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National Records of Scotland

Reference

GD137

Title

Papers of the Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn Family, Earls of Dundee

Dates

c.1166-1910

Access status

Open

Location

Off site

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TITLES TO LAND

With related papers, including titles to teinds, heritable securities and inventories of writs.

GENERAL

Barony and constabulary of Dundee and office of standard bearer, 1298-1906.
Earl of Dundee, Maitland of Halton, Graham of Claverhouse: GD137/344, 348, 352-5, 467, 577, 798, 893, 959, 3241, 3266, 3679-81, 3683, 3685, 3757, 3779, 3852, 3893, 3898, 3934, 3957, 3998, 4020, 4028, 4091, 4093, 4095-4104, 4128, 4133, 4136, 4146, 4200-1, 4213, 4220.

Lands in several counties, 16th-17th century-1699.
GD137/3959, 4118, 4196.

ANGUS

Barony of Dudhope, 1461-1742.
Earl of Dundee, Maitland of Halton, Graham of Claverhouse and others: GD137/14, 26, 346, 348, 352-5, 432, 560, 576, 588, 675, 677, 738, 810-2, 892, 900-2, 908, 911, 929, 954, 975, 1630, 1774, 2302-3, 2448, 3463, 3756, 3776, 3781-2, 3828, 3854, 3869, 3884, 3893, 3895, 3898, 3912-3, 3982, 3984, 4006, 4019, 4030, 4040-53, 4055A, 4057, 4059, 4064-72, 4078, 4080, 4082, 4145, 4155-7, 4176, 4202, 4221-2, 4234, 4240.

Barony of Wedderburn, including Easter Powrie and others, 1630-1813.
Ogilvy of that ilk, Durham of Pitkerro, MacPherson of Easter Powrie, Wedderburn of Wedderburn, Scrymgeour Wedderburn: GD137/81, 129, 144-6, 1869-77, 1937, 1940-1, 2001-33, 2037-9, 2044-66, 2072-9, 2175, 2223, 2260, 2327, 2450, 2453, 2923-9, 2931, 3027, 3037, 3179, 3231, 3316.

Barony of Ogilvy, including Glen of Ogilvy and Easter Powrie, c.1166-1681.
Gilbert son of Earl of Angus, Ogilvy of that ilk, Durham of Pitkerro, Graham of Claverhouse: GD137/319-43, 547, 572, 1574-5, 2001-3, 2219, 2223, 2923-9, 3908.

Dundee, 1368-1752.
GD137/3-26, 31A, 34, 38-41, 45-46, 49-54, 59-62, 74-79, 82, 86-90, 93, 107-8, 142, 157, 360, 363-425, 531-2, 546-51, 678, 687, 727, 737, 797, 802-8, 1617, 1623, 1769-73, 1775-81, 1786-1801, 1833, 1848-9, 1864, 1967-8, 2034, 2225, 2228, 2231-6, 2282-93, 2297-9, 2304-10, 2313-20, 2323-4, 2328-39, 2342-4, 2348-54, 2366-7, 2374, 2396-9, 2409, 2413, 2416, 2435-7, 2443, 2449, 2457, 2466, 2470, 2481-3, 2489-90, 2798, 2807, 2975-80, 2983-4, 2988-91, 3020, 3023, 3036, 3126, 3199-3201, 3219, 3222-3, 3229, 3233, 3237-8, 3270, 3451, 3455, 3459-60, 3465, 3468, 3470, 3685-7, 3689-90, 3695, 3697, 3701, 3706-9, 3712-6, 3719-22, 3725-8, 3734, 3736, 3742-5, 3747-9, 3753-4, 3758-79, 3785-3804, 3808-9, 3813, 3817-8, 3825, 3834-50, 3856, 3860-2, 3867-70, 3873, 3878, 3888-90, 3894, 3901-2, 3909-11, 3916-33, 3937-9, 3944-58, 3963-75, 3981, 3985-7, 4002, 4017-8, 4022-5, 4031, 4035, 4058, 4076, 4086-7, 4126, 4131, 4134, 4141, 4177.

Auchmithie, 1647-1674.
Guthrie of Auchmithie, Major William Scrymgeour, Wedderburn of Easter Powrie: GD137/880-2, 1604-6, 3045, 3227.

Balmashanner, Garth, Turfbeg and related lands, 1495-1698.
Cairncross of Balmashanner, Gray of Turfbeg: GD137/676, 2340, 2410-1, 2430-1, 2485, 2488, 3239.

Balruddery and Benvie, 1500-1679.
Earl of Dundee, Wedderburn of Blackness, Maitland of Halton: GD137/1A, 507, 691, 782-5, 794, 3855, 3883, 3895, 3899, 4055A, 4111, 4140-4, 4155-7.

