July 17 1328 Joan of England age 7 at Berwick upon Tweed marries David II (Bruis). Arranged marriage.

Joan & David II with Philip VI of France.

Treaty of Northampton, Joan was married on 17 July 1328 (at seven years of age) to David II of Scotland at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

1352 William Douglas, knight of Liddesdale, and the Flower of Chivalry, engaged to serve Edward the 3rd, with free passage to English, thru his lands in Scotland. Anderson v. 2/ p.43.

1528 title in the Peerage of Scotland created on 17 July for Henry Stewart, Lord Methven. Son of Lord Avandale, brother of Lord Ochiltree. Title bestowed by step son James 5th. As step father in law Henry had married Margaret Tudor, the Queen Dowager. Margaret and Henry’s son, the Master of Meffen, was listed as ‘uterine brother to the King’. The Master of Methven (Meffen) died at the Battle of Pinkie, and had a daughter, Dorthea Stewart, before 1547, who married William Ruthven 1st Earl of Gowrie, 4th Lord Ruthven. Dorthea and Willam had William (Ruffin) Ruthven about 1582 in Perth, Scotland. William fled Scotland in 1600 and England by 1603, ahead of James 6th. William is supposed to have made it to the ‘plantations’ of vvrginia. By 1640(?) William Ruffin (or a son by the same name) married Jewry Had à

Robert Ruffin 1646-1694 married Elizabeth Prime Had à Elizabeth Ruffin 1693-1722 married William Kinchin hadà Martha Kinchin married 1730 Thomas Jarrett hadà

John Jared married 1757 Hannah Whitaker had à   Captain William Jared married 1792 Elizabeth Ralston had à       Naomi Jared 7M married 1815 John Simmons 7F and 7M, had à

Joseph Pickens Simmons 6F (1829 -1897 buried in Ada, Oklahoma) and Frances Virginia Mason 6M had à   Mary Elizabeth Simmons 5M and Austin Choate 5F.

James V’s Renaissance Scotland – 1528. James V escapes from Douglas control and plays a key role in introducing Renaissance ideas to Scotland. Video: Scotland’s History Top Ten. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/the_stewarts/james_v_renaissance_scotland/

1537 Janet Douglas, Lady Glammus, burnt at the stake on Castehill of Edinburgh, on the charge of conspiring the death of the king James 5th by poison, (i.e. witchhunt) and treasonably assisted her brothers Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus and Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich, after they were declared traitors. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 46.  Glamis castle.

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1548 Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven Master of Arltillery during siege of Haddington, after placing of guns, the French officer D’Essé ordered the guns to be withdrawn. Methven took the Scottish and French guns to Edinburgh and Leith, and ordered their repair. Sieges of Haddington (1548–1550). As the Master of the Scottish Artillery, Lord Methven, organised guns to be brought from the siege of Broughty Castle in June 1548. Mary of Guise came to view the progress of the siege on 9 July 1548 and her party came in range of the English guns. Sixteen of her entourage were killed around her and she was terror-stricken. At this time the English inside were countermining (diggine) against the French and Scottish siegeworks. A Scots force joined the French troops on 16 July to storm the town but were driven away by cannon fire. While d’Essé kept the camp. D’Essé made his feelings known to Arran; that an earlier decisive assault before the English had time to entrench would have been the best action.  www.flickr.com

1569 sometime in July. RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, provost of Perth, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie, voted against the (Mary Stewart) Queen’s divorce from Bothwell (Reg. P. C. Scotl. ii. 8). Perth Before the Reformation Showing the Ancient City Wall

1 Southgate or South Street Port     2 Carmelite or WHITEFRIARS Monastery

3 Dominican o blackfriars Monastery     4 Franciscan or greyfriars Monastery

5 St. Leonard’s Religious House           6 Spey or Spy Tower

7 South Port   8 Highgate or High Street Port 9 The Ancient castle of Perth

10 Gowrie House   11 The Church of St. John 12 The Tolbooth

13 Bridge across the Tay Foot of High Street 14 Road from St John’s Church to the Castle 15 Carthusian Monastery or Charterhouse  www.electricscotland.com

1689 Killiecrankie. Bonnie Dundee, (adherent to James 7th Stewart King of Scots, Duke of York) was declared an outlaw and rebel (by William 3rd and Mary). Dundee raised the Highlands, with an army of 2500 men, and 300 Irish. Dundee took the post at the celebrated pass at Killiecrankie, to battle with General Mackay. Dundee delayed attack until sunset, and the Highlanders rushed down like furies, with a fierce rapid rout.  Dundee was mortally wounded. Colonel Cannon succeeded Dundee in command, but was not popular nor able. So the battle of Killicrankie was won (for James), but the war (for James) was lost. Tytler’s Britannica 218.

