February 5 1569 February Edinburgh plague killed off 2500 inhabitants. Chambers. ‘According to custom in Edinburgh the families which proved to be infected were compelled to remove, with all their goods and furniture, out to th the Burgh-moor, where they lodged in wretched huts hastily erected for their accommodation. They were allowed to be visited by their friends, in company with an officer, after eleven in the forenoon; anyone going earlier was liable to be punished with death – as were those who concealed the pest in their houses.  Their clothes were meanwhile purified by boiling in a large caldron erected in the open air, and their houses were cleansed by the proper officers.

Plague Mask

All these regulations ere under the care of two citizens selected for the purpose and called Bailiies of the Muir; for each of whom, as for the cleansers and bearers of the dead, a gown of gray was made with a white St Andrew’s Cross before and behind. Another arrangement of the day was ‘that there be made twa clos bieirs, with four feet, coloured over with black, and which cross with ane bell, to be hung upon the side of the said beire, which shall make warning to the people,’ P 366 A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Charles Creighton, M.A. M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy  University of Cambridge.  1891

The black death, Bubonic Plague.

1599 never happened in Scotland. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic,  or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1  Mosiah 27:31, Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, Doctrine and Covenants 88:104

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”.

1642 the bishops of the Church of England are excluded from the House of Lords by the Bishops Exclusion Act, also called The Clergy Act 1640 or the Clerical Disabilities Act, (16 Car. I, c.27). The Act was later repealed by the Clergy Act 1661.

1649 eldest son of Charles I, Charles, proclaimed King of Scots in Edinburgh, Scotland, as Charles 2^nd.  Charles 2^nd  won’t leave legitimate heirs so he won’t be ancestor of any English or Scottish monarchs (besides himself) after 1685, until well into the 21st century.  Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, was descended from two of Charles’s illegitimate sons; Henry Fitzroy, 1^st  Duke of Grafton, and Charles Lennox, 1^st  Duke of Richmond. This means that Diana, late Princess, and Charles Duke of Cornwall and Prince of Wales, present (as of 2018) Prince of Wales’ son, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, will become the first descendant of Charles II to occupy the British throne, if William succeeds as expected.  (as of 2018 William is 2^nd in line for the throne of England and Scotland after his father who is 1^st in line, all waiting for Elizabeth 2^nd to create an opening.)

1697 Paisley Witch Trials, At the request of the Presbytery of Paisley the Scottish Privy Council set up a commission to investigate the case. To the north of the Paisley church, the original abbey buildings have latterly been reclaimed to ecclesiastical use after varied occupancy: they endured degradation in the 19^th  century, when they were a noisesome slum; they manifested secular splendor in the 17^th , when they were known as the Palace of Paisley’. Their then occupant was a Blair of Blair who married a Cochrane heiress, took the Cochrane name, and by canny investment made himself one of the largest  landowners in Renfrew and Ayr. In 1669 his eldest son, William, became the first Earl of Dundonald, p. YYMA 72. Lord Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree, with the Paisley church buildings as his town house.

 In May 2008 a new horseshoe was designed by Sandy Stoddart and laid at the crossing – location of  1697 burnings of witches. The inscription on the horseshoe reads “Pain Inflicted. Suffering endured. Injustice done”. http://www.paisley.org.uk/2016/06/paisley-witches/

During the course of the Reformation (i.e. 1560 to 1715) Blair’s family ramified in opposite directions:  William Lord Cochrane (later Earl of Dundonald) had a  niece Grizel, who  married a deprived minister of the Church of Scotland, Robert Miller of Ochiltree (ancestor of Simmons and Choate); Dundonald’s (as the Earl of Dundonald became to be called)  grand-daughter married Claverhouse of the Killing Time ( so called by the Presbyterians) or   Bonnie Dun Dee, ( so called by the Catholics and Jacobite General)  John Graham (who died 1689 Killed in Action) John Graham was 7th Laird of Claverhouse, and created 1st Viscount of  Dundee in November 1588 . Many more of the Cochrane descendants are noticed appropriately in this Book of Days.

Bonnie Dundee is a young adult novel first published in 1983 by Rosemary Sutcliff (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) Commander of the Order of the British Empire I 1992. It featured John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, who fought the Scottish Covenanters for James II, then led the first Jacobite uprising against William and Mary. Sutcliff Wiki

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America, and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. But 1751 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days. The repealed Julian calendar has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months. A leap day is added to February every four years. The Julian year is, therefore, on average 365.25 days long. It was intended to approximate the tropical (solar) year.

1781 Lord George Gordon, arrested and in prison in the Tower, was tried for high treason, and acquitted. This was due to riots in opposition to repeal of the penal statutes against Roman Catholics.  (i.e. the anti Catholic penal statutes continued until 1829) Tytler’s Britannica.

