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Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher

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Working life

• On 9 March 1629 Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher, was occupied as student at University of Glasgow in Glasgow.¹
• He served in the military as was sent to King Charles I by the Scottish Army with a proposal of conditions for a pacification, which led to the treaty of Ripon in September 1640.^2,3
• In August 1648 Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher, was occupied as Emissary for the Queen and the Prince of Wales to Mr Webster of Amsterdam to take delivery of 10,000 pistols and ammunition and transport them to Scotland in Amsterdam.⁴
• Circa 1649 Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher, was occupied as Gentleman Usher to King Charles I.^2,3
• After 1649 Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher, was occupied as Chamberlain of the Household to King Charles II in Scotland.^2,5
• In January 1651 Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher, was occupied as confirmed by King Charles II, at the court at Perth, in the office of Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary, and made Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in Perth.⁶
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• On 28 February 1661 Sir William Fleming, His Majesty's Gentleman Usher, was occupied as was appointed as one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer in Whitehall.⁸

Property^2,9,10

Death

Citations

1. [S124] Cosmo Innes, Editor, Records of the University of Glasgow: from its foundation till 1727 (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1854), vol iii, p 81; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/munimentaalmeuni01mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
2. [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
3. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 327; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
4. [S121] A McDonald and others, Editors, Miscellany of the Maitland Club: consisting of Original Papers and Other Documents illustrative of the History and Literature of Scotland (Edinburgh: The Maitland Club, 1840), vol ii, p 460; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/miscellanyedbya00clubgoog/page/n6/mode/2up : viewed 16 May 2025; Instructions from Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales to Sir William Fleming 13 Jun 1648.
5. [S21] George Crawford, The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical account of the Nobility of that Kingdom (Edinburgh: George Stewart, 1716), p 491-499, Fleming, Earl of Wigtown.
6. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 3 November 2026), GD4 216/26, Jan 1651, Letters of King Charles II confirming to Sir William Flemyng knight, the office of Gentleman Usher of Privy Chamber in Ordinary, and constituting him….
7. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 41, p 14; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 10 September 2026.
8. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 42, p 14-15; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 10 September 2026.
9. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed), GD4 163068, 13 Apr 1661, Extract bond of corroboration by John, Earl of Wigtoun, and John, Lord Fleming, to Sir William Fleming.
10. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 710.
11. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charters 309, 310, 312.
12. [S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar District, Archeological, Historical and Biographical, second edition (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1867), p 558.
13. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 221.
14. [S152] Record Commission of Great Britain, Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum: Quae in publicis archivis Scotiae adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio (London: HM King George III, 1811), 1678 0302, General, 6066, Sir William Fleming third son of John Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
15. [S104] John Stuart, Editor, Registrum de Panmure: compiled by Harry Maule of Kelly in 1733 (Edinburgh: 1874), vol i, p xlvii; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/registrumdepanm00ofgoog/page/n9/mode/2up : viewed 18 April 2025.
16. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 15 September 2025), GD 247/491, 1679, Copy of discharge by Lady Jean Fleming, Countess of Panmure.
17. [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 871.