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128 THE WEDDF.UnURX BOOK.
From 1600 on the cleik is coiistauilj designed as
?t''*";,i "of Kiiigounie," wliorc lie no
Chap.
doubt
. resided for a considerable part o! ilio year. Some sculptured ^tones, bearing; tlic arms and
initials of liinis'elf and liis wife, togelbcr with some bearing those of his grandson and his
wife, arc still to be scon at Kingenuie, set in the farm buildings, which occnp}' the site of
the old mansion, and also over an entrance to the present factor's house.'
His clerksiiip, however, no doubt compelled his frequent presence in Dundee, where
he probably resided throughout the winter months. Ho and his wife owned various
properties there, and there are many references both to these and to other interests of
theirs. Their principal house was in Xethergait, and though now demolished and rebuilt
there is, here again, a scul[)tured stone bearing the initials and impaled arms of Kin^ennie
and his wife set in the wall of the mcxlern building.' A portion of a decorated ceilini' also
found in his house, was exhibited (No 9G7) in the "Old Dundee" E.xliibition of 189-J.93'
and is given opposite, together with a cut of an old door, also in the Exhibition (Xo. &S2)
and formerly in the house of Kingennie's great grandson, James (post. Part III., chap. v.).
I deal briefly with liis minor properties, atniual rents, etc. Thus, I 2-19 Nov. 15S6
he and his wife get a charter and sasine of an annual rent (S.W. 53-5."), 100; D.PB.
259-fiO) ; L'5 May 13^8, they get a North Argylegait yard (S.W. 59); 6 Sept. 1588, the
clerk's cousin. Thomas Guthrie, resigns an aniuuil rent to him (D.P.B. 2i)G) ; 17 May
1589, his cousin, John Wedderburn of Craigie, charges his lands of Craigie in his favour
(ib. 315) ; and there is another such charge to the clerk, and his wife, 14 June 1591 (S W.
75), -while they seem to have acquired a sixth part of the lands a few weeks later, 1 1 Au".
(D.P.B. 317 c), and themselves charged it, 18 Nov. in that year (S.AV. 80). They
owned a malthouse in North Argylegait, which is often named (D.P.B. 317 a),-
aud aland called the Greuelaud, which they settled on their son James {/b. 317 i), and
later, 9 Nov. 159i, on William Davidson (D.B.ll. 299).= In 159.i, April 30, they got a
charter of a croft called the Seres Hauch (l).C. 36); 9 June, the clerk got a yearly
pension of uheat from Peter Hay (S.W. 108) ; 7 Oct., an annual rent from John Auehinle'k
(D.P.B. 322) ; and 29 May 159G, a few fermc from his brother, James Wedderburn, the
• merchant (S.W. 112). There is a contract by the clerk and his wife, 16 March 1597 to
infeft William Davidson and Janet Wedderb\un (ante, p. 98; in a lodging cast of tlie
Greneland (R. D. 7); 18 July in the same year the clerk gets a gift of the escheat
of James Scrymgeour, burgess, at the horn, for debt (R.P.S. 20) ; 17 Feb. 1600, David
Caniegy of Kinnaird grants to the clerk a charge on his lands at Panbryde " for thankfnll
service done and to be dune" (S.AV 118), while, 10-13 Dec. 1 GOO, Kingennie added to
his town property by the purchase from his neighbour, John Traill, for 1,200 merks, of a
North Argylegait land (S W. 139--H). In 1602, Jnly20, we find him proceeding v David,
Earl of Crawford, for the last sixteen years' arrears of an annual out of the barony of
Downy, co. Forfar, in which his parents had been infeft in 1579, and for which he obtained
a decree by the end of the year (ll.A.D. 43). Perhaps it was in settlement of this th.-it
soon after, 10 July 1603, the Earl, "for services, etc.," granted him the right to pasture
his cattle on the barony, and to cut peats from the muir (S.W. 155-56), a grant in
regard to which there was litigation between their successors in subsequent years (S.W.
257-58 a). In 1612, April 15, lie bought several annual rents from his nephew, Alexander
Clayhills (S.W. 175, and see li.D. 32), while in 1616, March-May, he acquired from
Patrick Wedderbuni and his son Alexander (ante, p. 78) a North Marketgait foreland
to which frequent reference is made (S.W. 188-89; D.P-B. 407; D.B.K. 395). In 161.5,
July 25, he and his wife got a charter from John tScrj-nigeonr of Dudhope of the sunny
half of Balruddrie, which they at once settled, subject to their own liferents on their
youngest daughters Jean and Elizabeth (D.P.B. 404). Other dealings of his arc recorded
21 Dec. 1616, when he renounces to William Tyrie of DrumkilbooOO merks for the redemption
of Loggine-gill, co. Perth (K. D. 59) ; 2 May 1G17, when he was cognosced heir to his
"guidschyr" James ilyln in his lands in Dundee (D.B.R. 399)^; 12 July 1621, when
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See post, Part v. s, the chapter on the family arms, where there is an illustration of the.se stouts.
' It seems at one time to have belonged to his grandson. Sir Alexander of ISlackne.-^s (D.I'.]!. 46S). See
also D.P.B. 472, 4S7. where it is named. 11 Aug. 1645, 9 June ibfji, a.s let by Kingennie to
Alexander Nicoll, and then acquired by William Petrie. His Korth Argylegait lands are also
named (D.P.B. 3P5; K.A.D.ieS).
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The Greneland is named as a boundary in 1642 (D.P.B. 468^.
* He is also named, 10 Nov. ISSti, as sister's sou and heir to the late James Myln, younger, from whom he
inherits the old annual rent of ei;;lit merks, out of the Murraygait laud of the late David Wedderburn
(D.P.B. 2t;0). See also ante, p. 56 and post, p. 147, n.