Memorandum regarding the Fairweathers of Menmuir Parish, Forfarshire, and others of the surname

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as a Notary in Haddington, and witnessed as ' Schir ' John
Knox.
(Note by the Editor. — The last extract was evidently the
final legal warrant, or ratification, of the lands of Findowrie
to Cullace of Balnamoon ; connected with the transfer of 1551.
Sir Walter Fairvedder must have lived to be an old man, for
he figures in these ' instruments ' during forty years. The
Charters are in dog legal Latin.)
Passing to Dundee, in the ' Howff ' burying ground there,
on the western border, is a very old flat monumental stone,
with an inscription rapidly becoming obliterated. It is to the
Memory of Thomas and Robert Fairvedder — probably father and
son ; the latter was a Litster, or Dyer. The former is re-
corded to have died in 1583, aged 44, <and the latter in 1609;
a curious monogram of Eoberts' is copied from the gravestone,
in * Jervise's Memorials of Angus and Mearns.'
In the same ' Howff ' there was, or still is, another grave-
stone, with the following record: — "Here resteth in the Lord,
" William and George Fairweathers, Skippers; of pious, virtuous
" and upright life, who lived with the love of all persons, and
" at their death were much lamented, (the father deceased 13th