August 28 430 Augustine Bishop of Hippo Teacher of the Faith,

1190 Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon married David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, a Scottish prince, son of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, and a younger brother of Malcolm IV King of Scotland and William I King of Scotland. David was almost thirty years Matilda’s senior. The marriage was recorded by Benedict of Peterborough.

. The first page of the Peterborough element of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written around 1150, which details the events in Stephen’s reign.

1296 Edward I of England (descendant of Duncan and Malcolm Kings of Scotland) held a parliament at Berwick to which he summoned all Scottish landholders to sign the Ragman Roll. Clan Jardine.

Berwick on the North Sea, north of the River Tweed.

1534 to 1607 to 1641. Sometime these years. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, (with jurisdiction into Ireland, Scotland and British colonies of Africa, India, and Americas), enforced by execution and torture, fine and prison, confiscation and transport to the plantations (American colonies, if ye weren’t already here) 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. Ban on Catholics, Dissenters from the Established Church, (Nonconformists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, Covenanters, Methodists, Congregationalists, Jews, Anglicans 1650-1661, Baptists, along with slaves, felons, imbeciles. and foreigners) Ban on Jews holding every office in the British empire abolished, except as sovereign, when the offices of lord high chancellor and lord lieutenant of Ireland were open to every British subject regardless of creed. The Reform Advocate April 30, 1910. Catholic and dissenters ban repealed circa 1829.

According to A history of the Jews in England, by Albert Montefieore Hyamson, p. 165 and 166 quoting Sir E. Spencer, conditions for conversion – 1. Abandon circumcision. 2. Reversion to Judaism punished, after conversion to Christianity. 3. Confiscate 2/3rds of estates of Jews dying. 5. Compulsion Attendance at Good Friday sermon (once a year). 6. Pay double custom duties. 7. Freedom of movement and trade, exclusion from guilds, corporations, and maintain their own poor. 8. Election of own king, or combination with Levelers or AnABAPTISTS, made a capital offense (death sentence).

1559 28 August 1559, Guise made a public proclamation that she had not violated the truce and rumours that she had breached the appointment were the work of the Congregation. In respect of the sixth article of the agreement, the Duke, Huntly, and the Provost of Edinburgh, Lord Seton, could not persuade the town to allow the Catholic Mass in St Giles. INTERIOR OF ST. GILES. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.104.

1640 Battle of Newburn in Second Bishops war. Parliament of Scotland reassembled the army, crossed the Tweed, entered England to the banks of the Tyne. Charles 1st Lord Conway was at Newburn with 6000 men. The Scots, after silencing the artillery by their superior fire, entered the ford, girdle deep, and made their way across the river. The English fled. (TG41-364)

“Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles” by Anthony van Dyck

1648 surrender of Colchester.

1648 On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Royalists Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were shot.

The Rule of the Saints – 1648. From their heartland in southern Scotland hardline Covenanters, known as Protesters, seize control of Edinburgh in a period that comes to be known as The Rule of the Saints. Video: The Sword and the Cross: Covenant or King.

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

1651 Battle of Upton (the start of the western encirclement of Worcester).

1690 Principal Dr James Fall told the Parliamentary Commissioners of Visitation on 28 August 1690, that he had seen the 1451 Bull of Pope Nicholas V, at the suggestion of King James II (Stewart, king 1685-1688), at the Scots College in Paris, together with the many charters granted to the University by the monarchs of Scotland from James 2nd Stewart to Mary, Queen of Scots.

1745 Cluny MacPherson, chief of the MacPhersons was made prisoner in his own house, (TG76-104) the Prince bivouacked at Dalwhinnie, himself and his principal officers lying on the moor, with no other shelter than their plaids.

Macpherson Highland clan located along the valley of the River Spey, South and East of the Loch Ness, north of the Lake and River Tay. Menzies is pronounced Ming-us. Neighbors included the Robertson, Macdonald, Cameron, Frazer, Blair, Campbell, Murray clans.

1745 August 28 PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART Marched over the Corryarrack Pass to Garvemore (L.P. 443). Here, to his disappointment, the Prince found that Cope, having learned he had seized the pass, avoided meeting his army, and had turned north, marching by Ruthven towards Inverness. Anxious to fight Cope, it was proposed, at a hurriedly summoned council, to go through Strathdeam by forced marches and intercept him at Sliochmuick (Ord. Sur. Slochd Mor); but it was decided that Cope had too long a start and that their own men were too fatigued to make success certain (J.M.B.). Against the Prince’s wish (J.M.B.) a small party was sent to Ruthven under O’Sullivan and Dr. Cameron to destroy the barracks there, but were beaten off with loss by the garrison (I. 294).