Bullion or Catermillie, c.1296-1866.
Kinnaird of Inchture, Gray of Laurenston, Brisbane, Wedderburn of Wedderburn: GD137/433, 679-81, 759-60, 835, 1318-75, 2071, 2325, 2985, 3678, 3729, 3830-3, 3879-84, 3907, 3978-9, 3991, 3993, 4000-1, 4038-9, 4114.

Clepington, 1660-1735.
Earl of Dundee and others: GD137/434, 688, 809, 2994, 4073, 4079, 4081, 4083.

Craig, Rossie and Ulishaven, 1611-1684.
Carnegie of Craig, Earl of Dundee, Maitland of Halton, Scott of Rossie: GD137/935, 1610-16, 4008-9, 4063, 4074, 4119-22, 4132, 4139, 4150, 4173.

Craigie, Balunie, Gotterstone and related lands, 1441-1716.
Scrymgeour, Wedderburn, Graham of Claverhouse, Shairp of Houston, Kyd of Craigie and others: GD137/30, 117, 349-51, 358-9, 361, 438, 566-71, 873, 1556-85, 1649, 1805, 2239, 2321, 3202, 3265, 3996.

Glenboy, 1568-1659.
Kennedy of Coive, MacFarlane, Fothringham, Bower: GD137/853, 1382-93, 1403.

Gourdie, 1561-1810.
Miln, Dunmuir, Carmichael, Wedderburn of Wedderburn: GD137/7, 9, 12, 28-35, 72-73, 195-213, 256-94, 1243, 1782, 2062, 3625-39.

Grange of Barry, Barrymuir and related lands, 1567-1673.
Hunter, Kyd of Grange of Barry, Watson of Grange of Barry and others: GD137/1783-5, 1956, 2210-5, 2221, 2229, 2237, 2296, 2300-1, 2311, 2322, 2365, 2400-6, 2418, 2425-6, 2429, 2455, 3234, 3265.

Henderston, 1588-1670.
3935, 4060-2, 4115.

Kingennie and Carntown, 1443-1812.
Parker of Kingennie, Strachan, Guthrie of Kingennie, Wedderburn of Kingennie, Scrymgeour Wedderburn: GD137/1, 47, 55-57, 63, 725, 1806-24, 1879, 1916-17, 1938, 1944-2000, 2036, 2040-3, 2054, 2067-70, 2204-11, 2254-7, 2294-5, 2312, 2341, 2343, 2345, 2397, 2995-7, 3587, 3589-90.

Kirkton of Earl's Stradichty, Baldovan and related lands, 1425-1759.
Thomas Clark burgess of Dundee, Scrymgeour constable of Dundee, Scrymgeour of Kirkton, Nairn of Baldovan, Maitland of Halton, Wedderburn of Wedderburn, Tullideph of Balgay: GD137/91-2, 646, 685, 692, 726, 729-30, 733-5, 757-8, 771-6, 781, 796, 822, 862, 1028-31, 1238, 1267, 1882, 2486, 3312, 3691, 3739-41, 3750-2, 3755, 3829, 3841, 3858, 3863-6, 3877, 3892, 3899, 3903, 3949, 3968, 3976-7, 3994, 4024, 4027, 4160-2, 4166.

FIFE

Barony of Birkhill, including Corbie, Newton, Kilmany and others, 1579-1812.
Leslie of Newton, Dick, Carnegie, Alison and Scrymgeour of Birkhill, Scrymgeour Wedderburn and others: GD137/656, 663-70, 1744-67, 2161-9, 2240, 2261-4, 2278-9, 2375, 2390-1, 2469, 2474-8, 2552-3, 2559, 2561, 2564, 2566, 2572, 2574, 2582, 2612, 2659, 2697-8, 2706-7, 2732, 2734, 2737, 2743, 2760, 2762, 2765, 2770-8, 2781, 2796, 2891-2917, 2933-9, 2959-67, 2974, 3244, 3283, 3285-6, 3290, 3295-3300, 3304-5, 3309, 3311, 3316, 3508-3543.

Barony of Naughton, including Wormit, 1505-1771.
Hay of Naughton, Crichton of Naughton, Balfour of Balledmonth, Scrymgeour of Birkhill and others: GD137/356, 552, 2261-2, 2392, 2408, 2412, 2414-5, 2957, 3650-77.

Barony of Inverkeithing, 1324-1687.
Scrymgeour, Earl of Dundee, Maitland of Halton and others: GD137/346, 348, 927-8, 933, 1007, 3682, 3749A, 3760, 3194, 3917, 3947, 3970, 3999, 4049, 4055, 4123-4, 4152.

