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——1DOCUMENTS PRESERVED AT THE HERALDS' COLLEGE, LONDON.Heralds' In .Tune 1891 I had a general search made at the Heralds' College in London forPaDefsfauy Wedderburn material preserved there, and in response received the following listof references:Hawker's Index :—Peers, ii. 10 (Record) ; Peers (rough',, i. 159, iii. 131 ; Baronets, ii. 521, 527-28(Record), 8 D. 14, 58-59 (Record) ; I., xxxiii. 280 ; si. 121 ; xli. 194. H-Z , xxvi. 278 ; xxvii. 177.B and P, K. iii. 138 ; B. ii. 403-12, vi. 134. W.C. Peers, i. 3*4-35. Barts., ii. 70. To these must now beadded one later reference— " Norfolk, xvi. 94."I was also informed that nothing material was to be found in the collections ofPhilipot, Vincent, Radcliffe, St. George Warburtou, Francis Townshend, Sir Ralph Bigland,and Sir Charles G. Young. 1The material thus obtained is not very extensive. It consists of four pedigrees(1783— 1893), which are termed "records," that is to say, that the facts stated in themhave been accepted as proved by the Heralds' College, after a presumably strictexamination. So far as these facts are obviously within the knowledge of the person signingthe recorded pedigree, they may be said to be legally proved by these documents. Inaddition to these records there are three licenses for a change of surname and arms, afew casual notes, and one or two unrecorded " hearsay " pedigrees of little value.The whole of the material may be classified thus :I. Pedigree of Alexander Wedderburn, Lord Loughborough, recorded on hiselevation to the peerage, 1783, together with certain material relating thereto,and, later, an additional draft pedigree, which was never recorded.II. Pedigree of Sir David Wedderburn, first baronet ofIII.IV.V.VI.Ballindean, recorded on hiscreation as a baronet, 1803, together with a note of the registration of his arms.Pedigree of John Wedderburn of Spring Garden (son of Thomas Wedderburnof Cantra), recorded 1799.Pedigree of the descent from Thomas Wedderburn of Cantra, recorded 1892.Licenses to assume and bear certain surnames and arms.Some casual notes.Pedigree ofhis elevation to the peerage.I.Alexander Wedderburn, Lord Loughborough, recorded (1782) soon after(i.) The Recorded Pedigree (Peers ii. 10.)Arms.—The Wedderburn shield bearing a shield of pretence (vert, a wavy bend charged with threemartlets) being the arms of his first wife ; see pedigree. Above the shield is a baron's coronet,and above that an eagle's head and the motto, " Illoeso lumine solem."Peter Wedderburn of Chester Hall, in the shire of Haddington, one oftheLords of Session in Scotland. Son and heir of Alexander Wedderburn,a commissioner of the excise, youngest son of Sir PeterWedderburn of Gosford in the said shire. Bart. D. 11 August 1756 ;buried in the Grey Friers New Church Yard, Edinburgh.Janet, daughter of David Ogilvy,Esq., Captain in the first Regiment ofDragoons ; died in June 1771, andwas buried at Kensington in thecounty of Middlesex.Alexander Wedderburn, one= -Betty Anne, sole childof His Majesty'sPrivy Counciland Lord Chief Justice of son of Morley, in theand heir of John Daw-the Common Pleas. Created county of York. Marriedat Battley in the14 June 1780 Lord Loughborough,Baron of Loughboroughin the county of 1767. Died 15 Feb.said county 31 Dec.Leicester, to him and the 1781 ; buried at Morley.heirs male of his body.David Wedderburn,a Brigadier Generalin the service of theEast India Companyand Colonel of HisMajesty's forees;slainat the re-taking ofBaroahiul773. Unmarried.Janet,onlydau.--Sir Henry Erslcineof Alva, Baronet,Lieutenant-Gen.Col. of the RoyalRegiment. Diedat York in July1765.Sir James Erskine,Baronet.JohnErskine.Henrietta MariaErskine.This Pedigree proved before the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords 27 May 1782.Ralph Bigland, Garter.Isaac Heard, Clarenceux.1See as to these writers and heralds Noble's History of the College of Arms.