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120 THE WEDDEKUURX liDUK.
Part II.
Cbap. II.
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dated 5 June 1583, when kIic agrees with her brother Davul to give liim a cloak on
the day of her marriajre, while he promi.seti to pay her two "erowiiesof the sone " in
eveiitot' her i:ot luanyiiii; within the year(D.lMi. l'-J9). Shemu.st have married soon
after, as 19 Oct. in the same year she is spoken of as the future wife of Peter (sou
of Peter) Clayiiills (l).B.K. "ic^), and thereafter she and her husband are often
named, eg, 21 May 15t*9 (D.I'.i;. 277), wiien they jrrant an annual-rent out of
Ballisak to George Lindsay and Grisild Wedderburn, liis wife (ante, p. 2.')). They
liad witii other issue a son. Alexander, on wliom settlements wore made 20 Oct. 1595
and 28 March 1597 (l).l' B. 304 /j, 310), and who was ultiniatelv returned heir to
hisfathcr 15 April l(il2 ;S.\V. 175 ; Il.D. 32). Peter Clayhills, "'my gude brother,"
is occasionally named in 1 'avid Wedderburn 's Comid Bui'k M.W. 3, i \ a).' He and
his wife got sasine of a North Seagait laud, 28 Feb. 15DS (D.P 1>. 327), and are
named as granting a discharge, 27 May 1602 {ib. 348 n). He was a bailie iu
Dundee (D.i; R. 402). The year of his death is not fi.\cd, but it was before
3 June IC09. the date of a bond in which his wife is named as his relict (II D. 33).
She was living 15 April 1612 (S W. 175), and is no doubt the Margaret Wedderburn,
not designed, who is named in the Dundee records 16031 7 (D.B.U., vols,
xxii.-v.), e.g 26 July 1617, when she gets a decree for the niaills of a house of
which she had the life-rent (D.B.R. 400 6). She died 20 Sept. 1617, and is referred
to as deceased IS Nov. 1617, when her daughter, Helen Clayhills, is named as her
executri.K (D.DU. 402). She was buried in the Howft' of Dundee under a tomb,
upon which was an inscription, partly legible as follows in 1834 :
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• • • dormit matrona omni " " virtute " • insigni.-> Margarets ' \Vfc