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—1pPUBLIC EECORDS—LONDON. 525In compiling this pedigree recourse would seem to have been had to the Lyon Office in Heralds'Edinburgh, from one of whose officials, James Cummyng, a letter and some enclosures pfilfr.fwas received by the Heralds' College in London, among whose papers they still remain.{Beltz and Pullman's Collection, B. ii. 403-12.)(ii.) Letter from James Cummyng, of the Lyon Office, Edinburgh, to the Heralds' College, London. 1Sir,—Immediately on receipt of your letter of the 17th, I made an exact survey of the monumentalinscriptions in Gray Friars church yard here (Edinburgh) and found but one relating to the family ofWedderburn, in the inclosed part of the burying ground on the south side where there is a long inscriptionin English cut in small letters on a white stone, but so much defaced on account of the badness of thestone as to be almost illegible 2 ; the first four lines are larger, and though much obscured appear to be asfollows :Here lies interredAlexander Wedderburn, Esquire,Younger son of Sir Peter Wedderburnof Gosford, one of the Senators of theColledge of Justice ...In the churchyard of Dundee there is the following monumental Inscription over the burial place ofAlexander Wedderburn of Easter Powrie, the brother's son of James Wedderburn of Blackness, Esq.,mentioned in the Birth-brief." Conditur hoc tumulo Alexander Wedderburn Dominus de Easter Powrie. Familiae sua? princeps,nuperrime huic Urbi praefectus, ejusdem ad Parliamentum primum Supremi Domini nostri regis Caroli IIdelegatus: obiit 9 die Aprilis A.D. 1683, retat 68. Hie etiam conquiescunt ossa Elizabetha? Ramsay illiusprimi amoris uxoris. filial unicEe Joannis Ramsay, Fratris Domini de Murie hujusque urbis olim pratoris,quae obiit 2 Apr. 1643, setat 22."In the same burying ground is the following inscription over the burial place of Sir AlexanderWedderburn of Blackness, elder brother of Sir Peter Wedderburn of Gosford, Lord of Session, mentionedin the enclosed Birth-brief :—" Hie jacet D. Alexander Wedderburn, Dominus de Blackness, Civitatis Taodunanae secretariusdignissimus, qui obiit 18 Nov. 1676, aetat suae 66."Also the following " Elizabetha Wedderburna ex antiqua Wedderburuorum familia oriundaRoberto Moravio marito sibique in memoriam ponebat quae post aliquos annos virum secuta obiitMors sola fateturQuantula sunt hominum corpuscula."There is in the churchyard at Coupar in Fife an inscription over the bodies of James Wedderburne,minister of Moonsie, and William his son. 3There is no record of any escutcheon used at the funerals of any of the persons mentioned in yours,but I have compiled from sundry evidents the enclosed birth-brief or proof of gentility of the twogentlemen you mention, from which the sixteen branches of the funeral escutcheons as exhibited in thiscountry are taken. The Escutcheons of Sir Peter Wedderburn of Gosford and of Peter his grandson,who was a Lord of Session, if you think it necessary, shall likewise be made out but as you are desirous tohave a return soon I send what is ready and shall wait your further orders. I am sir, your most ob'humble servant,John Cummyng.With these papers is placed another pedigree, apparently a draft of the recorded one opposite, thoughit differs from it by reason of some additions, and one or two errors, viz., " Kennington " for" Kensington," and " Henrietta, Maria " for " Henrietta Maria." Lord Loughborough's shield isinserted on an interleaf.Alexander Wedderburn, youngest son=j=Mary Daes, daughter andof Sir Peter Wedderburn of Gosford in heiress of John Daes ofthe county of Haddington in Scotland, Coldingknows in theCommissioner of Excise.county of Berwick.Peter Wedderburn of Chester Hall, co.=Haddington aforesaid, one of the Lordsof Session in Scotland. Ob. 1756.:Janet, daughter of David Ogilvy, Captain 11thRegiment Dragoons. Ob June 1771. Buriedat Kennington, co. Middlesex.Alexander Wed-=Betty Anne, only surderburn(same viving child of Johnas the recorded Dawson of Morley,pedigree (a), but Yorkshire, m. at Batadds," born at ley in co. Yorkshire,Edinburgh "). 17—.David Wedderburn, Colonel ofFoot and Brigadier-General, inEast Indian Company's service.Slain at the taking of Baroach,near Bombay 1774. Administration22 Feb. 1774.Sir James Erskine,Baronet.JohnErskine.Janet,:bornat —Henrietta.Sir Henry Erskine,Bart., ofAlva.d. at York1765.—Maria.It is now (1895) quite illegible.The last two epitaphs appear to be mentioned on the authority of Menteith's Theater of Mortality,and not on that of the original tombstones, which are now quite undiscoverable.