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186 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
^-^TRACT (30 Nov. 1641) BY THE ClERK TO THE
Chap'v.
PrIVY CoH.VClL OF ScOTL.\.ND OP THB
App. ENROLMENT OF PATENT CREATING SiR JoHN ScRIMGEOUR OF DUDDOP ViSCOUNT
DuDDOP AND Lord Scrimgeour with remainder to his heirs male.
Apud Edinburgh ultimo die mensis Nouemliris anno Domini viillesimo sexcentesimo
qtrndragesimo primo.
The whilk day Joh(u) Earle of Loudoun Lord high Chancellor of this kingdonio
produced and e.xhibite {sic) before the lord(s o)f privie counsell a patent under his
Mateis great scale of the date at Halyrudhous the fjftene of November instant whereby
his Ma"° for the good and faithfull service done be his trustie and welbelonit 6''' Juhne
Scrimgeour elder of DitJdop Constable of Dundie and liis progenitors to his ila''" and
his predecessors of eternall memorie ffor the which they were honnoured with
the heretable title of The King's standard hearers) Being willing to bestow some
farther degree of honnour upon the said S" John Thair/oir^ his Ma'" hes made
Constitute and Creat him and his heirs male lawfullie gottin or to be gottin of his
bodie qlks failleing his heirs male whatsomeuer Viscounts of Duddop and Lords
Scrimgeour As the said patent of the date foresaid more fullie proports Quhilk
being read heard and cousidderit be the saids lords : and they acknowled"-in"- his
Mateis royal remembrance of the said S'' Juhue and his pi-edecessors thair faithfull
service They have ordained and ordains him and liis heirs male lawfullie gottin
or to be gottin of his bodie ; and failleing thairof his heirs male whatsomeuer, to
be called in all time comming Viscuimts of Duddop and Lords iScrimgeonr, and to
have place voice and precedence in all parliaments generall councclls publict and
privat meetings amonge the viscounts of this kingdom According to the date of
the patent foresaid Quhilk patent the said lord Chancellor delivered to S'' Patrick
M'=Kie of Larg in name of the said viscount of Duddop ; which the said S"' Patrick
being personallie piit receaved with all humilitie upon Iiis knees. Extractum de libris
actorum secreti consilii S D N Regis per eve Archibaldiun Primerose clericum ejusdem
Bub meis signo et subscriptione mauualibus
Arch Primerose Cler. S. Cons.
[This important document 13 in the possession of llr. Scrymgeour-Wedderbutn at Birkhill. It is
endorsed "10 t)ec 1778, Hegi.itered in tlie Books of Ses-sion as a probative writ," having l)een so registered
by Alexander t?crymgeour-\Vedderburn of Wedderburn, when he first tliought of proving the peerage claim.
It is now mounted on linen and the edges bound with green silk, in order to preserve it. In size it is llj
inches wide by 14^ inches long. It is in the handwriting of the time, except tlie words here given initalics,
which are written in a plainly and rather larger hand. In the first two lines the n in "John" and the
( and in " lords of " are covered with a good sized blot, appparently of the same age as the \vriting.]