temporary title of "dominus" to his position in the church. He is first named
15 Aug. 1522, when he is a witness (D.P.B. 7d), and next, Feb. 6, 28, when "Sir
Thomas, chaplain," is again as a witness, and also resigns two North Murraygait
properties to William Barrie (ib. 14), and later on, 7 Nov. 1528, an annual rent
(D.P.B. 30 a). Sir Thomas is witness to two charters 14, 18 Jan. 1528 (G.S.R. 15, 24),
and is also witness 2 Feb. 1528, on which occasion he is not called "Dominus (D.P.B.
24 b), 17 April, 22 June 1531 (ib. 36 b, 38), and 3 June 1534 (ib. 51 c). He is also
named among certain chaplains and notaries who witness a charter 22 Oct. 1535
(G S.R. 23), and is mentioned in a writ of 2 Sept. 1539 transumed many years after
(D.B.R. 382). Some years then elapse, owing to the gap in the Dundee Records,
before he is named again. He is a witness to the charter by Mr. Robert
Wedderburn, the Vicar of Dundee, 10 March 1551 (D.C. 23),1 and 12 Jan. 1554 is
mentioned as claiming a small annual-rent (D.B.R. 48). He was chaplain to the
Baxtar's Craft of Dundee and is often so named 1555-58 (D.T.G. 4 a). Thomas
Wedderburn (not designed) is a witness 5 Nov. 1555 (D.P.B. 65 a), and Schir Thomas
Wedderburn, chaplain, witnesses a discharge 21 Jan. 1556 (D.B.R. 63). His
chaplainry of Our Lady in Cowgait is mentioned 10 Feb. 1557 (ib. 73 a), and that
of S. Michael 16 March 1558, when he has delivered to him a letter presenting
George Rollock to the benefice of S. Mary's in S. Clement's, Dundee (D.C. 26).
There is a curious entry, 8 April 1562, when Thomas Wedderburn sumtyme Sir
Thomas gets a decree for an annual-rent due to him in respect of his chaplainry
(D.B.R. 113 a). A decree for housemaills is made in favour of Thomas Wedderburn
21 Dec. 1562 (ib. 124 c), and 22 Feb. 1563 James Scrymgeour of Balbeuchlie is
security that Thomas Wedderburn will stand firm and stable in all that Helen
Wedderburn does in his name (ib. 128). On 8 March 1563 there is a decree for an
annual-rent in favour of Thomas Wedderburn chaplain of Our Lady in Cowgait
(ib. 130 a), and 27 Oct., 10 Nov. in the same year, Thomas Wedderburn, as chaplain
of the Magdalene altar, and Mark Barrie as its patron, bring an action v. James
Anderson (b. 133). In 1564 (Nov. 6) he is again called Sir Thomas, on an occasion
when he constitutes Edward Wedderburn his factor to pursue all claims re his
benefices of S. Michael's and Our Lady (ib. 138). He is no doubt the Thomas
Wedderburn "
chaplain of S. John in Sklaitt Hewchis," who gets a decree of
poynding 30 March 1565 (b. 144). He died between then and 19 March 1568,
when there is a decree that James and Robert Wedderburn have no title to the
annual-rents of umquhill Sir Thomas Wedderburn, who disponed them to Edward
Wedderburn (D.B.R. 159).
Thomas Wedderburn. There are three references to persons of this name, of which two (a c) are certainly errors. Thus (a) 1528 and 1546 a Thomas, son of James Wedderburn, and himself the father of a James Wedderburn is named in some notes made by J.W. from the Scrymgeour-Wedderburn papers (see J.W. 103 n). Here Thomas is in each case an error for Robert. (b) A Thomas Wedderburn is named in the Register of the Privy Council, 1 Sept. 1579 (R.P.C. 11), but there is no other reference to any such person. See ante, p. 9, n. 1. (c) Thomas Wedderburn skipper, father of John and James Wedderburn is named 27 June 1608 (D.B.R. 361). Here again there is no other reference to any such person, and the name Thomas is clearly an error for John Wedderburn, skipper, (father of Dr. John Wedderburn and James, Bishop of Dunblane), who, though not designed "umquhill" in this entry, died in 1604.
1 I have omitted his name in my note of this document in Vol. ii.
2 See ante, p. 84 s. Elis Wedderburn.