Map showing the location of the battle of Killiecrankie, with the crossed swords and 1689 on the River Tay flowing into the firth of Tay at the bottom of the map, next to Dundee (Viscount Dundee’s lordship). The pink dotted line marks part of Bonnie Prince Charlies (1745 to 1746) flight from George 2nd army. Also shown are Grampian Mountains, Loch Rannoch, Loch Lydoch, River Lyon, Loch Tay, in Perth and Forfar, River Isla, Stream Esk, Lake Ericht, Rbver Tummel, Tippermuir, Ben Lawers.

1695 The Bank of Scotland was established by the Scottish government to support Scottish business, and was prohibited from lending to the government without parliamentary approval. The founding Act granted the bank a monopoly on public banking in Scotland for 21 years, permitted the bank’s directors to raise a nominal capital of £1,200,000 pound Scots (£100,000 pound sterling), gave the Proprietors (shareholders) limited liability, and in the final clause (repealed only in 1920) made all foreign-born Proprietors naturalised Scotsmen “to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever”.

In 1826, there was outrage in Scotland at the attempt of the United Kingdom Parliament to prevent the production of banknotes of less than five pounds face value. Sir Walter Scott wrote a series of letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal under the pseudonym “Malachi Malagrowther” which provoked such a response that the government was forced to relent and allow the Scottish banks to continue printing £1 notes. For this reason Sir Walter still appears on all Bank of Scotland notes.

Sir Walter Scott, The Tercentenary Series £50 note (1995). On August 22nd and 23rd 1877, Wilford Woodruff, later reported that three knights, among others, Sir Walter Scott ‘called upon me, as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple at St. George, two consecutive nights, and demanded at my hands that I should go forth and attend to the ordinances of the House of God for them.’ A high honor indeed!

1790 Adam Smith, died in Edinburgh. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, Smith was a leading exponenent of free-market economics, arguing that the “invisible hand” of self-interest guides the most efficient use of resources in an economy, and that unbridled market forces would bring about a balanced society. Adam Smith. .bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/onthisday/july/17

1912 Arthur Gordon “Art” Linkletter (July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was born Gordon Arthur Kelly in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and adopted by Mary (née Metzler) and Fulton John Linkletter, an evangelical preacher. [Art was the host of House Party, CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, NBC radio and TV for 19 years. Linklater is a local Orkney name derived from the Old Norse. Orkney Islands were annexed to the Scottish Crown in 1472, following the failed payment of a dowry for James III’s bride, Margaret of Denmark. Linklater is located somewhere on South Roaldshay Island on the Pentland Firth.

1935 Donald McNichol Sutherland, (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor. Scots descent.

1961 Greyfriars Bobby about 19th century Edinburgh involving a dog that came to be known as Greyfriars Bobby (400 years earlier Greyfriars was a monastery in Perth).

A little Skye Terrier named Bobby is the pet of a Scottish farm hand. Auld Jock travels to Edinburgh, and Bobby follows him. Auld Jock dies in poverty and is buried in Greyfriar’s Kirkyard. Bobby returns to Auld Jock’s grave every night to sleep. The children of Edinburgh contribute their pennies for Bobby’s license. Bobby is declared a Freeman of the City and adopted by the populace of Edinburgh. Scottish Terrier. www.fordogtrainers.com

Greyfriars’ Churchyard. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.96.

1969 Apollo 11 half way to the moon.  Artist’s impression of Luna 15, Soviet probe, also on its way to crash on the moon.

2016 Engaged.  James Matthews, financier, professional racing driver and heir to the Scottish title of Laird of Glen Affric, engaged to Pippa Middleton, sister of Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William. The Middleton girls were dubbed “the Wisteria Sisters”: “highly decorative, terribly fragrant and with a ferocious ability to climb”, according to the Daily Mail. Englefield (United Kingdom) (AFP)

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