24 December Scots Book of Days. Hugh Montgomery Earl of Eglinton receives remission. Christmas Eve 1540. Descendant of The Bruce and ancestor Great Grandfather of Donald Trump Junior.

        In 1503, King of Scots James the Fourth gave his bride Princess Margaret Tudor a Book of Hours be read for every hour every day of the year.

    The Scots Book of Days is in this tradition.  For more on this date see 

        Turnberry Scotland is the birthplace of King  of Scots Robert the First, called ‘The Bruce’ and 1^st Earl of Carrick,  Lord Annandale, 2^nd Lord Brus. According to FamilySearch.com, President Donald Trump descends from King Robert’s The Bruce both wives.  8^th in descent from the Bruce was Hugh Montgomery First Earl of Eglinton and Third Baron Montgomery and Justice General of North Scotland who married Helen Campbell.

Turnberry is the Golf course in Scotland on The Bruce’s birthplace.

On December 24, 1540, a remission was granted to Hugh Montgomery, earl of Eglinton, his two sons, and thirty others, for abiding from the army at Solway. Hugh had lived in the time of five sovereigns of Scotland, having been born in the last year of King James 2^nd , and died in the third of Queen Mary .} Hugh died in June 1545, 85^th  year of his age.

            Helen Campbell Countess of Eglinton & Hugh Montgomery 1^st Earl Eglinton [conferred 1507], 3^rd Baron Montgomery, Justice General. {The eldest son, Hugh, 3^rd  Lord Montgomery, and 1^st  earl of Eglinton, born  1460, being under age at his father’s [Alexander Montgomerie 2^nd Baron Montgomery] death, was placed under the tutorship of his father’s uncle, Hugh Montgomery. 

William 2^nd Lord Sempill d. 1552 & Lady Margaret Montgomery

Robert Sempill ‘The Great Lord’ 3^rd Baron Sempill & Elizabeth Carlisle. SEMPHILL or SEMPLE, ROBERT, 3^rd  Lord Sempill (d. 1572), commonly called the great Lord Sempill, was the elder son of William, 2^nd  lord Sempill, by his 1^st   wife, Lady Margaret Montgomery, eldest daughter of Hugh, 1^st  earl of Eglinton. The family from the 13^th  century were heritable bailiffs of the regality of Paisley, and sheriffs of Renfrewshire, under the lord high steward of Scotland. They frequently distinguished themselves in the English wars, and were employed in important duties of state. Sir Thomas Sempill, father of John, 1^st  lord Sempill, was killed at the battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488, fighting in support of James 3^rd , and the 1^st  lord (created by James 4^th  about 1489), fell at Flodden on 9 Sept. 1513.

Dorothea or Mary Sempill  & Sir Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie 6^th Margaret Elizabeth Montgomery & William Cochrane of that Ilk. [William Cochrane of that ilk, who succeeded  [John Cochrane of that Ilk], and got charters under the great feal from Mary [ Montgomerie nee Sempill] , of the lands and barony of Cochrane, and several others, inter 1558 et 1560. He was a man of great fagacity, economy, and prudence, and greatly adorned and beautified the ancient feat of the family of Cochrane with large plantations and buildings. He married Margaret, daughter of the fir Robert Montgomery of Skelmorly, in the fhire of Ayr, by Mary his wife, daughter of the lord Robert Semple, by whom he had three daughters.] 16^th century printers font preserved in part, i.e. ‘f’ for ‘s’.

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