St Andrews, including Boarhills and lands belonging to the Priory of St Andrews, 1537-1745.
GD137/96, 537, 607, 627, 630-5, 1026, 1108, 2234, 2346-7, 2355-63, 2369-72, 2378-88, 2394, 2420, 2422-4, 2427-8, 2432-4, 2436, 2439-42, 2445-7, 2451, 2456, 2461-3, 2467-8, 2471-3, 2877-90, 2930, 3214-5, 3225.

Coultra, Newgrange, Oatfield and related lands, 1546-1806.
Forester, Oliphant, Wood of Largo and Lambieletham, Balfour of Grange, Bayne of Pitmossie, Halkerston of Rathillet, Kirk, Paton, Scrymgeour of Birkhill, Scrymgeour Wedderburn and others: GD137/158-162, 165-194, 214-54, 666-7, 739-51, 1621, 1708-11, 1717, 1730-1, 1734-6, 1741-3, 2242-4, 2268-77, 2280, 2459-60, 2464, 2480, 2857-76, 2982, 2986-7, 3507, 3544, 3584.

Craigfoodie, 1637-1702.
Falconer, Watson: GD137/120, 3483-94.

Ellenhill, 1646-1668.
Ramsay of Ellenhill, Falconer: GD137/3495-3505.

Wester Little Kinnear, 1260-1832.
Simon of Kinnear, Kinloch, Paterson of Overdunmure, Halkerston, Falconer, Scrymgeour Wedderburn: GD137/295-318, 2266-7.

PERTHSHIRE

Balledgarno, 1468-1567.
Lord Haliburton of Dirleton, Guthrie of Guthrie, Scrymgeour constable of Dundee: GD137/770, 787, 792-3, 2288, 2335, 3895, 3899.

Monorgan, 1710-1778.
Crawford of Monorgan: GD137/1586, 2836-56, 2981, 2992.

Collace, 1584.
Nairne of Sandford: GD137/2385.

ARGYLL

Barony of Glassary, 1427-1712.
Campbell of Lochawe, Baron MacCorquodale, Earl of Dundee, Scrymgeour of Glassary, MacAlister of Kirnan, MacKilmun of Fernoch and others: GD137/814, 3428-45, 3692-9, 3702-4, 3710-11, 3717, 3730-3, 3763, 3783-4, 3805-7, 3810-15, 3819-22, 3838, 3876, 3886, 3931, 3983, 4003-5, 4026, 4029, 4034, 4075, 4094, 4109-10, 4194-5, 4215-7.

OTHER COUNTIES AND BURGHS

Menstrie, Clackmannan, 1431-1448.
Scrymgeour constable of Dundee, Campbell of Lochawe: GD137/3702-7, 3717-8, 3730-2.

Sonahard, Aberdeenshire, 1493-1507.
Scrymgeour of Sonahard, Scrymgeour constable of Dundee: GD137/816-7, 3824.

Slaid and Garvald, East Lothian.
Hepburn of Beinston: GD137/3272.

Edinburgh, 1523, 1686.
GD137/530, 3506.

Lanark, 1685, 1693.
GD137/3278, 3284.

ESTATE PAPERS

RENTALS

General, 1673-1867.
Earl of Dundee, Maitland of Halton: GD137/461, 938, 1032, 4178-9.

Angus, 1574-1819.
Scrymgeour of Dudhope, Maitland of Halton, Wedderburn of Easter Powrie and Wedderburn: GD137/137, 435-7, 562, 915-6, 940, 1644, 1924, 2940-1, 3089, 3184, 3607, 3610, 3915, 3940-2, 4015.

Fife, 1673-1744.
Maitland of Halton, Alison of Birkhill, Scrymgeour of Birkhill: GD137/448, 2938, 3253.

Argyll, 1673-1696.
Maitland of Halton: GD137/449-50, 4193.

TACKS (and related papers)

Angus, 1577-1772.
Guthrie of Kingennie, Wedderburn of Kingennie and Wedderburn, and others: GD137/27, 39, 73, 207, 212, 872, 1314, 1402, 1830, 1847, 1878, 1891, 2218, 2230, 2373, 3026, 3172-4, 3995.

Fife, 1551-1790.
Various proprietors: GD137/163-4, 608, 1700, 2269, 2274, 2876, 3540.

Other counties, 1644, 1702.
GD137/876, 1650.

ACCOUNTS AND DISCHARGES (including discharges of cess, teinds and feu duties)

Angus, 1566-1818.
Wedderburn of Easter Powrie and Wedderburn, Scrymgeour of Kirkton and others: GD137/126-7, 143, 533, 640, 825-6, 936, 1245, 2358-9, 1272-3, 1285, 1290, 1298, 1395-1401, 1598, 1609, 1816, 1822, 1914, 2080, 2086, 2088, 2093, 2095, 2097-8, 2120-2, 2124-5, 2179, 2203, 2211, 2216, 2222, 2231, 3085-6, 3094, 3098, 3108, 3110-4, 3116, 3118-9, 3125, 3178, 3224, 3250, 3588, 3593, 3603-6, 3636.

