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144 THE WEDDERBURN LOOK.
Part II. occupy it loiij;,' and on whose death in May 1G27, Alexander entered on the office and Iicid
Chap. n.jj. yj,^ji jan^es' son was old eiioiip;h to fill it. Thus the Alexander, clerk of Dundee
June 1627— Ajiril 16;53, is Alexander, second of Kingennie, e.q., ''> Jul}- 1G"27, 21 March,
28 July 1628 (S.W. 229, 230-31 ; D.C. ,'i7 ; D.D. 2),- and 30 June 1629, 26 July 1632
in the admissions of his sons as burgesses (D.L.B. 45, 48). No protocol book of liis
ia now extant, but one such volume, at any rate, is referred to in the records, when a
sasine of 2f> April 1632 in the protocol book of the late Jlr. Alexander Weddcrbuni of
Kingennie, clerk of Dundee, "a loyal and faithful notary " is tran-sunied, 15 April 1040 (S.W.
279 ; D.B R. 441 a). On ceasing to be clerk, he was elected. If! .luue 1633, comiui.ssioucr
to parliament for Dundee (A.P.S. 15/' : and later in that year, I Oct., was elected councillor
(D.C.B. 55), and is often named as such and as collector of taxations 16.34-37 {ib. 56).
He is now constantly called " elder " to distinguish him from his nephew, e.r]., in the last two
references (D.C B. n5, 56) and in 1636 Jan 9, June 28, July 4, when ho is again named
as clerk of Dundee, and as holding courts as clerk (D.A.C.B. 3), probably in his nephew's
absence. He was also clerk and kee[)er of the Forfar Register of Sasines for some
years, and is so named 15 July 1624 (S.W. 214); 6 Feb. 1627 (G S.R. 100); 12 .luno
1629 (F.S. 13) ; 14 Oct. 1633" (D.C. 63; ; 1 Aug. 1637, just before his death (F.S. 34) ;
and 13 Sept. 1637, when the post is dechired vacant by his decease {ih. 4).
He was his father's heir and executor, and, as such, paid over to his sister
Elizabeth a sum due to her, and got a discharge from her and her husband, Dr. Bruce,
23 May 1623 (S.W. 223), as he did also, 11 Xov. 1G26, from the Rev. John Duncansone of
Dundee, for payment of a legacy of 100 merks left to the minister by old Kingennie (//*. 225),
and, 25 Nov. in the same year, from his sister ilagdalen and her second husband for payment
of her tocher (^V,. 226).^ It is as his father's heir and successor that his uncle David
makes a memorandum to " persew " him " for the soumes and caussis specefeit in my
clame " (D.W. 19 a).-' His executorship continues to be mentioned in 1627, in which year,
9 July, he pays over the 500 merks left by his father to the poor of Dundee (D.C. 55)
and, 8 Nov., gets a discharge for 200 merks from his brother William (S.W. 232). In the
next year, 13 Xov. 1628, he pays over to his brother Peter two sums of £1,050 and
£1,000 which had been assigned" to Peter by their father {ih. 237).
On the death of his father he succeeded to Kingennie and Wester Gourdie, being
first designed "of Kingennie, bailie of Dundee " in a bond by him to his brother John,
13 May 1626 (R.D. 99', while the precept to infeft him in Wester Gourdie is dated ten
days later, 23 May (S.W. 222),'^ though sasine thereon did not follow for a year, 18 May
1627 {il). 227;G.R.S. 2)." I do find his retour in Kingemiie, but he contracted to .set
it in tack for five years at 88 bolls victual a year, 21 Dec. 1626 {iX.D. 96), ^ and of
course got sasine of it, registered in June 1630 (G.R.S. 4). There is, 9 April 162S, a
precept to infeft him in an annual rent (which his father had held) out of the lands of
James Ferriar (S.W. 234 ; P.B.N. 20); 30 Sept. 1629, he was infeft, as his father's heir,
in a South Markelgait tenement which he at once alienates to his brother William
(P.B.N. 22), and, 163 1, he got sasine of another land in Dundee (G.R.S. b). He had
some diftereuce with Durhame of Umquhy (Omachie) anent the marches of Kingennie
and, 6 June 1631, protests against a boundary dyke built by Durhame (D.P.B. 487), and
in the next year, 11 Dec. 1632, had litigation re the muir of Downy, when the Earl of
'
Even in Jame.^' lif;tiuie we fiuil him acting as clerk 3 July 16'26 'S W. 2i!4).
' See abo 2 Oct. 16-J J, wlieu he e.\tractf( an in.strumeut (D..\.C.Ii. 2) ; 11 April 1631, notary (S.W. 248) ;
3 Sept. 1631, ciutioner (R.D. 116i ; 13 .Sept. 1632, notary (D.C. 60) : 29 .Sept. 1632, notary (S.W.
256) ; 19 Nov. 163-1, bouJ to liiiu (D.D. 4), ami refereuce.s after hisdeath to traiisumptsof docuineut.s
made by him (S.W. 290, 297 ; D.B.R. 441 a). He is also named as notary, though not a.s clerk.
12 Feb. 1628 (D.C'.E. 51).
' The entry i3 " Mai-ter Alexander Wedderburne, commissioner for Dundee " wliicli m'ght refer to his
nephew, the clerk, but as he was only twenty-three years old, 1 tbink it more probably his uncle.
In the one cai-e the words '' of Kingennie " and in tlie other " clerk of Dundee " are omitted.
• See also another discharge of a bond of his by Haliburtou to him, 31 May 1627 (S.W. 228). I'robably he
had in the first instance given Haliburton a bond for the tocher.
' See ante, p. 108, n. 1, as to this claim.
• There is a discharge to him, 30 May 1630, of a sum due by bond. In this di.~charge he is still called
" apparent of Kingauv. bailie and dean of gild of Dundee." owing. I suijpose, to the words of the
discharge f