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Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming

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1518 John 2nd Lord

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• In March 1625 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as student at University of Glasgow in Glasgow.⁴
• On 1 February 1634 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as principal janitor and keeper of the king's house and chamber.⁵
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• On 13 July 1641 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as Procuratory for presenting Keir's supplication to Parliament.⁷
• On 24 July 1644 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as was appointed to the committee for war representing Lanarkshire in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Lanarkshire - In 1644, the Estates having learned that the enemies of the kingdom had invaded the same in a hostile manner, and possessed themselves of the town of Dumfries, appointed a committee of their number, of whom Lord Fleming was one, to go along with the forces and assist the Earl of Callender, who was entrusted with the chief command (Act Pari, VI., 92). About the same time Lord Fleming was appointed one of the Committee of War for Lanarkshire (Ibid., 132).^8,9
• He served in the military as was present at the Battle of Philiphaugh during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms on 13 September 1645 at near Selkirk in Philiphaugh. The Royalist army of the Marquis of Montrose was destroyed by the Covenanter army of Sir David Leslie, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates. Wigtown escaped with his leader s to the Highlands, where he lay concealed for some time.
  
  Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. The origins of the movement lay in disputes with James VI and his son Charles I over church structure and doctrine. In 1638, thousands of Scots signed the National Covenant, pledging to resist changes imposed by Charles on the kirk; following victory in the 1639 and 1640 Bishops' Wars, the Covenanters took control of Scotland, and the 1643 Solemn League and Covenant brought them into the First English Civil War on the side of parliament.
  
  Lanarkshire -0 he joined the forces under Montrose, after their victory at Kilsyth. He was present at Philiphaugh, and accompanied his commander in his retreat into AtholL There, however, Montrose soon found that Lord Fleming and the other lowland gentlemen who still adhered to him would not be able to endure the toil of his winter marches, and in consequence "he allowed them to let their friends capitulate for their offcoming" ^10,3,11,12
• On 21 November 1646 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as was appointed to the committee for war for Dunbartonshire in Edinburgh.¹³
• In 1661 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as a commissioner for "Tread, Navigation, and Manufectories ' (Act Parl, VII, 9.)³
• On 13 February 1661 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as was appointed by Charles II as a Lord of the Secret Council in Whitehall.¹⁴
• On 24 June 1661 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as recompensed 20,000 merks by the King and Parliament for resigning the office of Usher which had been a subject of long contention between him and the family of Cockburn of Langtown.¹⁰
• On 1 October 1661 Colonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming, was occupied as took his oaths of allegiance and on admittance as a Privy Councillor in Edinburgh.¹⁵

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1. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 202
2. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 15 September 2025; GD160/158/1, 4. 1633 August 10, Sept. 11, Antenuptial contract of marriage between Lady Jean Drummond, eldest daughter of John, earl of Perth, and John, lord Fleming
3. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, vol i, p 32
4. [S124] Cosmo Innes, Records of the University of Glasgow, vol iii, p 78
5. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 22, p 9-10
6. [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Appointment of commissioners to enforce subscription to the Confession of 1580 and the Bond of 1589," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol vii, 1638-1643 (1906), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433071384931&seq=152 : viewed 11 Aug 2025), p 76-77.
7. [S121] A McDonald and others, Miscellany of the Maitland Club, vol ii, p 426
8. [S68] KM Brown and others, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, 1644/6/225
9. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, vol i, p 327
10. [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
11. [S60] Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Fleming, Earl of Wigton, p 218-19
12. [S21] George Crawford, The Peerage of Scotland, p 491-499, Fleming, Earl of Wigtown
13. [S68] KM Brown and others, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, 1646/11/33
14. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 41, p 14
15. [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Earls of Wigtown and Kelliue: admitted to the Council," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, third series, vol i, 1661-1664 (1908), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112103825651&seq=125 : viewed 24 Aug 2025), p 53.
16. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol vii, 1609-1620, ch 1634, p 592
17. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 197
18. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 777
19. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charters 204-206
20. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 203
21. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 201
22. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 182, p 75
23. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 253, p 104
24. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., GD45/16/3068, 13 Apr 1661, Extract bond of corroboration by John, Earl of Wigtoun, and John, Lord Fleming, to Sir William Fleming
25. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 770, p 274-275
26. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 802, p 287-289
27. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown, Charter 207
28. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 11 September 2025; GD220/1/B/8/3/7 and GD220/1/B/8/3/4 and GD220/1/B/8/3/5, 25 Mar 1647, Receipt by Sir William Gray to the Earl of Wigtown for £3042 6s
29. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 11 September 2025; GD220/1/B/8/3/12, 10 Jul 1661, Assignation by the Earl of Wigtown in favour of James, Marquess of Montrose
30. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol ix, 1634-1651, ch 1833, p 685
31. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 15 September 2025; GD100/226, 10 Jun 1650, Precept of clare constat in favour of John, now Earl of Wigtoun [Wigtown], of the lands of Smailhope in the sheriffdom of Pebles
32. [S81] Joseph Irving, The History of Dumbartonshire, p 495
33. [S121] A McDonald and others, Miscellany of the Maitland Club, vol ii, p 490
34. [S132] Thomas Watson, Kirkintilloch, p 37
35. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 15 September 2025; GD122/2/781, 24 Jun 1653, Decret obtained by the Earl of Wigtoun at the instance of William Levingstounne
36. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., GD45/16/25, 15 Jul 1661, Instrument of resignation by John, Earl of Wigtoun, of the barony of Biggar and more
37. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 238, p 119-121
38. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 11 September 2025; GD24/1/963, 1664, 1687, Earl of Wigtown: division of property and account of estate income