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1304 THE WEDDERBUEN BOOK.Dundee 38. 1613. Sept. 21.—Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, younger, is elected on the council, (5.)Books.39. 1614. April 19.— Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, clerk, appoints Mr. John Dynmure,notary, his substitute. (15.)40. 1614. Sept. 21.—James Wedderburn is elected a counsellor.41. 1615. April 11.—Mr. James Wedderburn acts as notary to an assedation. (22.)42. 1615. Sept. 20.— Alexander Wedderburn, merchant, is elected on the council andput on the leet for bailie. (26.)43. 1615. Oct. 3.—Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, younger, elected Sept. 24, accepts theoffice of bailie, and gives his oath for faithful administration. (27.)44. 1617. Nov. 14.—Compeared Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, common clerk of the burghof Dundee, and declared that he was employed to attend this winter season, in hisMajesty's service, as one of the Commissioners, appointed by Act of Parliament forplanting of the Kirks and modifying of the stipends of ministers serving the cure ofthe said Kirks, and that being careful that in his absence his office be served, he has,with consent of the Provost, "bailies and council, nominated and elected Mr. James"Wedderburn, his lawful son, to be his depute and substitute in his office, giving himpower to use the same in all respects as any clerk depute within any burgh in therealm, untill it shall please Mr. Alexander Wedderburn to discharge him, withoutprejudice to the right of Mr. James Wedderburn to the office. The said Mr. JamesWedderburn accepts cf the same, and gives his oath for the faithful administrationthereof. (43.)45. 1618. Sept. 27.—James Wedderburn is elected a bailie. (47.)46. 1621. Aug. 15. —James Gibsone, merchant, is convicted, on his own confession, ofslandering Magdalene Wedderburn, wife of Thomas Jack, merchant, and JanetClayhills, wife of Thomas Wichtane, in the market place of Perth, and is fined andbound over. (59.)47. 1623. Oct. 2.—James Wedderburn is elected kirk-master. (66.)48. 1624. Sept. 24.—Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, younger, is elected dean of gild. (73.)49. 1627. May 25.— Mr. James Wedderburne, present common, clerk of the burgh ofof Dundee, being sick and bedfast, and thereby not being able to exercise and use hisoffice during that time, and being careful that no neighbour nor inhabitant thereofbe harmed nor frustrated in their particular "adoes," appoints, with consent of themagistrates, Thomas Fyff, his servitor, his depute and substitute in the said office,during the time of his sickness. (83.)50. 1627. (a) Sept. 18.—Peter Wedderburn nominated for the new council. (84.)(I,) Oct. 2.—Peter Wedderburn, younger, elected collector of the unlaws. (84.(c) Oct. 14.—Alexander Wedderburn, elder, merchant, appointed a collector oftaxations (88), and again 26 Nov., 1633, Alexander Wedderburn, merchant, soelected. (104.)51. 1628. Feb. 12.—Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, notary public, signs for vai-iouspersons. (86).52. 1628-29. James Wedderburn is elected dean of gild. He also acts as bailie, &c.(89-93.)53. 1630. Jan. 6.— On a complaint by Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, eldest son of Mr.James Wedderburn, v. Matthew Thomson, pretended heritor and possessor of atenement in North Ai'gylegait, next to the land of the heirs of the said Mi'. James