April 15 Easter Court Term – April 15 to May 8


1392 Sometime in. The Statute of Praemunire was passed by the Parliament of England during the reign of Richard II. This statute, after first stating “that the right of recovering the presentments to churches, prebends, and other benefices . . . belongeth only to the king’s court of the auld right of his crown, used and approved in the time of all his progenitors kings of England,” proceeds to condemn the practice of papal translation, and after rehearsing the promise of the three estates of the realm to stand with the king in all cases touching his crown and his regality, enacts “that if any purchase or pursue, or cause to be purchased or pursued in the court of Rome, or elsewhere, any such translations, processes, and sentences of excommunications, bulls, instruments or any other things whatsoever … he and his notaries, abettors and counsellors” shall be put out of the king’s protection, and their lands escheat. Enforcement was revived circa 1534. 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, Ban on converting from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism on pain of Praemunire. Wikipedia. repealed circa 1829.

A century and a half later Statute of Praemunire is enforced. Wolsey‘s office of papal legate was in direct violation of the ancient Statute of Praemunire which outlawed direct papal jurisdiction. 19 Nov 1529 Wolsey had to surrender the great seal of England. On 22 Nov 1529 Wolsey was forced to sign a deed confessing that Wolsey had incurred a praemunire and surrendering all his vast possessions to the King (of England Henry 8^th. By this time Henry’s sister Margaret was Queen of Scots, and the tug of Protestant Reformation in England and Switzerland would change Scotland within 30 years.

1488 9^th Earl of Douglas dies in monestary. After forfeiture in 1455, Douglas lands bestowed on 4^th earl of Angus, descended from George Douglas, son of William 1^st Earl Douglas, ‘the red Douglas had put down the black.’

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1509 Louis XII of France (who, having been left in possession of Milan after the Second Italian War, was interested in further expansion into Italy). Louis left Milan at the head of a French army and moved rapidly into Venetian territory.

1512 James V (Seumas V Stiùbhairt) born 1513–1542.

James V (Seumas V Stiùbhairt)

1534 to 1607 to 1641 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, Ban on converting from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism on pain of Praemunire or Praemunire facias: forfeiting all property estates and legacy to the monarch of the time and remaining in prison at the monarch’s pleasure. In addition, forfeiting the monarch’s protection. No injury however atrocious could have any action brought against it or any reparation for such. Wikipedia. repealed circa 1829.

1547 William Murray, Laird of Tullibardine; One of 24 Lords of the Congregation. He married Lady Agnes Graham, daughter of William Graham 2^nd Earl of Montrose and Lady Janet Keith, on 15 April 1547.

1584 RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie (1541?–1584), Provost and Lieutenant of Perth, Lord High Treasurer, went to his lodgings, in Dundee, which he barricaded and resolved to hold, with the aid of his servants; but finding that the townspeople, through the influence of the Earl of Crawford, sided with Stewart, he finally surrendered. His capture upset the plans of the other conspirators, who took refuge in England.

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1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War. Scots mercenaries used, including Hugh Cochrane, Colonel.

Old Glory Orkney’s painted by BH. www.leagueofaugsburg.blogspot.com

The Royal Scots take their seniority from a Warrant of 1633 but its history starts before that, in the Scots regiments that fought during the Thirty Years War.  The Thirty Years War started in Bohemia and here a Scottish regiment was raised by Sir Andrew Gray to fight for the Elector Palatine Frederick V. Defeated at the Battle of the White Mountain the regiment retired to Holland where it fought against the Spanish. In 1623 Sir Andrew handed over command to another Scot who had commanded a company in Bohemia.  Sir John Hepburn from Athelstaneford in East Lothian took the regiment into service with Gustavus Adolphus. The Green Brigade For the next seven years the regiment fought with Adolphus. When Sweden entered the Thirty Years War Hepburn’s regiment, Mackay’s Regiment, Lumsden’s musketeers and Stargate’s regiment –all Scots- joined together to form the Green Brigade. Hepburn commanded this Scottish Brigade.

1641 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)

1710 – William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)

1745 Prince at Inverness calls for Earl of Cromarty’s regiment to join. (TG83-313)

Black Isle, Mid Ross & Easter Ross Highlands. Fortrose, Cromarty or Tain, Scotland’s oldest Royal burgh, /www.visithighlands.com/northern-scottish-highlands/blackisle/

1746 Barrel, Munro, Wolke, Duke of Cumberland, Charles Edward Stuart, position their force march to meet at Culloden.

The Battle of Culloden.

One o’clock afternoon the artillery began. The insurgents had 6000 men versus King George’s 9000 soldiers.   The Campbells served the Duke of Cumberland.