A party of Camerons was sent from Garvemore to seize MacPherson of Cluny II at his own house; he was carried prisoner to the Prince next day on the march to Dalwhinny (L.P. 440, C.P. 391). Ewan MacPherson. younger of Cluny, the eldest son of Lauchlan MacPherson was Lochiel’s first cousin and Lord Lovat’s son-in-law, and it is a doubtful point, whether or not he was an unwilling prisoner. He had been gazetted to a company of Lord Loudon’s regiment on June 8th (S.M. 298), and had been in attendance on Sir John Cope and Lord Loudon until the day before his capture. when he had left Ruthven to raise his clan for the Government. He had been insultingly treated by Cope, and ‘an angel could not resist the soothing close aplications of the rebels’ (C.P. 412). He was detained prisoner until the Prince reached Perth (J.M.B.).

1805 Autobiography of the Rev. Dr Alexander Carlyle ; containing memorials of the men and events of his time Carlyle died. Andrew Millar VI, London

Bookseller. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography describes Millar’s appearance in 1763 at the ‘Dragon’ in Harrogate; the gentry refreshing themselves at this resort depended for news on Millar, ‘who had two papers sent him by every post, and were civil accordingly; and yet when he appeared in the morning in his old, well-worn suit of clothes they could not help calling him Peter Pamphlet; for the generous patron of Scotch authors, with his city wife and his niece, were sufficiently ridiculous when they came into good company. YYMA 64 carlyle Carleil Carlisle 1501 2Semple2Montgomerie 2Cochrane2Miller 2Simmons2Choate zoe blair5 TG

1936 The Gorgeous Hussy is a Hollywood movie released about politics in Washington from 1823 to 1837, featuring scots actor James Stewart (clan Stewart) as a politician Rowdy Dow; and Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg who adopted a Scots name of Melvyn Douglas as Virginia Senator John Randolph. And others portrarying Scots Senator John C. Calhoun (Pickens and clan Calhoun) and General Andrew Jackson (Scots Presbyterian of the Waxhaws of South Carolina). The star, Lucille Fay LeSueur, adopted a Scots name of Joan Crawford.

The Petticoat affair (the Eaton affair or the Eaton malaria) was an 1830–1831 U.S. city of Washington society tug of war involving members of President Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet, Vice President Calhoun and their wives. Although a private matter, political careers changed and resulted in the informal “Kitchen Cabinet”. The 1936 film The Gorgeous Hussy is based on the Petticoat affair.

1936 Mary of Scotland released. A 1936 RKO film starring Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) as the 16th century ruler, Mary, Queen of Scots. Douglas Walton as Darnley,

John Carradine as Rizzio (Mary’s Italian tutor); Robert Barrat as Morton (Stewart Regent) Gavin Muir (clan Muir) as Leicester (English Lord, favorite of Elizabeth); Ian Keith (clan Keith) as Moray (Stewart near kin) Moroni Olsen as John Knox (Minister and divine). Olsen was the only member of the film’s cast to repeat his original stage role. Directed by John Ford, it is an adaptation of the 1933 Maxwell Anderson play by Dudley Nichols. The play starred Helen Hayes as Mary. It is largely in blank verse.;

William Stack as Ruthven (Earl Gowrie, near kin of Mary, leader of the 24 Lords of the Congregation). Ralph Forbes (clan Forbes) as Randolph; Alan Mowbray as Throckmorton. Frieda Inescort as Mary Beaton; Donald Crisp as Earl Huntly (clan Gordon), David Torrence as Lindsay; Molly Lamont (clan Lamont) as Mary Livingstone, Anita Colby as Mary Fleming.

Poster. Mary (Queen of Scot) Her third husband, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell (played by Fredric March), as a romantic hero.

2005 Gulf of Mexico. Makes Land Fall. Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, $108 billion estimated, one of the five deadliest hurricanes (1245 died), in the history of the United States.

Hurricane Katrina at peak strength August 28, 2005. Wikipedia. Rear Admiral Robert Duncan (clan Duncan), Commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, headquartered in New Orleans, will participate in evacuation and relief.

 

 

2012 Jacob Warren Summers born. Descendant of several Lords of the Congregation, Scottish ancestry.

 

Disclaimer: The author of each article published on this web site owns his or her own words. The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of Utah Standard News or official policies of the USN and may actually reflect positions that USN actively opposes. No claim in public domain or fair use.    © John Choate