December 27 circa AD 95 John, Apostle and Evangelist feast day.

1532 sometime in, A royal charter was granted to University of Saint Andrews after Papal authority in 1410, when James Kennedy was Bishop of St Andrews and founder of Scotland’s first university.  Saint Andrews on the North Sea coast in Fife, between the Firths of Forth and Firth of Tay.

1647 ‘’Sir William Cochrane of Cowdon, *** a man of great parts and learning, and though, in the beginning of the civil war, he appeared to be on the parliament’s fide, and was for some time employed to their fervice, yet he was inviolably attached to the intereft of the royal family. He eminently diftinguifed himself in their fervice upon every occation; particularly in the parliament of 1647, of which he was a member, and none was more forward than fir William in calling forces for the relief of the king, who, on account of his great merit and faithful fervice, was pleafed to raife him to the dignity of the peerage by the title of Lord Cochrane, by patent to the heirs-male of his body,’’ dated Scarborough, 27th December 1647.

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Later [William was raised] to the Earl[dom] of Dundonald. Married Eupheme, daughter of fir Willaim Scot of Ardofs, in Fife-fhire, by whom he had two fons, and one daughter: 1. William lord Cochrane 2. Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, anceftor of the prefent earl of Dundonald, of whom more hereafter. His daughter, Grizel, married to George lord Rofs, and had iffue. The earl died anno 1686.’’ [spelling retained, especially ‘f’ for ‘s’]Older Brother of Colonel Hugh Cochrane.

Sir John is an ancestor of the late Princess of Wales Diana Spencer, mother of Princes William and Henry, and grandmother of Prince George.

Scottish lines of the heirs Prince William and George, Clans and titles, – Clans Abernethy, Anesley, Baillie, Beaton, Byset-Bisset, Blain, Boswell, Borthwick, Boyd, Bruce, Buchan, Caldwell, Cameron, Campbell, Carey, Carmichael, Carnegie, Carrick, Cheyne, Cochrane, Cockburn, Colville, Colquhoun, Comyn, Cranstoun, Crawford, Crichton, Cunningham, Dalmahoy, Dirleton, Douglas, Drummond, Dunbar, Dundas, Edmonstone, Erskine, Fleming, Forbes, Fraser, Gifford, Glen, Gordon, Graham, Grant, Gray, Guthrie, Halliday, Halyburton, Hamilton, Hay, Heaton, Hepburn, Herries, Home, Huntingdon, Huntly, Jardyne, Ker, Keith, Kennedy, Kinnaird, Lamont, Lennox, Leslie, Lindsay, Livingstone,   Lockhart, Lovat, Lyon, McCulloch, MacDonald, MacDougall, MacDuff, MacFergus, MacKintosh, MacLeod, MacRory, Mar, Maxwell, Melville, Menteith, Moncrieff, Montgomery, Moray, Mure, Murray, Nicoloson, Ogilvy, Orkney, Ramsay, Randolph, Ross, Ruthven, Scott, Shaw, Saint Clair – Sinclair, Sempill-Semple-Semphill, Seton, Sibbald, Somerville, Stewart, Stirling, Strachan, Tait, Turnbull, Urquhart, Vaux, Weir, Wemyss, Yester.

Additional Scottish line of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, by Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. Allan, Muir, Newbigging, Watson. Source www.Fabpedigree.com

1647 The Engagement between Charles [later described as 1st] of England and Covenanters was agreed on December 27, 1647 (per Rampant Scotland). Scotland agreed to invade England to restore Charles to his throne, while Charles conceded the right to practice Presbyterianism for three years.  Sir Walter Scott covered this history in his “Tales of a Grandfather” ‘When this treaty (which was called the Engagement, because the Commissioners engaged to restore the King by force of arms) was presented to the Scottish Parliament, it was approved by the more moderate part of the Presbyterians, who were led by the Duke of Hamilton, together with his brother, the Earl of Lanark, the Lord Chancellor Loudon, and the Earl of Lauderdale; this last being destined to make a remarkable figure in the next reign.  But the majority of the Presbyterian clergy, headed by the more zealous of their hearers, declared that the concessions of the King were entirely insufficient to engage Scotland in a new war, as affording no adequate cause for a quarrel with England.  This party was headed by the Duke of Argyle http://dailysirwalter.blogspot.com/

Charles I was confined in Carisbrooke Castle

1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1697) died. Elements of Criticism author. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell,

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David Hume and Adam Smith, Home was on the panel of judges in the Joseph Knight case which ruled that there could be no slavery in Scotland. The case for Knight was helped in preparation by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson.

Henry Home, Lord Kames; Hugo Arnot; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, by John Kay. Arnott Seat: Arnott, Portmoak in Kinross-shire

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Elements of Criticism. etc. Edinburgh; Printed for A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh. MDCCLXIL.  

Essays Moral etc. by David Hume, Esq. etc. London Printed for A. Millar over against Catherine Street in the Strand, etc. [Andrew Miller, clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter]

 

1800 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718) died.

Hugh Blair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburg. Blair was born in Edinburgh into an educated Presbyterian family. His father was John Blair, an Edinburgh merchant. (clan Blair).

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1832 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 88. “‘olive leaf’ … plucked from the Tree of Paradise, the Lord’s message of peace to us. For not many days hence and the earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man; and the sun shall hide his face, and shall refuse to give light; and the moon shall be bathed in blood; and the stars shall become exceedingly angry, and shall cast themselves down as a fig that falleth from off a fig tree. For after your testimony cometh the testimony of earthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst of her, and men shall fall upon the ground and shall not be able to stand. And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds.’’

 1866 Malcolm Macleod born Stomoway, Ross and Cromarty Scotland. He was a fisherman and crofter, and also served as the “compulsory officer,” in charge of enforcing attendance at the local school from 1919. He died of “cerebral thrombosis” on 22 Jun 1954 in Tong. Malcolm MACLEOD and Mary SMITH were married in the Back Free Church of Scotland just a few miles from Stornoway, the only town on the Isle of Lewis. Their marriage was witnessed by Murdo MacLeod and Peter Smith.  Grandparents of Donald John Trump.

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