Guthrie and the Karl {ib. l-il-.')2),'' who sul)se•>
» There is a receipt, 27 Jau. 1602, bv Traill to Kingennie for 1155. 9. 4., th^ pnoo ..I , . .P.~-p •^ « i.-n.
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An action by Mr. Alexander Wedderburn of Kingennie and othe.-a r. W ua^a Outline, .m.tiui. «l
Kingennie, is named 25 Feb. 1609 (R.A.D. 50;.