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Sir Robert Fleming, Standard bearer to his Majesty

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Working life

• In 1649 Sir Robert Fleming, Standard bearer to his Majesty, was occupied as was a standard bearer at the funeral of King Charles I.¹
• He served in the military as cornet of His Majesty's person or lifeguard of Horse under command of Captain the Earl of Newburgh on 31 July 1662.¹
• He served in the military as was commissioned by Charles II as cornet of the king's lifeguard of horse under the Earl of Newburgh on 31 July 1662.²
• He served in the military as was ordered by the Privy Council to march two squadrons of His Majesty's Life Guards to Kilmarnock and Paisley on 13 October 1663.^3,4

Property⁵

Death

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 314.
3. [S25] William M Metcalfe, A History of the County of Renfrew: from the Earliest Times (Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1905), p 292.
4. [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Two squadrons," 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=519 : viewed 24 August 2025), p 447.
5. [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.

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Last Edited

21 October 2026