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WILLIAM, OF PITTENWEEM AND DUNDEE. 47
searched with another object from 1620, tlieir earliest date, down to 17.50, I find Part I.
Bome references to a Uoori;e, Fergus, and Ann WeUderbnrn (171,S-L'J), who may Chap. ii.
have been descendants of this .John Wedderhnrn.^
2. William Wedderburn^ [1573— It. 1
6], second son of Alexander of
Pittormie.-' Ho matricidatcd at S. Andrew's in 1.588, and graduated there in 1.j92
(S.A.K. 1 1 j, after wliich he seems to liave remained there as a prot.-sor. Thus he is
named among tlie mastera of S ,Salvator'.s College, S. Andrew's, lU Feb. lOOs
i II .V.D.
49), and in Ang.—Nov. 1G09 he was "regent of philosophiu in the anid college of
S. Andrew's, but was then preparing to vacate the chair and be plantit minister at
the Kirk of Pittenweoni," co. P'ife (Il.P.C. 37-38). Tiiere must have been some
doubt as to wliether iiis cliair of philosophy became vacant by his call to I'ittenweem
((6.), or whether the two could ijoth be held by the same pei-son, as, 8 Feb. KUO, he hail
to appear personally before the Lords of Council and Session and prove hi.s appointment
to the Kirk of Pittenweem (R.A.D. 53). Once estatilished there he seems to have
claimed the "great house and chapter chalmer of the Abbey I'l.ice '' as his manse,
and brought a writ to eject therefrom Frederick, Lord .Stewart of I'ittenweem, and his
motlier, Elizabeth Hepburn, Lady Pitfirrane, but with what result docs ni)t appear.
The suit was pending hi July 1611 {ib. 51). He was ordained L'.") A|iiil ICOU, ami
•wa.s minister at Pittenweem 1610-11, when he was translated to the third char^'-o iu
Dundee, being represented to the King as " of peaceable inclinations," as he hail, liTstlv
become boiuid to " obey all the acts of the General Assemlily of li'AD ; next that ho
sail not meddle in doctrine or conference with the controverted heads of discipline,
and thirdly that he sail conform himself unto quhatsumevcr order of church
government the King in Kirk sail set down" (F'.tsti £cd. Scof).* He was at oiico
admitted a burgess of the burgh, by tlie privilege of (his father) Alexander
Wedderbuni, " once a bailie " (olim ballivi) 9 July Itiil (D.L. 15. 3'Jb and sixui after.
2 Feb. 1G13, obtained, in view of his "being now burdened with the charge of his
wife, bairn and family," an increase of his stipend to 80U merks, so as to mjd>e it eipial
to that of the other ministers ol the burgh (D.C.U. 3G). He is occasionally named in the
Dundee Records and elsewhere, lGll-15, e.ii \\ il!u>ni .lif^l
iu 1604, while the minister at Belhelnay, whom he tacks on to this WDo.ini. with no . tjirr
evidence than the similarity of his n.ime and the convenient )-o-j-ibilily of lUH'". vm > fu \t
William Wedderburn of Aberdeen (and Margaret Annand'i and bnithcr of l>;i\ id \\>.l.lrrburii, the
grammarian. Lastly, J-W. makes William's wife Magdalen, only lianchtrr to l;..l!i.«l kiT.ir» ;1:ami.
Club. Edin-. 1851). From the last named authority, we may cite \ol.i. ].. 21-1, " It-lu. A] ni 1".— 'i'l.e
members of the Court of Higli Conimisfion in the province of S. Andrew 'a write I" tl."- Kiiii: xb-.
replies that ' Tliair is ane sup|ilication given to us be the Burgh ol liundif (.r ..(-i- Miia..- oii« Wr.
William Wedderburn to be thair par-tour to the quhdk we have conde-cendit l.-r ti.c ..-.•i. !..• •(•svkJ
gude graces, ic-'" He is named in the.«ame volume 22 Aug- 1610 ami 2 M.ir.li I'.l I. whrii il.» Anhbishop
of S. Andrew's and Bishop of Brechin WTite commending liim to the King ,i'. ll"- iv..-i6. 'JCJ..