Fife, 1631-1847.
Paterson, Falconer, Scrymgeour Wedderburn: GD137/544, 636, 638, 653-4, 3488, 3585.

VALUATIONS OF TEINDS

Angus, 1633-1824.
GD137/1566-8, 1862, 1943, 2831, 3221, 3240, 3586-3601, 3608-23.

Other counties, 1629-1794.
GD137/1033, 1602, 3647.

MISCELLANEOUS

Angus, 1418-1854.
Wedderburn of Kingennie and Wedderburn, Scrymgeour of Kirkton, Scrymgeour constable of Dundee, Scrymgeour Wedderburn and others: GD137/71, 460, 682, 765-7, 917, 920, 1398, 1818, 1844-6, 1860, 1943, 2047, 2053, 2115, 2119, 2834, 2921-2, 3104A, 3175-7, 3180, 3185, 3190, 3197, 3624, 3649, 4021.

Fife, 1505-1785.
Scrymgeour of Birkhill and others: GD137/245, 247, 250, 647, 1133, 3545-83, 3650.

Other counties, 1572-1642.
GD137/1851, 3197, 4036.

HOUSEHOLD PAPERS

Miscellaneous 1619-1820.
Wedderburn of Easter Powrie and Wedderburn, Scrymgeour of Kirkton, Maitland of Halton, Scrymgeour Wedderburn and others: GD137/136, 592, 657, 1145, 1162, 1276, 1923, 2089, 2101, 2179, 2921-2, 3090, 3096, 3099-3100, 3104-22, 4105, 4130, 4135, 4138.

OTHER LEGAL AND FINANCIAL PAPERS

FAMILY PROVISIONS AND INHERITANCE

Marriage contracts and certificates, c.1576-1870.
GD137/51, 83, 94, 99A, 118, 122, 534, 545, 573, 575, 590, 593, 595, 645, 651, 689-90, 692, 822-3, 1696, 1699, 1702, 1827, 1835, 1839, 1857, 1865, 1900, 1919, 1921, 2549, 2554, 2797, 2801, 2871, 3022-3, 3056, 3236, 3319, 3483, 3516, 1157.

Discharges of tocher and other papers relating to marriage contracts, c.1572-1794.
GD137/44, 48, 48A, 58, 65, 68, 578, 844, 1100, 1144, 1589, 1599, 1603, 1695, 1804, 1831, 1836, 1838, 1863, 1866, 1913, 2111-2, 2143, 2152, 2178, 3005, 3007, 3015, 3025, 3029-30, 3097, 3102-3, 3141, 3151, 3192, 3205, 3217, 3456-7.

Testaments, settlements, bonds of provision and related papers, 1580-1842.
GD137/75, 95, 116, 123-4, 135, 192, 579, 596, 606, 609, 648, 655, 661, 674, 831, 838, 885, 1034, 1138, 1141-2, 1152, 1593, 1607, 1852, 1854, 1892, 1910, 1935, 1942, 2133, 2144, 2534, 2578, 2620, 2634, 2643, 2652, 2739, 2769, 2865, 2870, 3088, 3183, 3226-7, 3246, 3256-8, 3306.

Miscellaneous executry, curatory and tutory papers, 1554-1811.
GD137/42, 61B, 64-67, 100, 475-9, 535, 538, 553-4, 603, 644, 828-30, 860-1, 865-71, 1101, 1139-40, 1152, 1252-3, 1587-8, 1590-1, 1686, 1693, 1826, 1838, 1840, 1880-1, 1883, 1890, 1897, 1925-36, 2100, 2104, 2108, 2117, 2158, 2421, 2423, 3009-14, 3017-19, 3021, 3043, 3059-60, 3063-4, 3066, 3068, 3073, 3075, 3082, 3091, 3101, 3103, 3127, 3133-4, 3146-9, 3153, 3159, 3161, 3163, 3166, 3183, 3204, 3206, 3209-13, 3217, 3251, 3426, 3449-50.

General retours, 1556-1903.
GD137/80, 125, 643, 649, 667, 731, 2035, 2265, 2486, 3317-8, 3320.

