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SIR JOIIX OF GOSFOIID. 133
27 Oct. ItJlT, he ia a -witness (D I'.C. 417); 7 Nov. Iil21, hj boi-rows from his Part it.
uncle David " 4 buiki.s Socrates bchyf .Moral Philosophie," au I un " Krasnuis Chap. in.
m In-lis" (D.-W. -Ill) ;. anil five years later, IGiil, lie joins with his hrotiier Jame.i
in witnessing a charter in favour of Graham of Claverhonse, who gets sasine
thereon 4 Sept. (P.B.X. 13); and, K May, is grantee of a bond bv his eldest
brother, Alexander (R.D. 09). He is called a regent of S. Leonard's College on an
occasion, 23 May, 1620, when he witnesses adiscliarge bvliissister Elizal)eth (S.W.
223), and again, 20 .liuie, in a bond of which lie is grantee (U.K. 97) lie is named
in 1027 as a witness, 28 May, to the will of his brother James (Lir.T. 10), and 13 Oct.,
when he and his brother Peter granted a charter of si.\ acres in the Westlield of
Dundee to Sir W. (Jrahani of Claverhou.se (P.I5.X. 19), so that he was still in the
North in that year, and he must have continued there 1029-3 1, as we find him
named as a regent of S. Leonard's 26 June lti29 ((i.S.U. 102), 2S .Vjiril, 31 .May,
1630, when he is grantee of two bonds (R D. 11.'), 125), and 13 Aug. in that year,
when his brother William's widow, Jeane Piersoun, .assigns to him a life-ren't, to
which she was entitled under her marriage contract ((;.U..S. 7). We have already
seen that he was William's heir, being so entered 1031, in the South .Markot'.'ait land,
of which he granted a charter to his brother Kingennie (S.W. 219-50; I'.li.N. 23, 25).
He is said to have travelled abroad for some years, and this is very iirobalily true.
There is a factory granted by him to one of his family 7 .lune lO.'il, which was
probably made on his leaving home (R.D. 100a). This "tact'iry is reeonled iu the
minute-book, but not iu the record, so that its terms do not ajviM'ar. It would seem,
however, to have been granted to his nephew the clerk and 'riiom.is Wichtan, as,
soon after he returns home, ho grants, 17 April 1638, a discharge to thcni "of their
intromissions with his aft'airs during his absence fnim Scotland (/A. 12S). Ho was
thus home by the early part of 1038, aud may have been back earlier, .as there is au
action by him "once regent of S. Leonard's" aLraiust Haliburton of I'itcur, upon
a bond of 31 May 1630 (R.D. U.i, ll9),i aud \\2 is also grantee of a bond made
at Edinburgh in Feb. 1637 {ih. 124). He is one of those who are to advise as to
the investment of the moneys settled by the m.arriage contract, 5 Jan. 10;tS, of his
nephew, Alexander (Bl. 14), to the baptism of whose sou John, at Dundee, he is
wituesa, 12 Feb. 1041 (Bl. 9).-'
After this there is no reference to his presence in Dundee, or, indeed, in
Scotland for many years, and he, no doubt, was again in F.ngland aud aljroad.
In 1646 (April 9) he was admitted an honorary member of the I'niversity of
O.\ford, in connection with which event the followin'_' account of him is given in
the Fuxii Ojronienses of Anthony Wood (vol. ii, 92. ed. I'.liss, )81.'))^ :
" .John Wedderburu (he write.?"), doctor of phy.sic ill the I'liiversity of S. Aiidrt-w.i in Scotlnnd,
was then incorporated by virtue of the letter of the Clmiiccllor of thi' Univci-sity. wliicli tflU m
that he is one of His Majesty '.s Physicians in ordinary and * trcntlcnian of kiH'wn l•llnlin^^ and of
vast ex]>erieuce. He was oi-iginally a Professor of Philosophy iik the ^dii L'uivrr^ity, but that
being too narrow a place for so great a person, he left it, tnivflli'd into vaii..ui x.unirics nr.d
became so celebrated for his great learning and Kkill in plly^ick that he «h» the clii'l niiui of hi»
country for many years for that faculty. Afterwanls, he reci'ivc