August 20  1309 Robert de Umfraville 9th Earl of Angus appointed sole guardian of Scotland by Edward 2nd (also a descendant of Kings Duncan and Malcolm 3 centuries earlier) but did not act as Robert de Clifford constituted to that office. Anderson v 1 p 137

Angus hills and rivers on this topographic map, circa 1285, a generation before 1309.   Other sites include Gowrie, Dundee, Scone, River Tay, Perth, Dupplin, Fife, Brechin, Dunfermline, Kinghorn, Firth of Forth, North Sea.

1346 Battle of Durham approaching. Philip VI of France appealed to Scotland for help in the Hundred Years War. David 2nd made prisoner by Edward 3rd. Gilbert de Umfraville 10th Earl of Angus fought.

1402 map of the Bishopric of Durham, See of Durham, and battle location of Neville’s Cross, River Wear, Teesdale, Hexham, Newcastle, River Tyne, Banard Castle, Tynedale, Penn, Skelton

1405 – The Auchinleck family had a major feud with the Clan Colville in the 15th century. Sir John De Colville and his wife Alice D’Arcy from Arncliff, Dale, England were beheaded at Durham.

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1421 Dreux garrison surrenders to James I (clan Stewart) King of Scots and Duke of Bedford.

1456 – William Somerville, 2nd Lord Somerville died of a surfeit of fruit. (married to Janet Mowat). Member of the Scottish Parliament in the mid-15th century. He is the first person to have clearly held the title Lord Somerville, having been created such in 1445. Wikipedia

1560 Seige of Leith. Alexander Lockhart died.

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A stipulation of the treaty was that Mary Queen of Scots was to remove the English Coat of Arms from her shield. Mary Queen of Scots was in line to the throne of England (being the Grand-daughter of James IV and Margaret Tudor who was sister of Henry VIII and daughter of Henry VII of England, as with several cousins, including Darnley). Mary Queen of Scots subsequent marriage to Darnley strengthened both their claims. This was due to Darnley’s mother Margaret Douglas being the daughter of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas.

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Whom Margaret the Dowager Queen married after the death of James IV at Flodden. Margaret later had a son, the Master of Methven, with Henry Stewart Lord Methven. All were similarly situated as to the English title.) This change of coat of arms was the reason Mary refused to sign the treaty presented to her by Sir James Sandilands and was indirectly the reason she was executed in 1587. Mary Queen of Scots said ‘’How could a Templar bring such a treaty to her”. Sir James according to history was the last Templar preceptor in Scotland and in fact passed Templar land to the Crown just to receive them back.

Sandilands clan. Motto: SPERO MELIORA. [“I hope for better things”].Chief: The Rt. Hon. the Lord Torphichen

It was to a battered and smoking ruin that Mary, Queen of Scots came, when she arrived in Leith on 20th of August 1560. Legend is she landed at the foot of the Burgess Close. It is often stated that she stayed at the house of Andrew Lamb, which she probably did. The fact that she stayed at Andrew Lambs house is indirect evidence that Mary de Guise didn’t have a House in Leith at all. The Siege of Leith, and loss of Alexander Lockhart, brother of the Laird of Bar, saw the slaughter continue as defeat stared in the eyes of the French. This is the turning point in British history. Not only is it the end of the Auld Alliance with France and the completion of the Reformation in Scotland. It is the beginning of the United Kingdom.

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1589          Anne of Denmark was married by proxy to James VI at Kronborg Castle, the ceremony ending with James’s representative, George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal, sitting next to Anne on the bridal bed, special ambassador to Denmark to arrange the marriage. about 1620 Keith retired to Dunnottar, where Keith died in 1623. Keith is chiefly remembered as the founder in 1593 of the Marischal College in the university of Aberdeen, which Keith richly endowed. From an uncle Keith inherited the title of Lord Altrie about 1593. Wikipedia.

Dunnottar Castle July 2006.

20 August, King Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham and the First English Civil War commences. Wikipedia.

