August 18 1330 Robert the Bruce King of Scots one last request of his friend and lieutenant, Sir James Douglas

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should take the Bruce’s embalmed heart and bear it with him on crusade, thus fulfilling the pledge that Bruce had been unable to honour in his lifetime.

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Robert the Bruce dies – 1329. After years of illness Bruce dies. Theories about the cause of his sickness. His body is interred at Dunfermline Abbey after his heart is removed in accordance with his death bed decree. Video: A history of Scotland: Bishop Makes King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/wars_of_independence/robert_the_bruce_dies/

The projected campaign in Spain offered Sir James the ideal opportunity. The Battle of Teba, Andalucia took place in August 1330, in the valley below the fortress of Teba, now a town in the province of Malaga in Andalusia, southern Spain. The encounter occurred during the frontier campaign waged between 1327-1333 by Alfonso XI of Castile, against Muhammed IV, Sultan of Granada. Bruce’s preserved heart was placed in a silver casket, which Douglas then carried on a chain around his neck while Sir Simon Locard held the key (creating the surname Lockhart).

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Earl of Carrick, Robert Bruce was born at Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire. His astonishing victory at Bannockburn in 1314 over the larger British forces ensured Scottish freedom from the English. In 1328, a peace treaty was signed at Northampton by the English King, recognizing Scotland as an independent kingdom and Robert Bruce as King.

Scotland secures its independence – 1328. Facing an invasion of northern England, Edward III finally recognizes Scotland as a sovereign nation. Video: A history of Scotland: Bishop Makes King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/wars_of_independence/scotland_secures_its_independence/

1442 Sometime in August. Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell married Margaret Stewart of Ardgowan (d. after August 1442).

1503 Pope Alexander VI died. In the aftermath of the First Italian War, Alexander had moved to consolidate Papal control over central Italy by seizing the Romagna. Cesare Borgia, acting as Gonfalonier of the Papal armies, had expelled the Bentivoglio family from Bologna. At this time England was involved in the War of the League of Cambrai – defending Italy and the Pope from the French (see Italian Wars) as a member of the “Catholic League”. This will lead to the catastrophe at Flodden Field 10 years later.

1560 Master Christopher Goodman of England BD (1520–1603) One of 24 Lords of the Congregation   was an English reforming clergyman and writer. The congregation at Geneva chose John Knox and Goodman in September 1555 for their pastors, and the two formed a lifelong friendship. During his exile Goodman took part in Miles Coverdale’s translation of the Bible, and helped Knox in the “book of common order”. In June 1559 Knox asked Goodman to join Knox at Edinburgh, and Goodman went to Scotland early in September, acting as escort to Knox’s wife and family from Geneva. In October Goodman was made one of the council appointed by the lords of the congregation to treat of religion, Goodman and Knox preaching daily. In November Goodman became minister of Ayr. In the following July Goodman was appointed to St. Andrews. Goodman also went about Scotland preaching, and in August 1560 spent ten days in the Isle of Man where he preached twice. Two years later Goodman and Knox together visited some of the reformed churches in Scotland.

John Knox’s House. Ancestor of Reese Witherspoon. House motto. “Lyfe God aboune al and yi nicht-bour as yi Self,” The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.106.

1604 Robert Bruce, Minister charged to enter in ward at Inverness, within the space of ten days, under pain of horning, which he obeyed upon the 17th following. And in this place he remained for the space of four years, teaching every Wednesday and Sabbath forenoon, and was exercised in reading public prayers every other night, in which his labours were blessed, for this dark country [Inverness] was wonderfully illuminated, and many brought to Christ by means of his ministry, and a seed sown in these remote places, which remained for many years afterwards. Inverness is located in the Northern Highlands downriver from Loch Ness, among the families of Frazer, Grant, Macintosh.

