| He was probably that beloved and faithful 'bachellarius' David Fleming to whom King David II, on 27 October 1362, granted certain annualrents. From King Robert III he had a charter on 14 March 1390-91 of £50 of annualrent due to the King by the Abbot and convent of the monastery of Holyroodhouse, payable from the lands of Kerse in Stirlingshire; of the lands of Auchloun, which had been granted to him by Thomas of Lask and John of Futhes, son of Allan of Futhes, on 12 August 1392, which charter was confirmed by Euphemia, Countess of Ross, on 1 October following, and thereafter under the Great Seal on 1 May 1401; and of the lands of Barbethe, Caslis, Galnethe, and Glentall, in parish of Straiten, Ayrshire, 24 August 1404. To the Abbey of Holyrood he, as son and heir of Sir Malcolm Fleming of Biggar, granted an annualrent of £10, payable from the barony of Kerse, on 20 October 1392, which was confirmed by King Robert III on 7 March 1392-93. He was Deputy of the Chamberlain, and as such received various payments in 1399. On 10 May 1399 he had a charter under the Great Seal of the lands of Cambusbarron and Blairegis in Stirlingshire, which had been resigned by Hugh of Aldiston and William of Aldiston, his son, on 10 May 1399; of the chapels of Kirkintilloch and the lands of Drumtablay, with the mill thereof, in Dumbartonshire; of the lands of Woodland and Meiklegall in the barony of Monycabock in Aberdeenshire; and of the lands of Cavers and office of sheriffship of Roxburgh, which had fallen into the hands of the Crown by reason of recognition, by disposition of Isabell, Countess of Mar, to Archibald, Earl of Douglas, on 10 August 1405 without the licence of the King. He mortified the lands of Drumtablay, with the pertinents and the mill thereof lying in the barony of Lenzie, to Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin, and to the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin in Kirkintilloch, for the salvation of his own soul and the souls of his parents, his wife, and others, which deed was confirmed by charter under the Great Seal on 17 August 1399. He further mortified, with consent of Malcolm his son and heir, the lands of Mureton for the welfare of the souls of Malcolm and Christian, his progenitors and himself, and Isabella his wife, to the Monastery of Cambuskenneth, on 8 November 1399, and certain annualrents to the canons of Holyrood Abbey where he directed his burial to be, for pious purposes, among which may be mentioned the repairing of St. Nicholas's altar and the erection of glass windows with his arms thereon. This grant is dated 25 November 1399. He was Auditor of Accounts in Exchequer in 1403, and a Commissioner for a truce with the English 6 July 1404, and he received two payments of £150 on account of two successive embassies to England to take the oath of the English king in 1405 and 1406. On 24 August 1405 there was an indenture between him and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, in reference to the lands of Cavers. He attended James, Prince of Scotland, to the Bass in February 1405-6, and saw him safely on board the ship appointed to carry him to France; but on his return home he was attacked and killed at Longherdmanston, six miles out of Edinburgh, on the 14 of that month, by James Douglas of Balveny, afterwards seventh Earl of Douglas, at the instigation, it is said, of the victim's own grandson, Alexander Seton.11 |