FINANCIAL PAPERS

Miscellaneous financial papers, including bonds, discharges, bills of exchange and legal accounts, 1549-1811.
GD137/41A, 69, 71A, 105B, 110, 134A, 138, 153, 468, 470, 480, 490, 542, 559, 563, 574, 602, 604, 611-18, 620, 628, 652, 740, 752-3, 755-6, 764, 824, 827, 833-59, 866, 874 877-8, 896, 898, 909, 934, 955, 991, 1099, 1107, 1129, 1236-1317, 1625-6, 1629, 1631, 1637, 1658, 1663-6 (Incorporated Tailors of the Canongate, 1723-1745; no. 1666 contains a brief history of the society), 1667, 1694, 1697, 1701, 1703-7, 1737-40, 1802-3, 1820-1, 1825, 1828-9, 1832, 1837, 1841-3, 1850-1, 1858-9, 1861, 1868, 1884-9, 1893-1915, 1918, 1939, 2081-4, 2090-2, 2096, 2099, 2102-6, 2109-10, 2113-4, 2123, 2136, 2138, 2153, 2159, 2217, 2220, 224, 2493-2796, 2802-6, 2809-13, 2818-24, 2827, 2829-30, 2832, 2835, 2836-56, 2921-2, 2998-3004, 3008, 3039-95, 3104C, 3108A, 3123-52, 3162-71, 3178C, 3181-2, 3189, 3195-6, 3198, 3203, 3208, 3216, 3220, 3232, 3247, 3261, 3263, 3274-82, 3287-9, 3292-5, 3302, 3446-7, 3462, 3466, 3471, 3473-5, 3477, 3961-2, 4007, 4060, 4077, 4117A, 4205-12.

JUDICIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS LEGAL PAPERS

Papers relating to process of Margaret Scrymgeour against Alexander Wedderburn of Kingennie, her tutor, and related actions, 1643-1677.
GD137/89, 105, 105A, 579-86, 683, 885-9, 912-4, 918, 944-53, 1034-97, 2180-2200, 3034-5.

Papers relating to royal gift to Charles Maitland of Halton, lord treasurer depute, as ultimus haeres to John, 1st Earl of Dundee, and related legal actions, 1670-1761.
GD137/438-66, 498-507, 515-29, 560, 587-8, 684, 694-722, 921-4, 927-31, 933, 935, 939-43, 954, 956-1008, 1012, 1623-4, 1630, 3273, 4010-2, 4112-28, 4132-4245.

Papers relating to legal disputes concerning Tay salmon fishings, 1762-1809.
GD137/3481-2, 3640-6.

Miscellaneous judicial and other legal papers, 1445-1906.
GD137/54, 59, 70, 98-9, 101-4, 109, 112-3, 119, 121, 128, 130-4, 139, 140A, 154, 469, 471-4, 481-97, 508-14, 539-41, 543, 555-6, 558, 561, 564-5, 594, 621-6, 629, 639 (assythment for slaughter, 1562), 641, 658-60, 662, 671-3, 686, 754, 761-3, 769, 856, 875, 879-84, 890-1, 893-5, 897, 899, 903-7, 919, 925-6, 932, 937, 982-4, 1009-24, 1147, 1291, 1303-4, 1595-6, 1597, 1600, 1618-19, 1622, 1628, 1632-6, 1638-43, 1645-8, 1651-62, 1668-92, 1698, 1712-29, 1732-3, 1737-8, 1768, 1844-6, 1853, 1873, 1895, 1920, 2087, 2094, 2107, 2116, 2119, 2134-5, 2137-40, 2160, 2171-2, 2177, 2202, 2205, 2226-7, 2238 (complaint about alleged breaking of James Kyd of Craigie's head with a stone, 1714), 2799, 2814-7, 2820, 2825-6, 2833, 2921-2, 3028, 3031-5, 3038, 3040, 3154-8, 3186-8, 3191, 3207, 3218-9, 3228, 3235, 3255, 3266 (abstract of Scrymgeour Wedderburn writs for standard-bearer case, 1906), 3267 (inventory of documents relating to Scrymgeours of Fardhill, Fordy, Redgothin and Balbeuchly), 3268-9 (index to documents in Viscounty of Dudhope case), 3290-1, 3310, 3322-3, 3448, 3452, 3454, 3461, 3472, 3648, 3724 (brieve of perambulation of lands of William Hay of Dalgetty, 1445), 3746 (notarial instrument incorporating a letter of James II to bailies of Dundee, 1456), 3872, 3889, 3904-5, 3912, 3918, 4056, 4106-8, 4197, 4203-4, 4246 (index-cards used in compiling inventories of documents for standard-bearer case, c.1903).

CORRESPONDENCE

Wedderburns of Kingennie, Easter Powrie and Wedderburn, 1651-1763.
Correspondence with John James Wedderburn in Moravia, 1651-3, about his property in Scotland: GD137/86B, 1855-6.
Letter from Anna Lobry, St Petersburg, 1740, about present received from the Empress Catherine's sister: 140.
Other letters: GD137/87A, 111, 128A, 141, 768, (?)1367, 1923, 1933, 2922/20, 35.

