April 12 – 1413 Thomas de Hamilton of Darngaber was released out of the Tower of London, having been a prisoner of war. The order is dated 12th April 1413, immediately after the accession of King Henry the Fourth. www.electricscotland.com

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.White Tower of London. Work on the White Tower dates from 1070 to 1079. The Basement of the White Tower is believed to be the site of the torture and interrogation of prisoners like the Jesuit Priest John Gerard. – See more at: http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/stories/WhiteTower#sthash.xkPoRGV0.dpuf

Tytler’s History of Scotland from Encyclopedia Britannica

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PERIOD.

A.D.

  1. A.D. Sometime this year Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England; obliged to resign the crown to the Princess Mary Tudor, Queen Mary, restored the previous Catholic religion, and (1555) persecutes the Protestants.
  2. A.D. Sometime this year Philip II. King of Spain.
  5. A.D. 1557 Sometime this year England joined Spain against France. Calais taken by the French. [French allied with Scotland’s Regent Mary of Guise.]
  6. A.D. Sometime this year Elisabeth became Queen of England. [Elisabeth allies with Scots Lords of the Congregation.]
  7. A.D. Sometime this year Francis II. King of France.
  8. A.D. Sometime this year Charles II King of France. Struggle between the French Catholic and Protestant parties commenced.

1566 – Earl of Lennox and trial of Bothwell (clan Hepbern) for murder of Darnley. (TG 32-120)

 

1647 The 1645 pestilence from Paisley, and the 1646 pestilence from Glasgow, arrives in Aberdeen. It had been brought back to Scotland by soldiers who had served at the siege of Newcastle and unwittingly were carriers. On April 12th, the council minutes show that the Provost, Patrick Leslie, called a public meeting in order to inform everyone that a message had arrived saying that the plague had reached Bervie and was raging there. He asked every householder to refuse to accept any person arriving in town from any suspect place in the south, unless they carried a testimonial that they were free of the disease. Plague! By Gordon Johnson.

‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1665 Great Plague of London records 1st death, Rebecca Andrews. (poor not recorded), 100,000 die in London, a fifth of the population. In response, the Aberdeen council decreed that no ships were to be allowed into harbour without first being examined. The arrival in Aberdeen of a Captain Woodward and his family from Northwich in England resulted in them being placed under guard in their house, because he could produce no up-to-date certificate attesting him free of the plague. Their isolation period was set at 40 days, with the cost of the guard on his house charged to him. A ship from Gravesend was refused entry to the harbour, there being suspicion that not only the men but the goods might be contaminated with the pestilence. Even an English naval frigate was stopped outside the harbour until a magistrate went aboard and got sworn statements from the captain that no-one aboard had been in any place suspected of plague for at least six weeks. Plague! By Gordon Johnson Wick, Caithness, Scotland.

Collecting the dead for burial during the Great Plague. ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1703 circa. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, Ireland and Scotland were, according to Edmund Burke “a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Savage, John (1869). Fenian Heroes and Martyrs. Patrick Donahoe. pp. 16. Bans on Catholics, Dissenters from the Established Church Presbyterians. An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act.[Catholic inheritances of land were to be equally subdivided between all an owner’s sons with the exception that if the eldest son and heir converted to Protestantism that he would become the one and only tenant of estate and portions for other children not to exceed one third of the estate. This “Gavelkind” system had previously been abolished by 1600, then repassed. Wikipedia. repealed circa 1829.

1711 – [Robert Miller II of St. Quivox] was called as minister of St. Quivox, near Ayr. 76 YYMA. The present church is composed of three united sections. A plaque on the outside of the west wall of the oldest part shows it was renovated in 1595 by Alan Lord Cathcart, owner of nearby Auchencruive. The middle section was constructed in the latter part of the 18th century by Auchencruive’s owner since 1759, Richard Oswald; in 1782 he was the agent appointed by the Rockingham Ministry to open negotiations with Benjamin Franklin for the treaty that concluded the War of Independence.

Benjamin Franklin one cent.

The church also possesses a number of communion tokens. For many years after (80 YYMA) the Reformation, the right to partake of the Lord’s Supper was strictly scrutinized. The week before a communion service, tokens were issued to members of the church in good standing; on the day of the service, an elder was stationed at the door to collect them. Booths were often erected to shelter such elders from stormy weather during their collections; that at the entrance to Newtown church in Ayr is still in good repair. The minister of St. Quivox in 1965, the Rev. Mr. W. Lyle B. Wilson, sent a token to the Rev. Robert Day Miller of St. Petersburg, Florida, a descendant of the 18th century Robert Miller of St. Quivox.

