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ALEXANDER, FIRST OF KINGEXXIE. 125<br />

clerk's merits and his coustiiiit <strong>in</strong>timacy with his sovereign are thus recordoil by Edward, Part II.<br />

<strong>the</strong> historian <strong>of</strong> Anf;us (J W. 107}, and m<strong>in</strong>ister <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> l)ari^ll <strong>of</strong> Murroes <strong>in</strong> which ^'^^P- '"•<br />

K<strong>in</strong>gennie is situated,:— "Ex pcrantiqua Wedderhurnorum steuimate ilie writes <strong>in</strong> 1G78)<br />

Alexander Wedderburu pulhilavit, (pii <strong>in</strong> prudentia politi<strong>ca</strong> salutirrima tantus evasit, ut<br />

ilium rex sereniss<strong>in</strong>ius Jacobus sextus ad <strong>in</strong>tima maxim<strong>in</strong>uc nionicnti consilia saepius<br />

iuvitatum, ult<strong>in</strong>iuni amplectaretur, reu<strong>ca</strong>lliterquc rcmuneratum demitterat " (,I.\V. 107).i<br />

He was aj^a<strong>in</strong> commissioner for Dundee <strong>in</strong> lt;u6 and 1()07 I D.C. !'•. -'U ; A.l'.S. f, 'J i, <strong>in</strong> which<br />

year, 20 Jan., lie was summoned to appear before <strong>the</strong> I'rivy Council re tiie nuniieipal troubles<br />

<strong>in</strong> Dundee (R.P.C. 34) and <strong>in</strong> IfJO'J<br />

; and 1G12 he was also <strong>in</strong> parliament, and on ditterent<br />

commissions anent penal statutes, taxation, anlii[) to his<br />

second son James <strong>in</strong> event <strong>of</strong> his own death or <strong>in</strong>ability (D.C.I!. 2'

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