1789 Sir Thomas John Cochrane (b 05.02.1789, d 19.10.1872, Admiral) had issue (06.01.1812) Matilda Wishart-Ross (d 04.09.1819, daughter of Sir Charles Ross, 7th Baronet) m2. (08.01.1853) Rosetta Wheeler-Cuffe (d 27.05.1901, daughter of Sir J.D. Wheeler-Cuffe, 1st Baronet).

1790 – William Cullen, died, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)

1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, born, Scottish inventor (d. 1921) born on a farm in Dreghorn, a village in North Ayrshire, and studied to be a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet, University of Edinburgh.

Dunlop. Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger erect all Proper Motto: MERITO [“Deservedly”] Seat: Dunlop, in Cunningham, Ayrshire

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Memorial to john Boyd Dunlop at Dreghorn.

1846 all year long. The Great [Irish Potato] Famine, or an Gorta Mór,  a million died, and a million fled between 1845 and 1852. Fewer than 100,000 came to Scotland, less than elsewhere yet proportionately massive in a country of 2.8 million. Those who came to Scotland were among the most destitute of those fleeing the famine.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13086735.The_Great_Famine_and_Scotland/

1849 Charles W. Nibley born 5 feb 1849, came from the coal mines of Hunterfield, Midlothian, Scotland to find success in the business of lumber and sugar. He later became not only the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ , but eventually a member of the First Presidency, the highest body of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’  government, died 11 December 1931 in Salt Lake City. His grandson, Hugh, born in 1910, later came to be considered one of the greatest Latter-day Saint scholars in the field of ancient studies. CONVEYANCE & CONTRIBUTION:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

SCOTS GATHER TO AN AMERICAN ZION, History Scotland m agazine – Vol.5.4 – July/August 2005

 Charles W. (Wilson) Nibley

1849 – 1931. Born 1849 Hunterfield, Scotland

Baptized as a child

Married Rebecca Neibaur 1869; practiced plural marriage; twenty-four children

Presiding Bishop of Church, 1907-1925

Second Counselor to Heber J. Grant, 1925-31

Died 1931 Salt Lake City, Utah

1881 – Thomas Carlyle, died. Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795, Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland¹). Dickens used Carlyle’s work The French Revolution: A History (1837) as a primary source for the events of the French Revolution in his novel A Tale of Two Cities.

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24 CHEYNE ROW, CHELSEA, THE HOME OF THOMAS CARLYLE. In his youth the great Scottish essayist and historian walked one hundred miles to enter Edinburgh University. In 1834, already known as the author of Sartor Resartus, he moved to London to begin his famous work, The French Revolution. In 1895 the house was opened as a museum. Portrait by courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery.   www.englishteastore.com/typhoo-history-cards-set-8.html

1900 The Battle of Val Krantz and Pieters. The Boer War. 5^th  February to 28^th  February 1900. The Tugela River, Northern Natal in South Africa.
 The British Order of Battle: Cavalry (Earl of Dundonald, now hereditary Chief of clan Cochrane), 1^st  Royal Dragoons, 13^th  Hussars, Bethune’s Mounted Infantry. Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry, Natal Carabineers, South African Light Horse, Imperial Light Horse, Imperial Light Infantry, Natal Police, 2^nd    Scottish Rifles (the auld 90^th  Light Infantry) 2^nd  Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2^nd  Scottish Rifles (the auld 90^th  Regiment), with the 2^nd  Devons from Hildyard’s brigade, scaled Val Krantz driving the Boers from the lower slopes of the hill and coming under heavy fire from the surrounding higher positions.

2011 New Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Lisa K. and Monte Holm. Assigned to South Carolina Columbia Mission

Monte Holm, 52,(April 27, 1958) and Lisa K. Drake Holm, six children, Stone Cliff Ward, St. George Utah Little Valley Stake. Brother Holm serves as a Member of the High Council and is a former counselor in a bishopric, elders quorum president, and missionary in the North Carolina Greensboro Mission. Executive vice chairman, World Financial Group. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Carl Otto and Florence Jessop Holm.

Sister Holm serves as a temple preparation teacher and is a former seminary teacher, counselor in a ward Relief Society presidency, counselor in a ward Young Women presidency, counselor in a ward Primary presidency, and gospel doctrine teacher. Born in Salt Lake City to Larry Wayne Drake and Bonnie Saxton Humphrey.

 Lisa K. and Monte Holm

World Financial Group is a subsidiary of Transamerica and Aegon.

Holm is a parish in Orkney, and 37 place names for islands in Orkney, Shetland, and Skye, Scotland.

2016 Salt Lake City. RootsTech. Dr. Bruce Durie’s Tracing your Scottish Roots.