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s. of James Wemyss, fiar of Bogie, and Margaret Kininmonth. m. (1) bef. Sept. 1635, Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Ayton of that ilk; (2) 20 Aug. 1675, Margaret, da. of Sir Archibald Johnston* of Wariston. suc. grandfa. 1640. d. bef. Oct. 1680.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 727-8; Reg. PC Scot. 1678-80, p. 562.
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Scottish: commr. loan and tax, 1643. Member, cttee. of war, 1643 – 44, 1648, 1651. Commr. Fife, convention of estates, 1644; Scottish Parl. 1645 – 47, 1669 – 74; gen. assembly, 1645; losses of the kingdom, 1646; money, 1646.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 727. PC, 9 Sept.1646–?1651.Reg. PC Scot. 1544–1660, p. 58. Treas. and commry.-gen. of army, 16 Feb. 1647–27 Sept. 1648.Govt. of Scot. under the Covenanters, 1637–51 ed. D. Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1982), 198. Member, cttee. estates, 1647–8, 1651. Commr. excise, 1648, ?1661 – d.; plantation of kirks, 1648;Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 727; Reg. PC Scot. 1678–80, p. 562. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Judge, civil and criminal cases, Mar. 1660.J. Nicoll, Diary of Public Transactions (Edinburgh, 1836), 278. Commr. supply, 1661, 1667.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 728.

Military: col. of ft. Fife and Kinross 1650–1.Young, Parliaments of Scot. ii. 727.

Local: commr. assessment, Fife 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 839; A. and O. J.p. Fife and Kinross 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 312.

Parlimentarian
WEMYSS, Sir John (d. 1680), of Bogie, Fife.
: Fife.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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WEMYSS, Sir John (d. 1680), of Bogie, Fife.

Will
Estates
lands of Wester Bogie and New Smetoun, and properties in burghs of Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline, Fife, settled on Wemyss and his wife, 25 July 1636.Reg. Gt. Seal Scot. 1634-51, p. 207. Inherited remainder of estates on death of his grandfa. in 1640. Enjoyed unspecified ‘rests’ over taxes (probably in Fife), which were overturned by Charles II in March 1674.HMC Portland, x. 153.
Oxford 1644
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