June 16 1253 Richard, Bishop of Chichester,

1338 Siege of Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, by the English was raised (i.e. English withdrew and abandoned the siege). Black Agnes was daughter of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, nephew and companion-in-arms of Robert the Bruce, and Moray’s wife, Isabel Stewart, herself a daughter of John Stewart of Bonkyll. Agnes held Dunbar Castle against an English William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, which began on 13 January 1338. Black Agnes, as depicted in a 1906 children’s history book. Agnes Randolph, Countess of Dunbar and March (c. 1312–1369), dark hair and dark eyes. Wife of Patrick, 9th Earl of Dunbar and March. Agnes refused to surrender the fortress, by one account declaring that “Of Scotland’s King I haud my house, I pay him meat and fee, And I will keep my gude auld house, while my house will keep me.”  Agnes is remembered in a ballad which attributes these words to Montague:  “Cam I early, cam I late, I found Agnes at the gate.” Map circa 1914 with Dunbar on the coast of the North Sea, in East Lothian.

1487 Battle of Stoke. Henry VII of England defeats Yorkists led by Lincoln who rebelled in support of Lambert Simnel, a boy claiming to be the Earl of Warwick, son of Edward IV’s brother Clarence (who was actually a prisoner in the Tower). The rebellion was defeated and Lincoln killed at the Battle of Stoke. Henry’s daughter Margaret Tudor became Queen of Scots.  Henry VII (centre), with his advisors Sir Richard Empson and Sir Edmund Dudley.

 

1567 Mary Stewart, Queen, in disguised apparel, and escorted by a strong armed force, was (TG32-126) conveyed from Holyrood to the castle of Lochleven.

1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, great granddaughter of Henry 7th Tudor King of England, recognizes Philip II King of Spain as her heir and successor. Sets up the attempted Spanish Armada invasion of England.

1600 Clan Armstrong, a Scottish clan from the border area between England and Scotland. Members of the clan ambushed and murdered Sir John Carmichael, warden of the Scottish West march on his way to a warden court at Langholm.

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1622 – Alexander Seton, died, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555). son of George Seton, 7th Lord Seton and Isobell Hamilton.

1633 Sir John Gordon, Viscount Kenmuir and Lord Gordon of Lochinvar came to the parliament which sat down at Edinburgh June 16th 1633, and was present the first day, but stayed only a few days thereafter, for being afraid to displease the king [Charles], from whom [Kenmuir] had both received some, and expected more honours, and not having the courage to glorify God by his presence, when his cause was at stake, deserted the parliament under pretence of indisposition of body, and returned home to his house at Kenmuir in Galloway, and there slept securely for about a year without check of conscience, Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE 

LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
 TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent 

SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb. 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh Feb. 17, 1688. together with a succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution. as also, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bloody persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts, and other authenticated Writings:—The whole including a Period of near Two Hundred Years. By John Howie – 1781

1643 the Long Parliament (of England) passes the Licensing Order, Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing, pre publication censorship. Censorship had been handled by the Star Chamber. The Order was Parliament’s attempt at censorship rather than rely on the Crown. Motivated by a desire to eliminate chaos and piracy in the printing industry, protect parliamentary activities and proceedings from its opponents, suppress royalist propaganda and check the widening currency of various sects’ radical ideas, The Licensing Order reintroduced almost all of the stringent censorship machinery of the 1637 Star Chamber Decree including:

pre-publication licensing; registration of all printing materials with the names of author, printer and publisher in the Register at Stationers’ Hall; search, seizure and destruction of any books offensive to the government; arrest and imprisonment of any offensive writers, printers and publishers. This Order was followed by the Solemn League and Covenant between the English Parliamentarians and Scots, pledging a civil and religious union. The Covenant was accepted by the Church of Scotland August 17, 1643, and English Westminster Assembly September 25, 1643.

1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, born in France, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)

1645 , Battle of Naseby. Wikipedia.

