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- MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 87
of half of the lauds of Ballyndouh {l!>. 127). This entry fixes apiiroxim itcly the date Part I.
of Margaret's nuirriage. John was between li and 21 years old in 1">G >, so thit his ^'^aP-Vmotlier
cannot iiave ;narried much after IS.iO, and was not born nxneli after IJiO.
In another entry, however, 7 Nov. l.')7'5, John LovcU is called her second son (tV,. 167).
There is a ciuirter of 157.5 naming her, her husband and tiieir son Robert (Laing'a
Scottish SeaU II., 42), and, 2 Feb. 1576, tiiis sou and his pirents are also named
(D.li.K. 2-2")). She was living 13 June 1.578, when she is named with her son -lohu
(here again called eldest son), who acts as procurator for his father and his brother
Kobert (D.B R. 210), and again 27 Aug. in that year she is montiou.'d lo^etlier with
adaughtor Katrene Lovell, wife of John Cathro (D.P.B. 201 ). She died in Dec. 1578.
This appears fi-oui an entry of .3 Sept. 1580, when her hiisbau. 212./); 20 Sopt. 168),
"mariner," wituess {th. 213/); 8 July 158.^ "inhabitant of Dundee," witness
(''). 247); 13 .lune 1588, burgess, witness {ih. 251) : 5 Ault. 1590, witness (.'.. 2S2)
13 Oct. 1590, "mariner, elected deacon of the coilmeu or e-ialmeu " (D.C.B. 15);
7 Oct. 1595, again so elected (ib. 19); 7 April 1596, (kcree iu iiis f.ivour
(D.B.R. 306 h) ; and 27 July 1600, another such decree (i6. 336 /).-
Thomas Wedderburn' [1500 ?— 15C8 ?], generally designed Sir (Dominu.s) Tiiomiw
Wedderburn. This individual is constantly named jis chaplain of vari.)uscli:ipi.inirie«
in Dundee, viz., those of S. ilichael, Our Lady in the Cowg.ait, the Muirdaluio iiltur,
and S. John in Sklaitt Hewchis. He was probably an ecck-.'.i.wlic, and owi'd his
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See for these references the small minute booka in the Diuulee Cli.irter R.-mi in ••tm:. MSS.
' A Matthew Wedderburn is uameil, at a later date, 1646-S4, in the EdinUnri;'!! ^LAii-n^-ilr, i;/-»-i.t««
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D.P.B. 7 14, 24 b, 30 n, > :
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