July 3 – 72 Thomas the Apostle feast day.

 

525 circa. Dumbarton. The History of Dumbartonshire by Joseph Irving also mentions King Arthur. Mentioning that Al Cluith (Dumbarton) was the base of King Arthur, he goes on to explain Al Cluith “appears to have borne the name ‘Castrum Arthuri’. In a Parliamentary record of the reign of David II, giving a curious detail of the king’s rents and profits in Dumbartonshire, mention is made of the ‘redditum assize Castri Arthuri’ and, as a further evidence of the presence of Arthur in ancient Dumbarton, in the Welsh Triads, as quoted by Owen in his Dictionary, it is said ‘Arthur ynbeneteyrnedd yn Mhenryn Rhionydd yn y gogledd’ [Arthur, a supreme of princes at the promontory of Rhionyth, in the north.]

http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/strathclyde/arthur.htm

Map of 11th century Scotland with Dumbarton, Lennox, on the River Clyde as it pours into the Firth of Clyde. Near by are Renfrew, Glasgow, Carron, Stirling, Menteith, Loch Lomaond, Loch Long, Bute, and Cowal.

1375 James Blair of that ilk, obtained charter from Robert 2nd, confirming charter of lands of Hartwood in Dumfries shire. Anderson v. 1/p.319

1445 – James, the eldest son, was created a lord of parliament by royal charter, on July 3, 1445, under the title of Lord Hamilton of Cadyow. www.electricscotland.com

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Map of 1900 Scotland showing the Avon River flowing from southwest to north into the River Clyde. Hamilton, a parish in Lanarkshire, place is shown near the fall. The district of Hamilton was anciently named Cadyou, a royal possession of Alexander III, spelled Cadohow. Under Bruce, the property fell to the Hamilton family, who held it as recently as 1836.

1449 James II marries Queen consort Mary of Guelders at Holyrood Abbey. Begins reign as Queen.

Mary of GUelders reign 3 July 1449 – 3 August 1460, born 1434 died 1 December 1463. The couple had 7 children; Son stillborn 19 may 1450. James III of Scotland (1451–1488).

Alexander Stewart, III Duke of Albany (c. 1454 – 1485).

David Stewart, Earl of Moray (c. 1456 – 1457. He was created Earl of Moray on 12 February 1456.

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Mar and Garioch (c. 1459 – 1479).

Princess Margaret of Scotland. Married William Crichton, 3rd Lord Crichton of Auchingoul.

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She became the mother of Margaret Crichton and mother-in-law of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, father of Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes, of the Lords of the Congregation. Previously, Knox and Kircaldy gave a list of members of the Congregation who expelled the troops of Mary of Guise from Perth in June 1559 and moved on Edinburgh – Rothes was there.

Princess Mary of Scotland (May 1453-May 1488). Married first Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran and secondly James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton. She became the mother of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran.

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1495 pretender Perkin Warbeck landed at Deal in Kent, meeting resistance, fled to Scotland. well received by James IV of Scotland, As Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain were negotiating an alliance with Henry VII, James IV knew that Spain would help him in his struggles with England, in order to prevent the situation escalating into war with France. Spanish ambassadors arrived in Edinburgh, and later Pedro de Ayala was established as a resident ambassador during the crisis. Warbeck was permitted to marry James’s distant cousin, Lady Catherine Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. The marriage was celebrated in Edinburgh with a tournament. James gave Warbeck clothes for the wedding and armour covered with purple silk. Warbeck claimed to be child of the King of York, and the brother in law of Henry 7th who married the Princess of York. Within a decade James 4th would be the son in law of Henry 7th.

1548 – Sieges of Haddington (1548–1550). Began. The Master of the Scottish Artillery, Lord Methven, organized guns to be brought from the siege of Broughty Castle in June 1548. These guns were shipped to Aberlady the nearest haven on the Forth. The great Scottish gun ‘thrawinmouth’ from Dunbar Castle was also deployed and the cannons from Broughty were placed on 3 July 1548.

1558 When Mons Meg, was fired on 3 July 1558, workmen were paid to find and retrieve the shot from Wardie Mure, near the River Forth. The salute marked the solemnization of the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to the French Dauphin

Mons Meg with its 20″ (50 centimeter) caliber cannon balls.

1582 James Crichton of Eliock, died the original “admirable Crichton”, (19 August 1560 – 3 July 1582), was a Scottish polymath died in a brawl in Mantua. Soldier, scholar, poet and athlete, he was a graduate of St Andrews University and a tutor of King James VI.

