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^^ Pro^'ost m 1GG3-CG, boin- re-elected to th,-it office, iT-iO Sept. 1064, after which he
was sworn in, 26, 28 Sept. 1665 (I) C.B 100, ]0S, 11 l).i At the close of auotlier decadc,-
28 Dec. 1676, lie was again elected provost (DC.!!. 121) and continued to be so elected
in the four next years, 1677-80 ('/-. 124, 126, 12t):50\ In 1678, June 26, he was also
again in parliament for the Ihu^'Ii, and a nicnib-rof a committee of supply (A. P.S. 52), 'and
in the next year, 28 June 1 679, was airain nominated by the council to be their commissioner
at the next general convention of tiio burghs at Edinburgh (D.C.I!. 123). In 1680, hec. 9,
he and the council of the burgh were suetl by the Earl of rainnure for letting a debtor
to the Earl escape out of the Tolbooth, but were as.soilzied by the Court (S.W. 450).-'
He added considerably to his estates,' chiefly by the acquisition of the baronv of
Easter I'owrie in 1662. This property had origiu.ally (1500) belonged to tlio Ogilvie'a of
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that ilk,'' and later to the Durhams, by one of whom it was in 1659 disponed, with the
barony of Ogilvie in warramlice, to Dougall Mcl'her.sone of Bellachroan (.S.W. 328\ by
whom, three years late, 12 Sept. 1662, it was alienated to Alexander W'edderburn for an
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