Dr Alexander Scrymgeour, professor at St Andrews, 1723-30.
Professorships at St Andrews: GD137/1102-6.
Legal and financial matters: GD137/238, 240-2, 249, 254, 1101, 1737-8, 3515, 3545.

David Scrymgeour of Birkhill, sheriff depute of Inverness, 1744-69.
GD137/3326-7. For letters relating to official business as sheriff see under LOCAL ADMINISTRATION.

Alexander Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn (formerly Scrimgeour of Birkhill) and his wife, Elizabeth Ferguson, 1768-1810.
Personal matters, including family history and careers of members of family and friends: GD137/151, 1130-7, 1143, 1146, 1149, 1151, 1589.
Business and legal matters, including parliamentary election of 1802, roads, marches and servitudes: GD137/152, 592A, 765-7, 1125, 1127-8, 2918-20, 2942-3, 2947, 2951-2, 2956, 3192, 3313-5, 3541-2, 3552, 3556, 3559-66, 3569-74, 3580-2, 3591, 3624-30, 3635, 3638-9, 3641-3.

Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn (formerly Scrimgeour) and his wife, Mary Turner Maitland, 1774-1832.
Personal matters, including Henry Scrimgeour's career and family history: GD137/1130, 1137, 1151, 1154-61, 3193.
Business matters: GD137/317-8, 659, 3609.

Miscellaneous, 1587-1910.
David Wedderburn, 1587 and n.d., about land in Dundee occupied by Christopher Traill: GD137/3928A, 4018.
Alexander Haliburton, Stockholm, 1644, about his misfortunes: GD137/86A.
M. Scrymgeour, Lady Drum, 1650, referring to 'this wicked covenant': GD137/883.
David Carnegie of Craig, 1661, warning Earl of Ethie that Lord Dundee knew the contents of their letters: GD137/1611.
J. Haldane, 1695, concerning Newton's philosophy: GD137/3245.
Earl of Chesterfield, 1753, about education of Lord Strathmore (copy): GD137/3264.
John Little, 1792, about ownership of banks and channel of Solway: GD137/3480.
Lyon Clerk, 1910, about Earl of Lauderdale's claim to title of standard bearer: GD137/3324.
Other correspondents: GD137/1138, 1374, 1714, 1733, 2579, 3168, 3170, 3476, 3601, 4016.

PAPERS RELATING TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Letter from English privy council to William Asheby, ambassador in Scotland, about Jesuit conspiracy, 1589.
GD137/1601.

MILITARY PAPERS

Precept for payment of expenses to James Scrymgeour, constable of Dundee, for going to England with the army as king's standard bearer, 1528.
GD137/3859.

Papers relating to the garrison of Montrose, 1640, and John Scrymgeour of Kirkton's military service, 1640-5.
GD137/2126-32.

PAPERS RELATING TO LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

Minutes of Convention of Royal Burghs, 1710.
GD137/3249.

Papers relating to burgh and constabulary of Dundee, 1328-1776.
GD137/20, 43 (minute, 1582, and royal letter, 1604, concerning office of town clerk of Dundee), 589, 1662, 1867, 2922/31, 3016, 3024, 3160, 3230, 3241, 3683 (precept by Robert I for inquest concerning yair of Dundee, 1328), 3700 (grant of small customs of Dundee, 1430), 3816 (letters of reversion to court and court silver of Dundee, 1494), 3874, 3980, 3989-90, 3992, 4013, (observations on differences between Viscount Dudhope and town of Dundee, 1676), 4158.

Papers relating to office of sheriff depute of Inverness, 1748-72.
Official papers of David Scrymgeour of Birkhill, including correspondence about suspected rebels, evidence in Appin murder case, prohibition of Highland dress, recruiting, impressment, and elections in Ross-shire and Nairn burgh: GD137/1109, 1113-6, 1119-23, 1125-8, 2170, 3328-3424, 3427.

Burgess tickets, 1627-1773.
GD137/619, 2326, 2968-73, 3262.

Papers relating to roads and bridges, 1776-1862.
Streets of Dundee, 1776: GD137/2922/31.
Road by Bessy Brae to Bullion, 1778: GD137/2922/44.
Road from Dundee to Auchterhouse at Moor of Liff; bridge at Dronlaw, 1779-81: GD137/2942-50.
Roads from Dundee by Gourdie to Fowlis; Dundee by Benvie, Flockstone's Drone and Balruddery, 1785-1788: GD137/3631-4.
Road from Perth turnpike to Kingoody quarry, 1862: GD137/1374A.

PAPERS RELATING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS (also poor relief, schools and universities)

Papers relating to presentations to benefices, collations and resignations, 1486-1772.
Subjects include chaplainries in Dundee: GD137/413, 597-601, 605, 2353, 2371 (instrument of institution of abbot of Balmerino, 1574), GD137/2922/20, 3199, 3271, 3793-6, 3811, 3819, 3822-3, 3831, 3849, 3857, 3885, 3887, 3897, 3900, 3906.

