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craftily afforded assistance, advance, and favour ; as also have rashly and wickedly
presumed to hide and secretly detain rents, fruits, lands, houses, possessions, and
quantities of other things, moveable and immoveable, clothes, rings, precious stones,
beds, and other household furniture, horses and other animals, books, writings, tes-
taments, sums of money, and many other goods, moveable and unmoveable, law-
fully pertaining and belonging to the said Gilbert Wauchope, as well by reason of
the said piece of land or place, and of his person, as of the heritable succession of
his parents and deceased relatives, to whom he stands heir in whole or in part, and
that the said Gilbert Wauchope had implored relief at the proper seat of justice.
Therefore the Pope intrusted to the discretion of the said venerable father, Dean
and Commissary, to admonish publicly in Churches, before the people, by them-
selves or others, all holders of the premises, afforders of advice, assistance, and
favour, and secret detainers of the boundaries, limits, marches, rents, fruits, and
other goods, that they should, within a competent specified time, restore and
discover these things to the said Gilbert Wauchope, or to the Abbot of the said
Monastery for the time being, and give full and due satisfaction for the losses oc-
casioned by them in the premises ; and if that should not be done within another
competent specified time, that then they should pronounce a general sentence of
excommunication against these persons, and cause the same to be solemnly pub-
lished when and where it should seem proper, till suitable satisfaction was made.*
Gilbert, the successor of this laird of Niddrie, took an active part in pro-
moting the Reformation. He was present at Knox's first sermon at St Andrews
in 1547. Knox himself, in his History, records the Laird of Niddrie's opinion
of this discourse : " Others said, Master George Wischarde spake never so plainly,
and yet he was burnt, even so will he be. The tyranny of the Cardinal made not
his cause the better, neither yet the suffering of God's servants made his cause
the worse. And therefore we would counsell you to provide better defences than
fire and sword ; for it may be that else ye will be disappointed. Men have now
other eyes than they had then." " This answer," says Knox, " gave the Laird of
Nydrie, a man fervent and upright in religion." Gilbert Wauchope of Niddrie
was a member of the famous Parliament, held at Edinburgh in August 1560, by
which the Reformation was established.!
During the next succession various off-shoots branched from the family.
Gilbert was the first of the Stottencletuih Wauchopes. He had a charter of that
property in 1578. Adam had a charter of Caikmuir in 1576. The former of
* Niddrie Charter Chest, t Acts of Parliament.
craftily afforded assistance, advance, and favour ; as also have rashly and wickedly
presumed to hide and secretly detain rents, fruits, lands, houses, possessions, and
quantities of other things, moveable and immoveable, clothes, rings, precious stones,
beds, and other household furniture, horses and other animals, books, writings, tes-
taments, sums of money, and many other goods, moveable and unmoveable, law-
fully pertaining and belonging to the said Gilbert Wauchope, as well by reason of
the said piece of land or place, and of his person, as of the heritable succession of
his parents and deceased relatives, to whom he stands heir in whole or in part, and
that the said Gilbert Wauchope had implored relief at the proper seat of justice.
Therefore the Pope intrusted to the discretion of the said venerable father, Dean
and Commissary, to admonish publicly in Churches, before the people, by them-
selves or others, all holders of the premises, afforders of advice, assistance, and
favour, and secret detainers of the boundaries, limits, marches, rents, fruits, and
other goods, that they should, within a competent specified time, restore and
discover these things to the said Gilbert Wauchope, or to the Abbot of the said
Monastery for the time being, and give full and due satisfaction for the losses oc-
casioned by them in the premises ; and if that should not be done within another
competent specified time, that then they should pronounce a general sentence of
excommunication against these persons, and cause the same to be solemnly pub-
lished when and where it should seem proper, till suitable satisfaction was made.*
Gilbert, the successor of this laird of Niddrie, took an active part in pro-
moting the Reformation. He was present at Knox's first sermon at St Andrews
in 1547. Knox himself, in his History, records the Laird of Niddrie's opinion
of this discourse : " Others said, Master George Wischarde spake never so plainly,
and yet he was burnt, even so will he be. The tyranny of the Cardinal made not
his cause the better, neither yet the suffering of God's servants made his cause
the worse. And therefore we would counsell you to provide better defences than
fire and sword ; for it may be that else ye will be disappointed. Men have now
other eyes than they had then." " This answer," says Knox, " gave the Laird of
Nydrie, a man fervent and upright in religion." Gilbert Wauchope of Niddrie
was a member of the famous Parliament, held at Edinburgh in August 1560, by
which the Reformation was established.!
During the next succession various off-shoots branched from the family.
Gilbert was the first of the Stottencletuih Wauchopes. He had a charter of that
property in 1578. Adam had a charter of Caikmuir in 1576. The former of
* Niddrie Charter Chest, t Acts of Parliament.
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