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1644 – Scots army achieves preponderance in field at Marston Moor. (TG42-382)

1728 Robert Adam, the Scottish architect, furniture and interior designer, was born. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/onthisday/july/3

1746 July 3. Remained in the byre until evening,1 when, parting from the brothers and the boatmen, the Prince walked all night, attended by Malcolm MacLeod, towards Strath, MacKinnon’s country, the Prince passing as Lewie Caw, MacLeod’s servant (I. 134). Lt.-Col. Alexander MacDonald, Portree, a great-grand-nephew of Malcolm MacLeod and of Mrs. John MacKinnon, informs me that the family tradition is that the Prince went round to the west to avoid Portree and then turned south. To avoid Sligachan, then occupied by the enemy, he skirted the very top of the loch of that name, and reached Elgol by the circuitous route of Strath Mohr. Publications OF THE SCOTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXIII, Pg 70 (5), April 1897 SUPPLEMENT LYON IN MOURNING PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART ITINERARY AND MAP. Ed.W. B. BLAIKIE, from Narrative of Lord MacLeod, son of the Earl of Cromarty.

Lewis and Orkneys

1755 Battle of Monongahela River 1755 – Braddock’s Defeat, Fort Duquesne, western Pennsylvania Colony. The French and Indian War also known as the Seven Year War (1757 to 1762). Deer Lick Camp; Sir John Saint Clair urged that the army should await Dunbar’s contingent. Short of supplies; heavy rain had destroyed much of the flour.

1801 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald three French ships of the line under Admiral Charles-Alexandre Linois captured him. Exchanged and feed.

1816 Bonaparte rdached Rochefort, but is unable to go to sea and America.Tytler’s Britannica 276.

1883 Clyde shipyards suffered their worst accident when the SS Daphne capsized at her launch, drowning 195 workers. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/onthisday/july/3

1890 Idaho statehood. Scottish place names (Wikipedia)-

Aberdeen, Drummond, McCammon, Mackay, Wallace

Great seal of Idaho. Esto Perpetux.

 

  1. North Atlantic. ‘Their Finest Hour, The Fall of France, Back to France.’ Generations of Government gun control and gun bans had disarmed the homefronts of Poles, and disarmed the homefronts of neutral Belgians and Dutch, and disarmed the homefronts of French, Scots, and English. Relying, as their governments promised and they falsely supposed on their police and armies. All were to pay very dearly for such short sightedness, under rape, riot, and ruin. Terrible and crushing evils would be unleashed on a defenseless, helpless and self unarmed populace. The shock of Nazi blitzkrieg devastated Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France. Next up was Great Britain. Churchill (clan Montgomery) wrote –
  • They never had need to repent of it. we ferried these precious weapons safely across the Atlantic during July, and they formed not only a material gain, but an important factor in all calculations made by friend or foe about invasion.

600 Freight cars loaded with American guns, field guns, machine guns, ammo, shells, cartridges, are on a dozen British merchant Marine ships crossing the Atlantic, zigzagging to avoid Nazi submarines.

1993 The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The Fictional clan McDuck is a fictional family in the style of a Scottish clan, from which a great number of Walt Disney Company’s comic book characters held their origin.

Original Art by Don Rosa Upon the death of his father, Scrooge McDuck became Laird of the Fictional clan McDuck and owner of the castle and its lands. Scrooge had supported the castle financially for many years prior, enabling the McDuck family to reoccupy it in 1885.

1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.

2001 Billy Liddell, the Scottish international footballer, died. World cup player in 1847 and 1955. Sports figures are prominent in dates calculated by the BBC, or Wikipedia. Football was discussed in Henry Fieldings’ Tom Jones, published circa 1747, and Futball and golf, were banned by the Scots’ parliament of circa 1495, and then legalized in the next parliament.   Wikipedia says the Football Act of 1424 banned it until 1906, but this is contradicted by Scott.

2003 At his last public performance, before singing “Ring of Fire”, Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage: The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. Johnny Cash, John R. with Patrick Carr. (1997) Johnny Cash, the Autobiography. Harper Collins. p. 3.

Descends from the Cash of Fife, and Malcolm 1

2012 Trump prepares to open Scottish course Time for tee – Trump, who has plans to build an extended $1 billion resort on the east coast of Scotland, hits the course’s first ever shot. Aberdeen.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120710023022-time-for-tee-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg Great Grandson of Alexander MacLeod, a crofter and fisherman, was born 10 May 1830 in Stornoway, Ross, Scotland.

 

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