Lyle Crest: A cock Or, crested and barbed Gules Motto: AN I MAY

1775 Middlesex County Massachusetts. Gun control by the English who have a secret plan to disarm the colonials, by confiscating the Colonials personal pistols and muskets. It is not about crime, but power. the Intolerable Acts (also known as Repressive Acts and Coercive Acts), designed to suppress dissent. Many civil offices, all judges of the inferior courts of common pleas, commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, the attorney general, provosts, marshals, justices of the peace, and sheriffs, that had previously been chosen by election were now to be appointed by the royal governor, effectively revoking the Massachusetts Charter of 1691. Town meetings were forbidden. Across the ocean from Scotland, hundreds of thousands of Scots and their descendants are scattered 2,000 miles up and down the Atlantic coast of the colonies, many having been forced by the Highland Clearances. The English military is watching the colonial arms, particularly those at Lexington and Concord. Gun control will cause the spark for the American Revolution.

1782 West Indies. Admiral Rodney defeated French Admiral De Grasse (victor at Yorktown), defeating the naval power of France and Spain. Tytler’s Britannica.

1788 Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald (b 01.01.1748, d 01.07.1831) married (12.04.1788) Isabella Raymond (d 12.1808, daughter of Samuel Raymond of Belchamp Hall)

1809 Basque Roads. When Cochrane returned to the British fleet, he found that the second attack — 20 fireships — was in complete disarray. Only four of those ships managed to reach the enemy’s position, and they did no direct damage. Cochrane was outraged, reckoning that the fireships could have completely destroyed the French squadron in the confusion following the explosion;

The Régulus stranded on the shoals of Les Palles, 12 April 1809. Cochrane wrote:

“At daylight on the morning of the 12th , not a spar of the boom was anywhere visible, and, with the exception of the Foudroyant and Cassard, the whole of the enemy’s vessels were helplessly aground. The flagship, Océan, a 120-gun three-decker, drawing the most water, lay outermost on the north-west edge of the Palles Shoal, nearest the deep water, where she was most exposed to attack; whilst all, by the fall of the tide, were lying on their bilge, with their bottoms completely exposed to shot, and therefore beyond the possibility of resistance. Throughout the morning of 12 April, Cochrane signalled Lord Gambier to attack the paralyzed French squadron. (Gambier was 14 miles offshore with the blockading fleet; Cochrane had one frigate under his command.) Finally, in desperation, at 13:00 Cochrane allowed his ship to drift toward shore, coming under fire of the land-based fortifications, trying to compel Gambier to send ships to aid Cochrane’s frigate.

The strategy worked; at 13:30, seven British ships came in, and Cochrane spent the rest of the day capturing and destroying French ships.

1830 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania,. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 23. Some days in April. Give your language to exhortation continually.

1878 William Magear Tweed, Boss Tweed, born in New York City (died April 12 1878). Head of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party in New York City. Scots ancestry. The River Tweed is the southern boundary of Scotland.

An 1869 cigar box label featuring Tweed.

 

1889 sometime in April. William Hole paints frieze of Heroes of Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh

Gruoch, Queen of Macbeth; Duncan I King of Scots; Three Vikings; Kenneth MacAlpine, Kenneth I First King of Scots; St Cuthbert, Prior of Melrose; St Adamnan, biographer of St Columba; St Columba, founder of Iona Monastery; St Aidan, missionary and bishop to Northumberland; Brude, 1st King of the Picts; St Kentigern (or Mungo), Patron Saint of Glasgow; Rederech, King of Strathclyde; A Druid; St Ninian, first Christian missionary to Scotland; Theodosius, Roman General

1935 Lieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, died. 12th Earl of Dundonald (1885-1946) KCB The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly The Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) KCVO The Royal Victorian Order (29 October 1852 – 12 April 1935), styled Lord Cochrane between 1860 and 1885, was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general.

Lieutenant-General Cochrane was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1870. He served in the Nile Expedition the Desert March and the Relief of Khartoum in 1885. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 2nd Life Guards in 1895. He served in the Second Boer War and in 1899 he was appointed Commander of the Mounted Brigade, part of the South Natal Field Force. He took part in the Relief of Ladysmith in February 1900. He was appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada in 1902.[2] He served in Great War (afterwards from 1940 styled World War I) as Chairman of the Admiralty Committee on Smoke Screens in 1915. He is buried in Achnaba Churchyard, Ardchattan near Benderloch, Lorn, Argyll & Bute. Wikipedia.

 

1938 Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Descended from Mack of Inverness (clan Mack), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. Marries Jessie Ella Evans in the Salt Lake Temple.

1996 The Bruce. Filmed in Scotland.

The rise to power of Robert I of Scotland, culminating in the Battle of Bannockburn in AD 1314.

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2013 2012 Utah is ranked 2nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017) United Health Foundation America’s health rankings 2013 Senior smoking – Utah ranked 1st , (Fewest smokers) http://www.americashealthrankings.org/senior/OK-UT/2013

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