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and
THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
introd. Elizabeth herself was thrice married, viz., (I) before 161G. to Robert Murrav
1646
;
and (3) at Dundee in l^l'^K t^'^J"^ ^ethT
She was hvmg m IG0+, but ,.s not mentioned later. On her death X wS
Hnwff 7 n''T °, ^'^"\ '^''" customary, with her first hu.band, a X
Sr^h K t l^'^^'^ath a nionu.nent de.scnbe3 her bearing as "sprung a Latin inscription whch
from the ancient hou^e of Wedderburn
having after some " aJd a^
years." followed Murray to the -rave
rhave yet to give an account of the eldest of the three "reformers"
Jamesat Dieppe JT^{ ,' ^'^^ ^''^ two brothers, is described in the passac^e
died 1553.
PP^ of Calderwood from which I have quoted above. He is named
•"" books as
1^17 .nl
"^f.^^^t*^^
having bien admitted a
1517, and again
burgess
as his
in
father's heir in 1521, while the register
Seal
of
contains t"ie
charters, Grelt
dated 1527-28 and 1533, of lands in the baronies of Ferne
Ifter ^^yP'^; "'"'^^ Z ^^'"""^ °'' ^'^" ^"^ ^'« ^"f^ ^"'i tlieir
After _lo37.
^on
however, his
John
name drops almost entirely out
This of
IS, probably the ;ecord;
because his religious zeal-or that of his
-drove him out
opponents
of Scotland to France, where he "played the merchant 'a1
!.•"'
his persecutors tried to get the Bishop" of
«J«frff-
Eou^
against
to
hira as a
proceed
heretic, but as they could prove nothing
bishop a^^ainst
declined to him the
interfere, and Wedderburn continued to trade with his natve
'"^''^
flT.A 1? I't^-""' ,*r'^ f^"^*^ ^*
thus ^^