1650 – Charles 1st’sailed from Holland, and arriving on the coast of Scotland, landed near the mouth of the river Spey, and advanced to Stirling. (TG46-83)

1723 – Adam Smith, born. Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)

1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession. Pepperell Massachusetts is so named.

1751 [Robert Miller III] ‘This sermon ‘Delivered in Strawberry Chapel ye 16th of June 1751.’ manuscript sermons, yellowed but still entirely legible, in the possession of Col. Francis Pickens Miller in 1970, was delivered before leaving Scotland. 83 YYMA

1815 The Battle of Quatre Bras, Brussels in modern Belgium, Highland regiments wore the kilt with red tunics and tall black ostrich feather caps. French Cuirassiers attacking the 42nd Highlanders.

 

 

42nd Highlands at Quatre Bras

 

 

 

42nd Highlanders (Black Watch) at the Battle of Quatre Bras.  (The officer still wears his dress uniform from the Duchess of Richmond’s Ball in Brussels the night before).

 

 

1821 – Old Tom Morris, born, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)

1829 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York, (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 45. Sometime in June. ‘A great and marvelous work is about to come forth unto the children of men. Behold, the field is white already to harvest; therefore, whoso desireth to reap let him thrust in his sickle with his might,’

1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, the first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861).

1965 Available at you local post office June 16, 1965. The 5-cent stamp marking the 750th anniversary of the great charter, the basis of English and American common law, will be first placed on sale at Jamestown, Virginia, on June 15, 1965. The stamp, designed by Brook Temple of New York City, visually communicates the first successful challenge of the Divine right of kings. In the top panel, in black against a gold background, is a procession of barons, their banners flying defiantly. In the lower panel block on purple, is the crown. The subordinate position of the crown indicates the triumph of the people in their quest for representation under the law.

2009 The Battle of Prestonpans First Day Cover issued. 264th anniversary. 21 September 1745. The Government Forces about to break, 1400 were captured and the royal baggage and artillery captured.

 

 

2015 Elder Holland visits Scotland and England.  Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles dedicated Scotland for the preaching of the gospel in May 1840, having climbed a hill above Edinburgh Castle and asking the Lord for 200 souls who would receive the gospel.

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

Twenty-five years ago, President Gordon B. Hinckley called Elder Jeffrey R. Holland to [move to] the United Kingdom and preside over what was then the Europe North Area. Elder Holland, then a fairly new member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, and his wife, Patricia, and a son, David, lived in Solihull, England for three years, from 1990-1993.  “We loved all of your nations, we loved your languages … but we especially loved the people — we especially loved you,” Elder Holland said in the Edinburgh Scotland Stake Center on June 7 and broadcast to 56 stakes throughout Northern Europe. “It was a tearful day for us when our service came to an end, and we returned to Church headquarters in Salt Lake City.” Elder Holland served as a missionary in Great Britain when he “read the Book of Mormon seriously and voraciously for the spirit it gave to me. It was while reading this sacred record that I felt — again and again — the undeniable whispering of the Holy Ghost declaring to my soul the truthfulness of its message. To those first convictions have been added, one way or another, endless other quickening moments and sanctifying manifestations that give meaning and purpose to my life.” He bore testimony of the Book of Mormon as “a true witness — another testament and a new covenant — that Jesus is the Christ” and that Joseph Smith “was and is a prophet of God.”  He spoke of the conversion of his great-great-great-grandfather on the Isle of Man in the earliest days of the Restoration, who said: “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so” (George Q. Cannon, in Andrew Jenson, Historical Record 6:174).

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865630841/Elder-Holland-in-British-Isles.html?pg=all

2015 Donald Trump, (clan MacLeod, Tong, Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland) the real estate mogul and reality television personality, announces his bid for the presidency in the 2016 presidential race during an event at Trump Tower on the Fifth Avenue in New York City on June 16, 2015.

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/08/14/donald-trump-2016-republican-debate-360188.html

 

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