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protest (D.P.B. 194) ; 1580, April 20, witness, [I'li. -204); 1581, Sei.'.. U. «.tn'" "- '^' *':<br />

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1583, Jan, 1, gets sas<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong> an annual rent (ih. 219 'I,<br />

WedJerburu, younger, <strong>in</strong> a .Skiriiae's Wynd tenement, tm brotlier i<strong>in</strong>d -licir ( [lie Lite Kobcrt<br />

Weilderburu, sou and lieir <strong>of</strong> tlie late Dand <strong>Wedderburn</strong> <strong>in</strong> Welijiit. So ai,M<strong>in</strong>. i.'i .Vpril 1571,<br />

Alexander is uameJ ,as liis fatlier's lieir (U K.lt. 479 c). Tlie.-ie entries are es]. licit, but <strong>the</strong> ilatcs are<br />

quite <strong>in</strong>eNjjli<strong>ca</strong>ble, as Robert is cleiL\id Wcd.lcrbuni <strong>in</strong> WelKait, '\^<br />

entered heir <strong>in</strong> one third <strong>of</strong> his fa<strong>the</strong>r's Welgait land D.P.B. 170) autl 15 lice 1.'.72 wliJ'n Kotxrt<br />

<strong>Wedderburn</strong>, sou and heir <strong>of</strong> umquhile David <strong>Wedderburn</strong>, grants a iliscliar^re for an annual-rent<br />

out <strong>of</strong> Stirl<strong>in</strong>g's Wynd (DE.R. 20.o 6).<br />

I may here note that .Mr. A. C. Lamb <strong>in</strong> his Dundee: its Qnnitit r<strong>in</strong>d l/!itnrie Bui'dir.,,, (1S95),<br />

makes several altoge<strong>the</strong>r erroneous statements as to this branch <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> l.imily. After xUit<strong>in</strong>;;<br />

(p. xviia) that David Wedderburu <strong>in</strong> Welgait WiUi brotiier to <strong>the</strong> lir-t <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Wc.|derbunii, town<br />

clerks, and proprietor, throiigli his fa<strong>the</strong>r, James \\'edderburn, <strong>of</strong> thirteen acrei In-tween <strong>the</strong> Welgnit<br />

port and Dudhope, he states that he had a son Robert, wlio died <strong>in</strong> l.'ori, leav<strong>in</strong>g t»o young cliildr

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