 Another manuscript history of the family brings the record close to the death of William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, in 1611, and is ascribed to that earl.The tenth earl's son, William Douglas, is said to have threatened its publication in order that Hume's work might be superseded, due to subjective and accuracy in some of his writings.Hume's "History of the House of Wedderburn, written by a Son of the Family, in the year 1611," was a Latin eulogy, "Davidis Humii de Familia Humia Wedderburnensi Liber".