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- David Hume (1558-1629) was a Scottish historian and political theorist. He was born at Godscroft, a farming hamlet 2 miles to the north of Abbey St. Bathans , in the Lammermuir Hills , Berwickshire .
A major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland, his work, De Unione Insulae Britannicae was published in London in 1605. It is a study in how to effect the closer political union of Scotland and England. With surprising foresight, he suggests a super-national parliament with regional assemblies.
Hume was a partisan panegyricist of the Douglas family. He was a grandson of Alison Douglas, herself a grand-daughter of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus . His chief patron was William Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus , later the 1st Marquess of Douglas.
Andrew Blackadder, the proprietor of the estate, married a daughter of the house of Johnston of Johnston, ancestor of the earls of Annandale, and had two sons, Robert and Patrick. Robert, the elder son, espoused Alison Douglas, fourth daughter of George, Master of Angus, and sister of Archibald, earl of Angus. He followed the standard of the Douglases at Flodden in 1513, and was slain with his father-in-law and two hundred gentlemen of the name of Douglas, on that disastrous field, leaving a widow and two daughters, Beatrix and Margaret, who, at the time, were mere children.
Assignation by Cuthbert, Earl of Glencairn, with consent of William Cunningham, knight, Master of Glencairn, his son and heir apparent, and of Alexander Cunningham, his son and heir apparent, and grandson of the Earl, to Alison Douglas, widow of David Hume of Wedderburne, and failing of her, to George Hume of Wedderburn, her son, and his heirs, of a letter of reversion by Andrew Blacater of that Ilk, dated at Fynlastoun 23rd May 1540; witnesses, Mr. James Cunningham, parson of Inchecallocht ; Sir Allan Knok, prebendar in Kilmawaris; Sir John Cowper, Sir Thomas Jacksoun and Sir Thomas Liddall, chaplains; John Hoppringill, Alexander Gardynayr, Allan Cochrane, Robert Symsoun, and Thomas Craig.
It is signed by the Earl and Master of Glencairn and their seals and that of the Master's son are all appended. There is also a Precept of Sasine following on the above assignation, dated, signed and sealed as above; and Letters of Gift by them to the said Alison Douglas and her heirs of the rents and duties of the lands of Hilton, extending to twenty-six husband lands and now occupied by herself and her tenants, for all the years they have been in the said Earl's hands by reason of nonentry; witnesses, William Cunningham of unynghamehead, Robert Cunningham, son of the Master of Glencairn, Sir John Cowper, chaplain, Mr. James Cunninghame, George Wallace, Barthilmo Wallace, Allan Cunningham, and Sir Lowk Kincaid, notary [Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report of the Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B.
London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Mackie & Co. LD., 1902. p. 36-37, no. 56].
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