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50 THE WEDDERBUIIN BOOK.
Parti. 2. Andrew Wedderburn, of Lift". See below. - ,..
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3. James Wedderburn, of Moonzie. See post, p. 51,
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1. Elizabeth Wedderburn, died num. Xov. 1675. X.iracd only in the registei- of her
burial, "23 Nov. IGT.'J, Kliziibetli Wedderburn. lawful diuighter to the deceast .Mr.
James Wedderburn, elder, late minister at .Munsie, was buried" {Rer/. Cupar Burials).
2. Beatrix Wedderburn. She is, no doubt, a daughter of James Wedderburn,
though she is nowhere so called. She married, IS July 1G72, Patrick CroniOie or
Crambie, merchant in Cupar (Ref/. CujKir), and IkkI issue a sou. John Crombie,
baptized at Cupar on 2r> April 1G73 (Hn. She was living a widow in Cupar in 1688
(S.W. 485-b6) and died in lfi'J9, when her will was confirmed (1 Aug ) at .S. Andrew's,
being given up by the curator of her only son, ratrick Crombie i,S.A.R. 11).
I proceed to deal with the sons of James Wedderburn, elder of Moonzie, tlie order of whose
priority is fixed by the dates of their matriculation at the University. Of the two younger,
2. Andrew Wedderburn- [1GJ5— 1G94], second son of James Wedderburn. elder,
of Moonzie, was probably born about 162.i, as he matriculated at S. Andrew's in 1(14:2
and graduated there in 1G45 (S.A.R. 26). lie was admitted :;9.Iuly 1G50, and was minister
at Liff from then until 16G1, when he was deprived by the Acts of Parliament of 11 June
and 1 Oct., and retired to Anstruther Wester (Fast. Kcd Scot ii, 53.~i ; ill. 710).^ At first
he seems to have lived in the neighbouring parisli of Craill, as lie and his wife, Elizabeth
Daw, obtained, at this very period, from Sir Patrick Myretoun of Cambo, a charter of the
lands of Grasmistoun in that parish, confirmed to them under the Great Seal 20 Dec. 1664
(G.S.R. 119). Later on they perhaps moved across the county of Fife to the parish of
Creich, where Sir Thomas Nairn of Sandfurd liad giveu them, 3 Aug. 16GS, a grant of the
lands of Easter Kingsleif, also confirmed under the Great Seal 10 Feb. IGSi (ih. 128). In
1673 the}- were certainly in Anstruther \V'estcr, where Andrew got into ditfictilties for
"keeping a conventicle in his own house." For this he was ordered to appear before the Lords
of the Privy Council, 3 Sepf. 1673. and confessing that ou the day in question, "being
Sonday, he did preach and pray in his own house where diverse other persons were present
besides those of his own family," he was convicted of an ottenoe against the fifth Act of
the second session of the current parliament, and committed to the Tnlbooth of Edinburgh,
in default of finding security in 5,000 merks not to offend again. The choice of leaving
the country was given him, but he did not avail himself of that alternative, and failing to
find security was imprisoned in the Tolbooth till Sept. 30, when the Lords, on a petition by
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him setting forth that ou the fatal Sunday he had been "at sermon both forenoon and
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afternoon " and did not mean to offend, and '' as his carriage had hitherto been peaceable
and he resolves so to continue," set him at libertj' on condition of his at once rejiairing to
the parish of Kilmarnock and there remaining (R.P.C. 64, 65). The matter is mentioned
in the diary of .lames Brodie of Brodie, who writes, 18 Sept. 1673, "I heard from my
brother the troubles they were in at Edinburgh ;
that ilr. Audro Wedderburn was
imprisoned for having more than five at his famili exercis " {ih. note). How long he had
to stay at Kilmarnock does not appear. There is reference to a bond by him, dated
15 Aug. 1687, in which he is designed " minister of the Gospel " merely, and no place of
residence mentioned (R.D. 248). At some time between 1673 and 1690 he had the second
charge at Dysart iFa