August 4 521 Saint Columba born in Ireland. Sometime this year. Royal descent. Tytler’s Britannica 8,

568 iona. Sometime this hyear. Saint Columba with 12 friends, lands on island of Hy or iona, Inner Hebrides, to bring Christianity. Tytler’s Britannica 9.

Or, the Apostle Andrew brought Christianity circa 60 A.D. to the Picts.

Iona is the island west of Mull, the collective name of the islands of the inner Hebrides on the Firth of Lorne. Other sites include Colonsay, B More, Argyll, Crinan.

597 Saint Columba. Died, age 77. Tytler’s Britannica 9.

265 Battle of Evesham , Worcestershire. Second Barons’ War marked the defeat of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and the rebellious barons by Prince Edward – later King Edward I – who led the forces of his father, King Henry III. Robert de Brus, 5^th Lord of Annandale.

1299 Robert VI the Bruce, 6^th Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1253–1304) While resident at Writtle, Rents lands at Hatfield Regis, Essex to a Nicholas de Barenton, for 21s annual rent. (20 shillings to the pound).

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1327 The Battle of Stanhope Park a hunting preserve belonging to the bishops of Durham. From here on the night of 4 August, Good Sir James Douglas led an assault party across the river in a surprise attack on the sleeping English, later described in a French eye-witness account;

The Lord James Douglas took with him about two hundred men-at-arms, and passed the river far off from the host so that he was not perceived: and suddenly he broke into the English host about midnight crying ‘Douglas!’ ‘Douglas!’ ‘Ye shall all die thieves of England’; and he slew three hundred men, some in their beds and some scarcely ready: and he stroke his horse with spurs, and came to the King’s tent, always crying ‘Douglas!’, and stroke asunder two or three cords of the King’s tent. Panic and confusion spread throughout the camp: Edward [3^rd] himself only narrowly escaped capture, his own pastor being killed in his defence.

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Map showing Scottish Borders of 1402, and the Bishopric of Durham where the Weardale campaign was fought ending with the battle of Stanhope Park. The English were between the River Tyne and River Wear. 2 Decades after the Battle of Stanhope Park was the Battle of Neville’s Cross (1346).

1503 stable fire kills Queen Margaret Stewart’s (nee Tudor) favorite horses, shortly after arriving in Scotland.

1514 Archibald Douglas, having succeeded as 6^th Earl Angus, married widow Margaret Stewart (nee Tudor) of England, queen dowager of James 4^th, King killed at Flodden in 1513. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 46. Their descendant (Darley and Mary) will rule Scotland and later England (James 1^st).

1536 James V sailed from Pittenween in Fife on 23 July 1536,

1799 map showing the port of Pitenween on the Frith of Forth in Fife. Also St. Andrew, Woodhaven, Balmarino, Capar, Falkland, Kencuray, Largo, Crail, Fife Ness, Kitrenny, Andtruthers E&W, Dvsart, Kirkcaldy, Craig Leigh.

James 5^th circumnavigated the Isles and landed at Whithorn in Galloway on 4 August.

1799 Map showing port of Whitehorn between GlenInse Bay, east of the Mull of Galloway, and Wigtown Bay, and Benkill. Other locations are Newtown, Stewart, Glen Kirkudbright, Kelly, Miltown, and Cloyn.

Within Scotland, the purpose of this voyage was unknown and led to speculation that a trip to France was intended. It was even suggested that the King James 5^th was brought back to Scotland unawares. Adam Abell, a Friar at Jedburgh Abbey wrote-left side, modern right side;

1799 Map of Scotland. James 5^th Circumnavigates Scotland. Departs Firth of Forth July 23, lands Wigtown Bay August 4, 1536.

Jedburgh Abbey. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.63.

1701 – Thomas Blackwell, born, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)

1716 – Lord Winton received sentence of death after (TG71-391) trial, but also made his escape from the Tower. The 2^nd Earl Eglinton’s daughter, Lady Margaret, married Robert Seton of the Clan Seton, the 1^st Earl of Winton who was a loyal Covenanter during the Civil War. Their son, Alexander Seton took his mother’s maiden name of Montgomery and became the 6^th Earl of Eglinton. Alexander was a Protestant supporter of King Charles II. Alexander was imprisoned by General Monck for Alexander’s Royalist sympathies in 1659. Monck’s anti-royalist bona fides (lock up a few Royalist sympathizers every so often), will seduce the Covenanters to permit Monck’s Command of the Army, wherein the Army will occupy London and Monck will restore Charles 2^nd.

1745 Aug. 4 The frigate Doutelle, having discharged its stores and armaments, left

Lochnanuagh and went privateering (I. 293),1 and PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART took up his quarters at Borradale. Here he continued to send messengers and letters to his friends and adherents all over the country.. Clanranald’s people alone were his guard at Borradale (L.P. 482).

1797 earthquake in Argyll 3.3 power. 2 Nephi 6:15 And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed, both by earthquakes. And they shall know that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.

1847 Andrew Sproul. During the same year the Saints first entered the Salt Lake Valley, Sproul wrote in his diary, “Poverty is in upon us like a fiend Scarcety of labour . . . ; nothing to depend upon for famely but my own labour, dearth of food, part of the last & this year has reduced us to want & I could gither my family around me before the Lord & in the naime of Jesus Pray give us this our dayley bread, all our clothes pledged except our every day appearal to purchase a little food.” HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1899 Ezra Taft Benson, 13^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, born Whitney Idaho. (1899-1994) He served a mission to Great Britain and after his return was married to his sweetheart, Flora Amussen, in 1926. From 1953 to 1961, Benson served as Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.”

(clans Bruce, Buchan, Carrick, Cheney, Comyn, Douglas, Dunbar, Giffard, Lindsay, Mar, Montgomery, Stewart, and Malcolm III Ceannmor King of Scots)

http://etb.bensonfamily.org/etb-anc/surnames.htm

1900 Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes–Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband’s death, then Dowager Queen.

Queen Mother of Elizabeth II was born Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon. Lady Elizabeth married George, the Duke of York, in 1923 and had two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret. In 1936, her husband became King George VI and she served as the last Queen of Ireland and Empress of India. At her coronation, Elizabeth was created the first ever Lady of the Thistle. In London during World War II bombings, she gained special affection and admiration from the people. Hitler described her as “the most dangerous woman in Europe.”

1997 Time cover, qu otes President Gordon B. Hinckley (Scots descent)