The English Civil War Begins – 1642. The fractious relationship between Charles and his English Parliament erupts into conflict as both sides raise armies. Charles raises his standard at Nottingham. The English Parliament negotiates to gain the support of the Covenanters. Video: The Sword and the Cross: Covenant or King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/covenanters/english_civil_war_begins/

1697 The Darien colony. Sometime in August.

The contributors to the enterprise were encouraged in this stubborn resolution, by the flattering account which was given of the country to be colonized, in which every class of Scotsmen found  something to flatter their hopes, and to captivate their  imaginations. The description given of Darien by  [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-38] Paterson was partly derived from his own  knowledge, partly from the report of bucaniers and  adventurers, and the whole was exaggerated by  the eloquence of an able man, pleading in behalf of  a favourite project. (The Isthmus of Darien (later Panama) was unsettled because it was infected with Yellow Fever, which killed off the settlers. Prevention and cure had to wait two centuries until Pasteur’s discovery of the microbial theory of disease, in the 1850’s, and Col. Walter Reed’s discovery of its transfer to humans by mosquitos, in 1900. Defeat Mosquitoes, and defeat the Yellow Jack.)

Company of Scotland subscription list, 1696 (extract) www.rbs.com

1710 History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804) Part of the War of the Spanish Succession Zaragoza, Spain. Battle of Saragossa

An artist’s rendition of the Battle of Saragossa, or Monte Torrero.

1745 Aug 20. PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART Remained at Glenfinnan while the arms and baggage were carried from Loch Shiel to Loch Lochy (L.P·442 ). 20th, Cope marched to Crieff with the following force: five company of Lee’s, Murray’s regimemt, five companies qf Lord John Murray’s. Highlanders., and was joined at Crieff by eight companies of Lascelles’s. (G.C.T. 16).

1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, Maumee in the Ohio.

1929 september 14 issue. Gen. Anthony Wayne Memorial. The Indians ultimately signed the Treaty of Greenville, which opened much of the Northwest Territory to settlers. Wayne was given command of the Northwest army after Arthur St. Clair’s (clan Sinclair) defeat by Indians in 1791.

1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over. Johnson had Scots ancestry.

1872 Cabinet-maker and children’s poet, William Miller, (born August 1810 died in Glasgow. Best remembered for Wee Willie Winkie. http://www.scottishroots.com/index.php

The original text of 1841 was written in Scots and is below:

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toon,

Up stairs an’ doon stairs in his nicht-gown,

Tirlin’ at the window, crying at the lock,

“Are the weans in their bed, for it’s now ten o’clock?”

“Hey, Willie Winkie, are ye comin’ ben?

The cat’s singin grey thrums to the sleepin hen,

The dog’s speldert on the floor and disna gie a cheep,

But here’s a waukrife laddie, that wunna fa’ asleep.”

Onything but sleep, you rogue, glow’ring like the moon,

Rattlin’ in an airn jug wi’ an airn spoon,

Rumblin’, tumblin’ roon about, crawin’ like a cock,

Skirlin like a kenna-what, waukenin’ sleepin’ fock.

“Hey Willie Winkie, the wean’s in a creel,

Wamblin’ aff a bodie’s knee like a verra eel,

Ruggin’ at the cat’s lug and raveling a’ her thrums-

Hey Willie Winkie – see there he comes.”

Wearit is the mither that has a stoorie wean,

A wee, stumpie, stousie, that canna rin his lane,

That has a battle aye wi’ sleep afore he’ll close an e’e-

But a kiss frae aff his rosy lips gies strength anew to me. Wikipedia.

Wee Willie Winkie in kilt. Shirley Temple stars in the 1937 movie inspired by the poem. Sierra Leone commemorative postage. Movie features Scots regiment.

1912 William and Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 and 1890

2015 Donald Trump (clan MacLeod, Tong, Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland) Holds Bald Eagle for Time Magazine, Is Compared to Zoolander. Falconry is an ancient Scottish custom, including Stewart Duke of Albany in 1425.

August 15, 2015 cover.

 

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