Clement Cor of Redwalls (1533-1608) was a Scottish merchant based in Edinburgh and St Andrews.
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Clement Cor of Redwalls (1533-1608) was a Scottish merchant based in Edinburgh and St Andrews.
Cor was the eldest son of Andrew Cor, a merchant in Edinburgh. [1] Cor became a burgess of Edinburgh in 1566 and served the burgh council as a Dean of Guild, and Bailie. [2] He acquired a property in Advocates Close in 1579 and his house, built or rebuilt around 1590, is a rare survival of an Edinburgh merchant's house of this date. [3] A painted renaissance ceiling was discovered in the house in 2010 and dated by dendrochronology to Cor's period of ownership. [4]
In September 1596, with the physician Gilbert Moncreiff and kirk minister Robert Bruce he interviewed a woman from Nokwalter in Perth, Christian Stewart, who was accused of causing the death of Patrick Ruthven by witchcraft. She confessed she had obtained a cloth from Isobel Stewart to bewitch Patrick Ruthven, and repeated this confession to the king and Sir George Home at Linlithgow Palace. She was found guilty of witchcraft and burnt on Edinburgh's Castlehill. [5]
Clement Cor moved to St Andrews before 1603, when he gave the Edinburgh house to his eldest daughter Margaret. This was an unusual move for an established merchant in the 16th-century. [6] He obtained a property called Redwalls in Airdrie, Fife, from his son-in-law, Robert Lumsden. Cor invested with Lumsden in an unsuccessful and much-criticised venture to settle a plantation on the Scottish island of Lewis. Many of the investors were from Fife and are known as the Gentleman Adventurers of Fife. [7]
Cor died of the plague at St Andrews on 2 March 1608. His tombstone survives in the Cathedral precincts. [8]
Clement Cor married Helen Bellenden. [9] Their children included:
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