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John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming

b. circa 1633, d. between April 1668 and 5 August 1668

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1670 Signature John 4th Earl

Birth

John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, was born circa 1633.

Parents

FatherColonel John ("the Soldier") Fleming, 3rd Earl of Wigtown, 8th Lord Fleming (b. circa 1608, d. February 1665)
MotherJane Drummond, eldest daughter of John 2nd Earl of Perth (b. 1616, d. 12 January 1663)

Family life

John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, and Ann Ker, second daughter of Harry, Lord Ker, son of Robert, first Earl of Roxburghe, entered into a marriage contract on 5 December 1660.1,2,3

Child with Ann Ker, second daughter of Harry, Lord Ker, son of Robert, first Earl of Roxburghe (b. 1630, d. November 1673)

DaughterJean Fleming, Countess of Panmure+ (b. circa 1661, d. April 1683)

Titles

John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, held the title of Earl of Wigtown in February 1665.

Working life

  • In 1657 John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, was occupied as graduating student at University of Glasgow in Glasgow.4
  • On 29 March 1661 John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, was occupied as as Lord Fleming, was named by Parliament a commissioner for the sheriffdoms of Lanark and Dumbarton for raising the annuity of £40,000 sterling granted to the King in Edinburgh.5
  • On 23 January 1667 John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, was occupied as as Earl of Wigtown, was named by the Convention of Estates a commissioner for the sheriffdoms of Lanark and Dumbarton for the offer of £72,000 monthly to the King in Edinburgh.6
  • In April 1668 John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, was occupied as commissioner of excise for the shire of Lanark.7

Property1,891011

John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, possessed had a charter on his own resignation, in terms of his contract of marriage, of the whole lands of the earldom of Wigtown under the Great Seal on 10 May 1662 in Wigtown.1,12,13,14,15 He possessed named in confirmation by John, Lord Fleming, of the disposition by James Dickson of Staine to John Cleghorn on 15 April 1663.16 He possessed lost his right to the teinds of South Herbertshire to William Stirling on 13 May 1663 in South Herbertshire.1718 He possessed succeeded his father in 1665.1,12 He possessed resigned the barony of Thankerton with the advowson of the church for new infestment on 13 February 1666 in Thankerton.19,20,21,22,23 He possessed ratified the 1663 sasine of John Smithe, merchant burgess of Ediburgh on 27 December 1666 in Half a tenement in Biggar.24 He possessed sold the barony of Thankerton to Sir William Purves of Woodhouselie on 13 February 1667 in Thankerton.19,2526 He possessed disponed these lands to John Thom in Wester Glaister on 20 September 1667 in Wester Glaister in the parish of Monkland.27 He possessed gave a charter for land at Biggar to James Carmichael on 29 February 1668.28

Death

John ("the Prosaic") Fleming, 4th Earl of Wigtown, 9th Lord Fleming, died between April 1668 and 5 August 1668. He had his estate probated on 5 August 1668 in Lands of the Earldom of Wigtown.29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37

Citations

  1. [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.
  2. [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 348.
  3. [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 915.
  4. [S124] Cosmo Innes, Editor, Records of the University of Glasgow: from its foundation till 1727 (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1854), vol iii, p 107; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/munimentaalmeuni01mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
  5. [S157] Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes, editors, The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: 12 vols in 13 (Edinburgh: Record Commission, between 1814 and 1875), vol vii, p 91-94; online image, Hathitrust, Hathitrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/ : viewed 3 November 2026.
  6. [S157] Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes, editors, The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: 12 vols in 13 (Edinburgh: Record Commission, between 1814 and 1875), vol vii, p 544; online image, Hathitrust, Hathitrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/ : viewed 3 November 2026.
  7. [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Act appointing new commissioners of excise in Lanarkshire," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, third series, vol iv, 1673-1676 (1911), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044032328007&seq=450 : viewed 25 August 2025), p 399.
  8. [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 733–737.
  9. [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 873.
  10. [S71] Scotland, National Records of Scotland, "Wills and Testaments 1513-1925," Scotland's People (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/: accessed 24 February 2025), CC 734, Archibald Fleming of Ferme, Commissary of Glasgow, 17 Dec 1664.
  11. [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.
  12. [S60] Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (London: Harrison, 1866), Fleming, Earl of Wigton, p 218-19; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ/page/n7/mode/2up?q=fleming : accessed 27 February 2025.
  13. [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 238, p 119-121; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 9 September 2026.
  14. [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 212–214.
  15. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 3 November 2026), SIG 5545, 10 May 1662, Signature of the lands of Spittell etc granted to John, Lord Fleming and Anna Ker, his wife.
  16. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 3 November 2026), GD18 16/2/5, 15 Apr 1663, Confirmation by John, Lord Fleming, of the disposition by James Dickson of Staine to John Cleghorn.
  17. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed), GD86/638, 4 Jul 1663, Memorandum and Heads of a Contract entered into between James, Earl of Callendar, and William Stirling of Herbertshire.
  18. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 11 September 2025), GD2 1963, 1664, 1687, Earl of Wigtown: division of property and account of estate income.
  19. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated (Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1864), vol i, p 479; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/upperwardoflanar02irvi/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 28 March 2025.
  20. [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 885, p 445-446; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 9 September 2026.
  21. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 11 September 2025), SIG 16591, 13 Feb 1666, Signature of the lands of Thankertoun etc granted to John, Earl of Wigtown.
  22. [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 215.
  23. [S157] Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes, editors, The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: 12 vols in 13 (Edinburgh: Record Commission, between 1814 and 1875), vol vii, p 607; online image, Hathitrust, Hathitrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/ : viewed 3 November 2026.
  24. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 15 September 2025), GD 3979, 27 [December] 1666, Ratification by John, Earl of Wigtoun.
  25. [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 604.
  26. [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 1094, p 516; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : viewed 9 September 2026.
  27. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 12 September 2025), CS23 P1/37, 1747, Production in process: Feu contract between John Earl of Wigtown.
  28. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: viewed 12 September 2025), CS23 F1/34, 1704, Production in process: Forsyth and Thriepland v Bailly and Muirhead.
  29. [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), 1668 0805, Dunbarton, 65, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  30. [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), 1668 0805, Haddington, 292, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  31. [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), 1668 0805, Lanark, 308, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  32. [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), 1668 0805, Peebles, 156, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  33. [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), 1668 0805, Perth, 775, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  34. [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), 1668 0805, Selkirk, 82, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  35. [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), 1668 0805, Stirling, 247, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  36. [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), 1668 0805, General, 5167, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown; online image, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc00grea/page/n5/mode/2up : accessed.
  37. [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 216–220.
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