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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

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.2
  • 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.3

Property14

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.1,5,6 He possessed lost his right to the teinds of South Herbertshire to William Stirling on 13 May 1663 in South Herbertshire.78 He possessed succeeded his father in 1665.1,5 He possessed resigned the barony of Thankerton with the advowson of the church for new infestment on 13 February 1666 in Thankerton.9,10,11 He possessed ratified the 1663 sasine of John Smithe, merchant burgess of Ediburgh on 27 December 1666 in Half a tenement in Biggar.12 He possessed sold the barony of Thankerton to Sir William Purves of Woodhouselie on 13 February 1667 in Thankerton.9,1314 He possessed disponed these lands to John Thom in Wester Glaister on 20 September 1667 in Wester Glaister in the parish of Monkland.15 He possessed gave a charter for land at Biggar to James Carmichael on 29 February 1668.16

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 Lenzie and Kirkintilloch. WILLIAM EARL OF WIGTOUN, Lord Fleyming and Cumbernauld, heir male of John Earl of Wigtoun, Lord Flemyng and Cumbernauld, his brother,—in the lands underwritten erected into a county, lordship, and barony, viz. the lands and barony of Leinzie, with the town and burgh of Kirkintil:—A. E. 100l. 13s. 4d. N. E. 300l.—5 pounds of the lands of Cumbernauld with the dominical lands;—tenths of the garbales and other tithes and emoluments of the parish church of Lenzie, united with other lands in Peebles, Selkirk, Perth, and Haddington in the barony of Cumbernauld:—A. E. 16l. N. E. 68l.—the burghs of the barony of Kirkintil and Biggar;—advocation of the churches of Leinzie:—A. E. 1s. N. E. 3s.—all erected in the earldom of Wigton.—(See Lanark, Stirling, Peebles, Selkirk, Perth, Haddington.)17

Citations

  1. [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558
  2. [S124] Cosmo Innes, Records of the University of Glasgow, vol iii, p 107
  3. [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 Aug 2025), p 399.
  4. [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
  5. [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
  6. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 238, p 119-121
  7. [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
  8. [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
  9. [S83] George Vere Irving, The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, vol i, p 479
  10. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 885, p 445-446
  11. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 11 September 2025; SIG1/165/91, 13 Feb 1666, Signature of the lands of Thankertoun etc granted to John, Earl of Wigtown
  12. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 15 September 2025; GD1/397/9, 27 [December] 1666, Ratification by John, Earl of Wigtoun
  13. [S5] William Hunter, Biggar and the House of Fleming, p 604
  14. [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol xi, 1660-1668, ch 1094, p 516
  15. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 12 September 2025; CS230/P/1/37, 1747, Production in process: Feu contract between John Earl of Wigtown
  16. [S58] Edinburgh, National Records of Scotland, "Online Catalogue," National Records of Scotland (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue: accessed ), ., viewed; 12 September 2025; CS239/F/1/34, 1704, Production in process: Forsyth and Thriepland v Bailly and Muirhead
  17. [S152] Record Commission of Great Britain, Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum, Dunbarton, 65, Aug 5 1668, John Fleming Earl of Wigtown
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