1755 written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson’s Dictionary, is among the most influential works in the history of the English language. “Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”

Johnson’s Dictionary Vol. 1 (1755) title page, A. Millar . ‘’I was also present in the St. George Temple and witnessed the appearance of the Spirits of *** others ***.. .Who came to Wilford Woodruff and demanded that their baptism and endowments be done. Wilford Woodruff was baptized for all of them.***. These men.. *** were the best spirits the God of Heaven could find on the face of the earth to perform this work.***They also prepared the peoples hearts so they would be ready to receive the restored gospel when the Lord sent it again to men on the earth.” (Personal journal of James Godson Bleak-Chief Recorder of the St. George Temple, Clerk to Brigham Young)

1761 – Archibald Campbell, 3^rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)

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1775 Boston Massachusetts. Red Coats clean and prepare muskets, sharpen bayonettes. Gun control by the English, who have secret plans to disarm the colonials, by confiscating the Colonials personal pistols and muskets. It is not about crime, but power. 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 after the ’45 (1745 Jacobite uprising). The English military watch the colonial arms, particularly those at Lexington and Concord.  Tensios are in continuum of the Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as “the Destruction of the Tea in Boston“^[2]) which was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. English forcing Gun control will cause the spark for the American Revolution.

1828 Robert Sands (conductor) was born and became the first conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir after the building of the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. He moved to Scotland, where he was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1849 and then served for a time as a Mormon missionary in Scotland.

1865 across from Ford’s Theater, City of Washington, District of Columbia. Mrs. Mary Ann Lincoln (nee Todd) accompanied her mortally wounded husband, Abraham, across the street to the Petersen House, where he was taken to a back bedroom and laid crosswise on the bed there, where Lincoln’s Cabinet was summoned. Their son Robert sat with his father throughout the night until the President died the following morning – Saturday, April 15, 1865. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered Mary from the room as she was so unhinged with grief. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln grieves her husband’s death, by assassination. Mary’s paternal great-grandfather, David Levi Todd, was born in County Longford, Ireland, and emigrated through Pennsylvania to Kentucky. Mary’s great-great maternal grandfather Samuel McDowell was born in Scotland, and emigrated to Pennsylvania. Wikipedia.

1912 William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor and first officer (b. 1873). Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster.

The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.

1914 A memorial to the 36 engineers who lost their lives in the RMS Titanic, disaster is situated in the foyer of the Scottish Opera, Elmbank Street, Glasgow, formerly the headquarters of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, whose members subscribed for the memorial. It was unveiled on 15 April 1914

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1938 Donald’s Nephews released, is a Donald Duck feature being visited by his three nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Dewey, Huey, and Louie (left to right), with Scrooge McDuck, as they appeared on DuckTales. (fictional clan McDuck) .

1952 sometime in. B Kent Burton’s mother delivers. Clan Haliburton (BURTON) History:
The Haliburton family name comes from lands in Berwickshire, which were originally called Burton or Burghton, but following the establishment of a church there, they became known as Holy Burton or Haly Burton. The first record is of Walter de Halyburton confirming a donation from his church of Halyburton to the Abbey of Kelso in 1176. The name also appears in the Ragman Roll of 1296 as a Sir Henry Halyburton joined many of the Scottish nobility in pledging allegiance to Edward I of England. Sir Henry’s grandson, Sir Walter was captured at the Battle of Durham in 1346, and was finally ransomed in 1357, along with David II. Another Walter Haliburton offered himself as hostage for James I in 1424, he became High Treasurer of Scotland in 1439, and a Lord of Parliament a year later. His wife, Lady Isabel Stewart was the eldest daughter of the Regent Albany and widow of the Earl of Ross. John, 2^nd Lord Halybaurton, married Janet, daughter of Sir William Seaton of Seaton, and bore two sons, both of whom bore the title. The family title passed into the family of Ruthven, when the 6^th Lord Halyburton died in 1506, leaving three daughters. The eldest daughter, Janet, married William, Lord Ruthven. The grandson of Janet, Lady Ruthven, was raised to the title of Earl of Gowrie in 1581, however the titles were forfeited when the 3^rd Earl and his brother were executed for ‘treason’ [In reality to remove them from competition for the English throne of their cousin Elizabeth]. James Halyburton of Pitcur, a descendent of the principal family, held the post of Provost of Dundee from 1550 until 1583. He was a dedicated supporter of the Reformation, and fought alongside the Regent Moray against Queen Mary at the Battle of Langside in 1568. He assisted Regent Lennox in dispersing the Queen’s soldiers in 1570. He died aged seventy in 1588. George Halyburton was knighted by Charles I in 1633 and rose to become Lord President of the Court of Session in 1642. He was involved in a commission for revising Scottish law, and his reported was accepted and passed by Parliament in 1649.

2014

http://www.paysonscottishfestival.org/past-festival-highlights.html announces Grab your kilt (or jeans) and head down to the

31^st Annual Payson Scottish Festival and Highland Games! July 11 and 12, 2014.

2015 2016 Utah is ranked 2^nd 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.   Smoking (% of adults) Utah #1 2015 report.   p.126. http://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/2015ahr_annual-v1.pdf

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