Wedderburn book > History

PREFACE.
most of the first volume I have to acknowledge the kind help of Mr. Preface.
J. H. Percival in reading the final revises of that part of this history of
his mother's family. The various spelling of the same name or word is not,
it may be noted, due to oversight, but to the fact that I have followed in
each case the particular record quoted, and have made no attempt at
uniformity.
The illustrations to the book are not all as satisfactory as I could have
wished, but the expense of obtaining authentic evidence has compelled
economy in other directions. In the first volume I have placed the portraits
of some of the more notable members of the family in days gone by,
together with facsimiles of a letter from Sir Peter, Lord Gosford, of a
beautiful one from Thomas Wedderburn of Cantra (my great-great-grandfather),
written the night before Culloden, and of that addressed by Sir John
Wedderburn to his wife, the night before his execution in 1746. In the
second volume will be found reproduced some old family registers, the
symbols (1525 — 1740) of the Wedderburns, notaries 'and clerks of Dundee, a
letter from Sir Alexander, fourth baronet of Blackness, and the signatures of
various members of the family from 1540 to 1800. A glossary of some old
and otherwise uncommon words used in the records, and a full index to the
whole work, is added at the close of the second volume.
Alexander Wedderburn.
1898.