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THE WEDUK1U3UUX BOOK.
Part I
Chap.
but he must have died soon after, as 28 Nov. 1.5.'.9, Jolni Woddeilmni, bailie, no doubt
the son of his elder brother .lames, apprentices to one Thomas llunisay, a goldsmith, John,
son of the late Gilbert Wedderbiini, iudweller in Leitl). (D.I'.B. 98.)'
He married Isobell Dykesoun, and witli Jier cot a charter of a lionse in Leith
14 April 1.0.53 (ll.A.D. 59). By her, who survived him, and mariied secondly, before
19 July 1.5G3, John Brown (D.P.B. 12.3), he had issue three sons :
1. Henry Wedderburn [1540?— 1.580 ?]. He is four times mentioned in the
Dundee Records, viz. :
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(ii.) --'8
May 15G6, when Henry Wedderburn, son and heir to the
late Gilbert Wedderburn, iudweller in Leith inherits the Vicar of Dundee's Croft, and
5 JuneassignsittoDavidCockbunuD.P. B. 12G); (/-.) ISJan. ]r)C9. witness (D P B.73);
(c.) 7 I'ec. 1569, wlien he is named with his brother Thomas as one of the nearest of
kin on the father's side to James, son of John Wedderburn and Amies Hot)prini»le
(D.B.R. 182; ;
and (d.) 1.5-17 March 1.570, as son and heir of the lateGiibert, lurgess
in Leith, when ho gives up his right as cousin and nearest agnate to the tutorie of
John, son of tlie late .lolm Wedderburn. (D B.K. 185.)
He is, I think, to be identified with a Captain Wedderburn who is occasionally
named in the chronicles of the time, and, if so, his profession might account for his
relinquishment of the above-named tutorie. He was jjresent at tlie capture of
Dumbarton Castle on 2 April 1571, and Holinshed records that there "entered first
one Alexander Kamsie, ensigne bearer to Captain Crawfurd (of .lordanhill) and leiniu"
over the wall was streight waies assailed by thrie of the watchmen, of the which lie
slew one, and a souldier named Wederborne that followed him, being the second that
entered, slew another of them." {Huliiis/i'd'a Chion., v. G-19, 4to., Lond. 1808.) His
name occurs again in an " Inventare of the munitione within the Castell of Dumbartone,
itc ," at the time of the capture, among the items in which aie "XVJII.
calleveris (muskets) ... anegeivin to Harie Wtdderburn. ane uther to lieorge 1 luudas."
{See Baiindtt/iie'a Jiiunial, p.
I lO, and 7'/if Zf»no.r by Sir Wm. Fraser, i. KiC.) The
Captain Wedderburn mentioned by Spotswood and others as present at the battle of
Crabstone, near Aberdeen, in Nov. 1571, is, no doubt, this llarie or Henrv Wedderburn,'
and his identification with the son of Gilbert AVedderburn, though somewhat
speculative, is favoured by the fact that he was coimected by marriage with Captain
Crawfurd of Jordanhill. (See below s. his bi'othcr Thomas.) The date of his death is
not known, but that he died either without issue or without any who carried on his
male line is clear from a later (1G12) mention of his niece /^gnes as the heir of her
grandfather Gilbert. (K.A.i>. 59.)^
^ "About the S or 9 day of November l.i71 Captaiie Chisnie, sent by the ITegent Marr, went witli his
band of ane hundreth men out of Leyth to pass to the Noith, ami eftir come to Dundie, wliair
Captain \^edilerburne tuke up ane uther Ijand 'of 100 fi-'utmeii, >;v.(jirn. J) wlinn al togetlier witli
certane horsemen, under Alexander Canipbelhs charge, past forwarl to tlie Xoith and met with the
Jlaister of Korbes in arms for King James opposed to ' tlie Gordons an.iyed for (Jueen .Mary under
the gallant Sir Adam Gordon, brotlier to Huntley. In the I attl" of t'lalstoiie. neir Aberdeen,
20 Nov., tlie King's party were defeateil with tlie loss of Captain Chisnie and hftten gentlemen, and
nearly two hundred wounded." See *ir TAomut Uiqniiail'a Works, Stmt's Lih.. p. ,'11 ; lianntitiine't
Journal, 1806, pp. 3034 : ^ir R. Gnrdnnt Sntlierlaud. 1813, p. 166 ;
Kcr I'urttra IraicU ; llMmhed
V. 663 ; PilnriKtie, ii, 574 and Spotswtnd's Chvrch history i, 2.19.
' J. W. in both his printed memoir and his MS gets into much confusion over this individual. In hi,%
printed memoir ;pp. 7-!