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34 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Part I. Parentis Johannis Wodderborn, quondam huij' marchionatus Morauia Prototnedicj, merito ibidem in Scotia
Chap. I. aliquamdiu morari, meaq^ bona paterna, qua' mihi more et iure seotieo, causa prioritatis mea', debeutur
App. I. perlustrare deberem ; Quoniam autem absentiarn meam superius deuominata obstacula eausant, et tameu
necessarium est, ut de paternis mei's bonis in ciuitate Dondie, in uice eomitatu de angus, inquiram et
rationes cum prouentibus, qui hactenus ab obitu defuncta' sororis parentis mei, debentur, exigam ; Et
quoniam intellexi, quod V'ra D'o curam domorum mearu aliarumq^ rerum ibidem nescio tamen cuij'nam
intromissione, hactenus susceperit, ego proiuterim gratias ago. At, cum nunc mea interest, ut cum
paterna mea ha'reditate, qua' mihi secundum prioritatem successions paterna', more scotico, coram Deo,
et mundo debetur, libere disponere possim. Ideo ego Dominationem Vesfcram, ignote quidem, officiose
tamen requiro, et rogo, ut non solum rationes, et prouentus, dictarum domorum et rerum perutinentium
etc : a tempore intromissionis, uerum etiam ipsa privilegia omnia, qua' sub eij' manibus, uti scio, sunt
Consauguineo uieo. Domino Alexandro Halliburton, queni ego pro Plenipotentiary prointerim confidenter
constitui, placide tradat, quod etiam a. V'ra D'ne, ad couseruandam futuram amicitiam fieri miuime dubito.
Et si Vestra D'o in hisce nostris partibus moravias aliquid negotii haberet, mihi nuntiare vellet, inseruiam
lubenti animo, Quern penes divinam protectionem officiose saluto et maueo.
Dabantur Brume 14 Julij Nobilis ae favorabilis D is V'ras
A 1651. paratus a servitio
Addressed on the back : — Joannes Jacobus Wodderborn.
Nobilis ac favorabili Domino Alex-
andro Wodderborn a Kingennie and
Domino amico suo colendissimo
in ciuitate Dondie, in paternis meis s N.
laribus commoranti, pateant. { Ls - )
Dondie. ^- — s
This letter is sealed with a small red seal, showing a shield on which is a (very wide) chevron between
three roses. The chevron is charged with what may be a fleur-de-lys. There is a little mantling rouud
the shield and above it is a helmet full faced, surmounted by what is either a feather or fleur-de-lys. On
one side of it are the letters H.I., and on the other a \V. for Herr (?) Johannes Wedderburn. A facsimile
of the signature is given in vol. ii., opp. p. 32.
IV. Draft letter (abstract) from Alexander Wedderburn of Kingennie to John
James Wedderburn (S.W. 304).
This letter, which is in Latin, is dated at Kingennie " 5 July 1652," and signed " tuus amantissimus
consanguineus Alexander Wedderburne a Kinganie." It is written on a single sheet of paper. I have
omitted to take a full copy of it, but it is to the following effect. After acknowledging the receipt of the
foregoing letter of 14 July 1651, concerning the property of his correspondent's late venerated father,
situated in Dundee, and given by their father to the brother of John James Wedderburn, as more fully
set forth in a letter of which an authentic copy is enclosed, Kingennie hopes that John James will so
reverence the will of his father as to approve of the gift made to his brother whereby the name of
Wedderburn should be preserved in those properties.
V. Letter from John James Wedderburn at Ollmutz to Alexander Wedderburn of
Kingennie ^S.W. 305).
Right honorabl, I receauid your 1 letter deittet the 5 of July 1652 And returnes you thanks for your
respects to my Father of worthie memorie exprest in your cair of his lands in Scotland. I haue learm'd
from the copie of my father his letter and your oune that he hed couferd all uhat belongd to him in
Scotland upon my brother and that accordinglie yee refuisse me for ther ouner. Treulie, Sirr, I reuerance
my father his intention to bestou such uith my consent, yet I belieu yee uil find neather my consent,
giuen nor yeet anie ualed disposition made by him, bot I niynd not to plead my richt in this by penne
althogh nothing mor then your refuisall might prouock me to appropriat them to my self!', houbeit I hope
Sirr you will not theuck becaus I did demand thes ureatts in my oune nam from you that therfor they
wer to goe out of the nam. neather in that I intended to tak them from you that therfor 1 did tak them
from my brother, nor yett becaus I apoynted the cair of them to my cussing, that therfor he should possess
them as his heritadg, bot that in releiuing you he might ouersee them (as in my judgment mor pertinent
to hym) untill farder order uhither from me or my brother yet I trust uithout prceiudic to you and seeing
my brother leiues nou uith me who am or at the lest shuld be as tender of his uellfarr as anie man els, I
uill one mor entrait youe both from him and me to disburden your selff in delyuering unto my cussing
Alexander Halyburton, the euidents of thes landes with ane acompt of your intromissione uho I trust is
sufficieutlie dead uith pouer to dischardg you. I am onlie sorrie to heir you haue such ueake thoghts of
me as if it uer onlie my cussings studie which persuaded me to demaud thus of you. I blisse God uho
heath endeud me uith so much iudgment as that neather he nor anie man els shall persuad me to doe
uhat I shuld not nor yet leaue undoen uhat I kuoue belongs to me to doe And if this my just desyer
shall not preuaill uith you, I uill yet take paines by such cours as may giu you mor satisfaction though it
should be to my greater expens, uhich I uill not think can be occasioned by on uho profest such loue to
the father, as to shoue the conterar to his sonne. So hopeing this shall searue to preuein all forder mis-
contrustiones betwix you and me I shall rest in confidenc of your performauc.
Ollmutz 4 of Julij 1653. your uery uilling seruant
Addressed on the back : — Joannes Jacobus Wedderburn.
" Honorabili Dno Alexandro Wedderburn de
Kengenie, amico meo jilurimum colendo [Sealed with the same seal as that on the former letter
tradentur. of 14 July 1651.]
Kengenie."
1 The writer of this letter writes ij for y throughout.