Papers relating to rights of patronage, 1452-1790.
GD137/3602, 3736-7, 3749, 3770-2, 3792-8, 3804, 3992.

Miscellaneous ecclesiastical papers, 1528-1723.
Notarial instrument on appeal against excommunication, 1528: GD137/728.
Minute of Dundee kirk session of gift of silver baptismal basin, 1646: GD137/85.
Contract for repair of church of Kirriemuir, 1723: GD137/2828.

Papers relating to poor relief, 1670-1687.
Hospital of Dundee, 1670: GD137/3041-2.
Poor of Murroes parish, 1684, 1687: GD137/3065, 3072.
Orphans of Dundee, 1686: GD137/3071.

Papers relating to schools, 1770-7.
School and schoolhouse of Monifieth, 1770: GD137/2922/15.
School and schoolhouse of Liff, 1777: GD137/2922/35.

Papers relating to St Andrews University, 1661-1727.
Subjects include professorships, fees and disputes over episcopacy: GD137/637, 1025, 1027, 1098, 1102-6, 2141-2, 2145-51, 2154-7, 2160, 2808, 3243, 3301.

COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS

Miscellaneous, 1495-1759.
Declaration by merchants of Brittany concerning goods consigned in a ship of Bruges, 1495: GD137/3820.
Decree of court of Conservators of the Scottish Nation at Campvere, 1618: GD137/3206.
Contract for shipping goods to France in the Blissing of Burntisland, 1680: GD137/107B.
Sale of share in the James of Dundee, 1690: GD137/3084.
Letter ordering a shipload of wine, soap and candles, 1723: GD137/3476
Memorial on the trade of Newburgh, 1759: GD137/1676.

ROYAL AND OTHER COMMISSIONS, REMISSIONS AND LICENCES

Miscellaneous, 1428-1764.
GD137/97, 347, 536, 557, 637, 732 (remission to John Scrymgeour of Balledgarno for slaughter, 1556), GD137/779, 1951, 2421, 2520, 3260, 3301 (commission to Mr Alexander Scrymgeour to be professor of divinity at New College St Andrews, 1713), GD137/3328, 3401, 3667, 3693-4 and 3698 (precepts summoning Duncan Campbell of Lochawe and the baron Mactorquhedale, 1427-1430), GD137/4033, 4084-5, 4120, 4198-9, 4244 (gift to James Earl of Lauderdale of hereditary office of banner bearer, 1761).

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

Illuminated liturgical fragment, n.d. (bound round a rental of 1580): GD137/3915.
Printed list of members of Scottish parliaments (1469-1661) 1705: GD137/3425.
Diary of James Scrymgeour of Kirkton, 1670-1709: GD137/2179.
Genealogical and heraldic papers, 1673-1905: GD137/155-7, 591, 642, 1153, 3321.
Diploma conferring degree of Doctor of Divinity on Mr Alexander Scrymgeour, 1713: GD137/2157.
Latin ode by James Major, 1713: GD137/3248.
Latin scholastic exercise with illuminated initial letter, n.d.: GD137/3242.
Death notices from newspapers, 1792, 1796: GD137/592C, 1148.
Inventory of Scrymgeour Wedderburn papers, and material used in compiling it, n.d.: GD137/3325, 4247.

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Fonds

Admin history

The papers described in this inventory relate to the family of Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn, now earls of Dundee, and their forebears, the Scrymgeours, constables of Dundee, and the Wedderburns of Easter Powrie. The hereditary office of constable of Dundee is known to have been held by the Scrymgeour family since 1298, and that of standard-bearer of Scotland since 1324, although tradition attributes the original grant of the latter office to the reign of Alexander I. In 1641 John Scrymgeour, constable of Dundee, was created Viscount Dudhope, and at the restoration the 3rd Viscount Dudhope was created Earl of Dundee. The earl left no issue, and on his death in 1668 his estates and heritable offices were declared to have fallen to the crown as ultimus haeres and were granted to Charles Maitland, Lord Halton (afterwards treasurer-depute and 3rd Earl of Lauderdale) despite the strong claim of John Scrymgeour of Kirkton to be heir of entail. As the result of a political scandal Lauderdale was forced in 1684 to give up the estate of Dudhope and constabulary of Dundee in favour of John Graham of Claverhouse, but he retained his gift of the office of standard-bearer. The validity of this gift was, however, disputed and a long legal case between the 13th Earl of Lauderdale and Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn, descendant of the Scrymgeours of Kirkton, finally decided the issue in 1910 in favour of the Scrymgeour Wedderburn claim. The Wedderburns, successively of Kingennie, Easter Powrie and Wedderburn, were descended from the earliest hereditary Wedderburn town clerks of Dundee, who held this office from 1557. On the death of Grizell Wedderburn of Wedderburn in 1778 the direct line came to an end and the family estates passed to her nearest heir in the male line, Alexander Scrymgeour of Birkhill, who on his succession assumed the name of Wedderburn. Alexander Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn and Birkhill, was the son of David Wedderburn of Birkhill, sheriff-depute of Inverness (1748-1768), the grandson of Dr Alexander Scrymgeour, professor at St Andrews (1693-c.1735), and the great-grandson and heir of that John Scrymgeour of Kirkton who had claimed to succeed the Earl of Dundee. In 1952 and 1953 Henry James Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn was successful in his claims to the peerages of Dudhope and Dundee respectively.