     When Bruce returned from Inverness to his own house, and though his son had obtained a license for him, yet here he could find nothing but grief and vexation, especially from the ministers of the presbyteries of Stirling and Linlithgow, p 158

St Ninians Old Parish Church, Stirling. www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/

and all for curbing the vices some of them were subject to. Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

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LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
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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 – 178181.

1648 – Battle of Preston (1648) for the battle of the Second English Civil War. Began the 17th. Clan Cochrane, a Scottish clan, ‘Lord Cochrane’ fought in the royalist army.

1712 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers died. Second son of Thomas, 3rd Earl; and after the death about 1680 of his elder brother Thomas, styled Viscount Colchester, He was the first nobleman and one of the first persons who joined the Prince of Orange on his landing in England, and he accompanied William to London. Served with distinction in the Williamite war in Ireland and in the Netherlands and was made Major-General in 1698 and Lieutenant-General in 1702. In 1694 he succeeded his father as 4th Earl Rivers. He served abroad in 1702 under Marlborough, In June 1712 Rivers was promoted to the rank of General, and became commander-in-chief in England; he died a few weeks later, on 18 August 1712.

1745 Aug 18 PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART Joined by John Murray of Broughton at Kinloch- Moidart2 (J.M.B.; S.M. 1747, p. 107). The Prince marched to Loch Shiel and went by boat to Glenaladale, where he spent the night. Joined by Gordon of Glenbucket, who brought Captain Switenham with him (J.M.B.).

1834 The title of Astronomer Royal for Scotland was created in 1834 and formally linked with the post of Regius Professor of Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh. Thomas Henderson born Dundee, Scotland 28 December 1798 died Edinburgh, Scotland 23 November 1844. Appointed by Royal Warrant of 18 August 1834 and held office September 1834-23 November 1844. Age on appointment: 35

1864 Elsie Inglis, born, founder of the Scottish Women’s Suffrage Federation, and of the Edinburgh maternity hospital named after her, which finally closed in 1988. http://www.scottishroots.com/index.php

1936 Charles ‘Robert Redford,’ Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Charles Robert Redford, Sr. (November 19, 1914 – April 2, 1991), from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was son of Charles Elijah Redford and Lena Taylor, of Scots ancestry. Redford is a hamlet in the parish of Carmyllie in Angus, Scotland.

Redford is situated on high ground between Aberbrothick (Arbroath), on the coast, and the inland county town of Forfar.

2000 The Little Vampire is an only child who has moved to Scotland.

2001 Enigma is a 2001 espionage thriller released in Edinburgh, about the Enigma code breaker of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. Included is the historical event of the Katyn forest massacre, when the Soviet army murdered twenty thousand Polish officer prisoners of war.   The plot is March 1943, in the Second World War. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boatshave changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers,

Unlock the secret. The film was shot on location in  Scotland.

2015 Donald Trump: (clan MacLeod, Tong, Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland) How I’d Run the Country (Better) from 2004.

August 2004 Esquire interview. It’s been an interesting run. Some people say, “The Apprentice has made you even bigger.” To a certain extent, it has. Now young kids see me and come running over, screaming, “You’re fired! You’re fired!” I’m not sure kids knew who I was before The Apprentice.

One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There’s nothing I can hide. That’s me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn’t. Obviously, the audience likes me.

Regis Philbin: Honest to God? When is this going to end? He’s invaded my territory, pushed me right off the television screen. Now he’s the great American icon?  Anyone who’s ever driven to Atlantic City knows that Trump’s got a big billboard.  Listen, he’s an all-time superstar. You’re lucky that you’re with him right now. You’re getting the Trumpster at the height of his television career.

Trump. Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That’s my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I’m going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.  My life is seeing everything in terms of “How would I handle that?” Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in. I would never have handled it that way. Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C’mon. Two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he’ll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn’t have.

When I look at some of the things that happened in government, I can’t believe it. Countries that we’re protecting are screwing us on oil prices. It’s unthinkable. I wouldn’t stand for it. How would I handle that? That’s what it feels like to be me.  But it’s more than that. I’m competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that’s not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

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