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FLEMING FAMILY. Can any of your readers inform me who were the parents of the Revs. James and Alexander Fleming, who were brothers " in the same class " at Glasgow University, 1696?

Their great-grandfather is claimed to have been the Hon. Alexander Fleming, fourth son of the 6th Lord Fleming, created 1606 Baron Cumbernauld and Earl of Wigtown (vide ' The Scots Peerage,' vol. viii.).

The Rev. James Fleming was ordained by the Presbytery of Armagh, Jan. 18, 1704 (vide, Reid and Killen's 'History of Congre- gations of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,' 1886, p. 186; 'Records of the Synod of Ulster,' vol. ii. p. 82 ; and 'Swift's Works,' vol. xv. p. 286). He married first

, by whom he had a daughter Mary; and. second (settlements dated March 25, 1718), Mary, daughter of the Rev. James Bruce of Killyleagh, and granddaughter of the Hon. Mary Trail (nee Hamilton), sister to the 2nd Viscount Claneboye, created 1647 Earl of Clanbrassil (vide Burke's ' Peerage,' Bruce, Bart, of Downhill, and Marquis of Dufferin). Mary Fleming (nee Bruce) was great-great-granddaughter of Wm. Bruce of Airth, who married, 1582, the Hon. Jean Fleming, sister to the 1st Earl of Wigtown and aunt to the Hon. Alexander Fleming aforesaid.

The Rev. Alexander Fleming was great- great-great-grandfather of the subscriber to this inquiry. He was ordained at Stone- bridge, by the Presbytery of Monaghan, May 8, 1705 (vide Reid and Killen's ' Pres- byterian Congregations,' p. 231 ; and ' Re- cords of Synod of Ulster,' i. 343, 350, 357 ; ii. 97). He married (settlements dated April 20, 1709) Martha, daughter and coheiress of Samuel Fixter, of Corick and Augher, co. Tyrone, and his wife Susanna, daughter of James and Mary Cairnes of Claremore (vide ' A History of the Family of Cairnes,' by H. C. Lawlor, from which, however, the author, having failed to discover the Fixter marriage, has omitted it). Susanna Fixter, nie Cairnes, was cousin-german to Sir Alexander Cairnes, Bart., and to David Cairnes of Derry defence fame (vide Baron Rossmore and Earl Cairns).

The before-named Rev. James and Mary Fleming had a son Samuel, " Dr. of Physick," of Mountmellick, who married. Oct. 7, 1754, his cousin-german, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Patrick Bruce of Killyleagh (vide Bruce, Bart, of Downhill) and Margaret his wife, fourth daughter of John Hamilton of Ladyland, Ayrshire (m/r Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' Hamilton of

Craighlaw). The third daughter of John and Margaret Hamilton of Ladyland was Elizabeth Hamilton, who married Malcolm Fleming of Barochan, Renfrewshire, and these Flemings owned a common descent with the Earls of Wigtown, and carried the same crest and motto.

W. ALEXANDER FLEMINC. Buslingthorpe Vicarage, Leeds.

AUTHOR OF POEM WANTED. There has recently come into my possession an old poem of 1776 on Ugbrooke Park, Devon, the beautiful seat of the Clifford family. The title-page bears the inscription " To the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Clifford, Baron of Chudleigh, &c., &c." But the author's name is not given. I should be grateful were any reader of ' N. & Q.' able to supply it. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

REFERENCE WANTED. The following lines are, I believe, by George MacDonald, but I cannot find them in his ' Poems.' Where do they appear ?

While he who walks in love may wander far, But God will bring him where the blessed are.

G. T. W.

DOG SMITH. Algernon Sidney, in his ' Discourses concerning Government,' p. 52 (printed in 1698, but written about 1680), says :

" The Partizans may generally claim the same Right over the Provinces they have pillaged : Old Audley, Dog Smith, Bp. Duppa, Brownloe, Child, Dashwood, Fox, &c. are to be esteemed Fathers of the People of England."

Who was Dog Smith ?

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

JOHN STRETTON'S " DAUNCINGE SCHOOLE." I have an old deed dated 1625 relating to property near Temple Bar. It contains a reference to a tenement " called the dauncinge schoole now or late in .the tenure of John Stretton."

Is anything known of this dancing school ? And might it have any connexion with the Blackfriars Theatre ? E. WILLIAMS.

37 Newtown Road, Hove.

SANDFORD FAMILY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly send me a pedigree of the Sandford family of Leonard Stanley, co. Glos., a branch of the Sandfords of Sandford, co. Salop ? I am particularly in search of the identity of one of their wives, sixteenth or seventeenth century, whose family bore : Parti per fesse gu. and az., a fesse arg., in chief a chevron arg. C. SWYKNERTON.

Leonard Stanley, Glos.