Arrangement

The present arrangement of this collection has gradually evolved since the middle of the nineteenth century and is the work of several hands. The earliest of these was John Riddell, a peerage lawyer, who examined the papers in 1846 seeking evidence in support of a possible claim to the peerages of Dudhope and Dundee, and was responsible for the arrangement and cataloguing of what were then described as boxes II and III (GD137/158-529 of the present list). Between 1892 and 1898 the papers were re-examined by the Rev Walter MacLeod of Edinburgh, an experienced record-searcher, and Alexander Wedderburn, author of 'The Wedderburn Book' (two volumes, 1898)', for information on Wedderburn family history. At this stage what were judged to be the principal Wedderburn papers were grouped together and catalogued as box I, bundles 1 and 2 (presently GD137/1-157). Other papers considered to be of little or no significance to Wedderburn family history were also catalogued at this time and placed in boxes IV to IX (presently GD137/530-2994). Shortly after the preparation of 'The Wedderburn Book'' was completed further papers were discovered and catalogued as box X (presently GD137/2995-3265). In recent years a number of miscellaneous papers not previously catalogued, and the documents transferred from the Lauderdale and Poltalloch muniments have been added at the end of the collection.

This cumulative process, in the course of which large numbers of papers were grouped together and catalogued for specific legal and historical purposes, has resulted in many related documents becoming scattered throughout the collection, while there are wide variations in the style and information content of entries in the inventory. A descriptive contents list has therefore been provided, in which entries are grouped according to the purpose and subject matter of the documents, and listed by their individual inventory number. The arrangement adopted for the contents list closely follows that set out in the introduction to the first volume of the National Archives of Scotland published 'List of Gifts and Deposits', but subheadings have been introduced where appropriate to suit the needs of this collection. To avoid excessively long lists of reference numbers under each heading, covering numbers are sometimes given which encompass occasional documents not belonging to that particular grouping. Conversely, in a few cases where there was doubt about the most appropriate heading under which to list a document, it appears in more than one category. Where an individual document within a group seemed of special interest a short description has been added in round brackets after the reference number. A key has also been provided so that references to the former box and bundle numbers of the documents can be easily correlated with the present inventory numbers.

Finding aids

A key for the conversion of the old reference numbers of boxes and bundles (as cited in the published 'Wedderburn Book' and elsewhere) to the new reference numbers is documented in both the paper catalogue for the collection held in the Historical Search Room at the National Records of Scotland and in the copy of the 'Wedderburn Book' held in the library of the National Records of Scotland.

Publication note

Further details of the history of the family of Scrymgeour, Earl of Dundee, are to be found in 'The Scots Peerage', and of the various branches of the Wedderburn family in Alexander Wedderburn, 'The Wedderburn Book' (two volumes, 1898).
A number of the documents relating to lands in Glassary are printed in 'Highland Papers', vol. ii (Scottish History Society, 1916); and an inventory of Wedderburn papers contained in the Scrymgeour Wedderburn collection (not exhaustive) was published in the second volume of 'The Wedderburn Book.'

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Language

English

Archival history

The original and biggest deposit of this collection in the National Archives of Scotland was made in 1951 from the office of Messrs D M Gibb and Company, Edinburgh, formerly agents for the present Earl of Dundee. In 1954 a further deposit was received from the office of Messrs Simpson and Marwick W S., Edinburgh, who had acted in the peerage claims. This deposit was of papers removed from Dudhope Castle in 1905 in the course of the standard-bearer case and now returned by the dowager Countess of Lauderdale. In the same year, a small number of papers already deposited in the National Archives of Scotland were transferred from the muniments of Malcolm of Poltalloch to the Scrymgeour Wedderburn collection. These were titles to the farms of Glasvaar and part of Knockalva in Glassary, Argyll, which had once belonged to Scrymgeours, constables of Dundee, and had been re-acquired by the Earl of Dundee.

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