July 5 522 circa The residence of King Arthur in Strathclyde as Penryn Ryoneth; and as the British Penryn supposes a promontory with some circumstance reduplicating its height, Chalmers thinks this intimation clearly points to Alcluid as one of the seats of Arthur’s authority. The point of Cardross was the ‘Rhyn-Ryoneth’, and the Castle of Dumbarton the Pen-Rhyn-Ryoneth of the ancient British Triads.” Confirming this, the Welsh Traiads say that St. Mungo (Kentigern) – based in Glasgow – was King Arthur’s chief bishop at his base of Pen Rhionydd; obviously then, the capital Dumbarton.

templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/strathclyde/arthur.htm

Map of 1285 Scotland showing the location of Strathclyde along the River Clyde valley in west Scotland. Associated with Kyle, Ayr, Cunningham, Falkirk, Lennox Stirling, Edinburgh, and BUte.

1497 sometime in, Battle of Drumchatt – The Clan Mackenzie and the Clan Munro defeated the Clan MacDonald of Lochalsh at Drumchatt (Druimchat) or “the Cat’s Back”.

Munro Crest: An eagle perching Proper. Motto: DREAD GOD.
Badge: common club moss Chief: Hector W. Munro of Foulis Seat: Foulis Castle, Ross-shire.

1530 Border reiver Sir John Armstrong, folk-hero Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie, son of the Laird of Mangerton; and 50 of his men were hanged for blackmail at Caerlanrig, Whithaugh, by King James V, after responding to request of safe conduct to muster homage to the King.

• Armstrong17th 2Warren2Mehew2Luther2Choate zoe    Armstrong burnt Netherby in Cumberland in 1527, in return for which William Dacre, 3^rd Baron Dacre burnt him out at Canonbie in 1528. Arson being the typical means of vengeance or assault, in those uncivil violent centuries.

Tradition records that near this spot were buried John Armstrong of Gilnoickie and a number of his personal followers who were treacherously taken and executed at Carlanrigg by order of King James the V, during his expedition to pacify the borders in July 1530.

‘John murdered was at carlanrigg,

and his gallant companie,

But Scotland’s heart wae ne’er sae wae,

to see sae mony brave men die.’ Old Ballad. This stone erected September 1897.

www.digital.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15885/transcript/1

Armstrong was tricked into attending a royal hunt only to be seized on his arrival. He faced the king, [James 5th]  and volubly remonstrated with him that he had “asked grace at a graceless face”. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/onthisday/july/5

1548 Henry Stewart, 1^st Lord Methven Master of Artillery during Sieges of Haddington, east Lothian, (1548–1550) yoked 240 oxen and began to drag the guns through his and Lord Ruthven’s lands. At Haddington, he reported on the 5 July; “all nycht all our greit artallzery lawborit and has dong the tolbutht and reft an pece that lay betuix it and the kirk of the Freyris.” On 5 July Methven gave Mary of Guise an optimistic report of the damage caused to the English defenses by his guns. His fire had demolished the Tollbooth within the town, and he had advanced trenches towards the ramparts. Siege of Haddington, English Earth and Timber Fortress. copyright of Andrew Spratt.

Methven was Uncle to Ann Stewart who married Andrew Millar. Methven was ancestor of the William Ruthven who fled over the seas, ancestor of the Ruffins, Kinchen, Jared, and Simmons.

1560 – Treaty of Edinburgh   England, Scotland, France: concludes Siege of Leith, attempts to end Auld Alliance

1581 John Lindsay of Balcarres (1552–1598), was appointed a lord of session under the title Lord Menmuir, secretary of state in Scotland, In 1587 he was employed in framing several acts relating to the constitution of parliament. In April 1588, and again in April 1589, he was appointed one of a commission to inquire into disorders in the University of St Andrews. In November 1589 he began to sit as a member of the privy council.  Balcarres Tower. village of Colinsburgh, in the East Neuk of Fife, eastern Scotland. www.geograph.org.uk

1643 Battle of Lansdowne (or Lansdown) fought near Bath.

2006 VICTORIA CROSS M/SHEET FDC WITH THE BATTLE OF LANSDOWN HILL SHS

1745 July 5 PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART Set sail for Scotland (ib.).

1814 Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814 (at least for a brief time).    Political enemies blamed Thomas Cochrane, who profited nothing. Lord Cochrane expelled from Parliament and jailed.

My take is that the Lord God intervened in the War of 1812 (also called America’s Second War of Independence) to keep Britain’s undisputedly best living combat sea captain, Lord Cochrane, in London, away from the invasion of the Chesapeake and Mississippi river systems, where Cochrane’s skills, experience, and bravery, could have changed the course of the entire war in the North American station.

A view of the elegant pillared entrance to the old Stock Exchange in Capel Court, built by James Peacock in 1801-1802. In the foreground groups of jobbers or brokers discuss their business. Engraved by Archelaus Cruse (1806-1861) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London.

1801 David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” by U.S. Navy tradition. His mother was scots descent.

1937. At age 11, Farragut served under Commodore David Porter, on the frigate Essex in the War of 1812. At age 60, Farragut’s fleet captured New Orleans. The Admiral Porter on the stamp is Farragut’s foster brother, and son of David.

1820, William Rankine, the engineer and physicist, was born. He devised the “Rankine Cycle”, a theoretical ideal process for the operation of turbines and steam engines, in which a condensing vapour is the working fluid. He served as the first President of the Institute of Engineers in Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/onthisday/july/5

1940. 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 [United States] never had need to repent of it. we ferried these precious weapons [American rifles and ammo] 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.

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

1996 Dolly the Sheep born. Died 14t h February 2003. University of Edinburgh, The Roslin Institute cloned the first sheep (and first mammal). ‘Dolly the Sheep’ was cloned using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer.

http://www.roslin.ed.ac.uk/public-interest/dolly-the-sheep/a-life-of-dolly/

2011 Scrooge (fictional clan McDuck).

2012

Donald Trump gets ready to open a £100m Menie Estate golf course alongside Colin Montgomerie. The Full Monty – Former Ryder Cup European team captain Colin Montgomerie is the star chosen by Trump to have a swing at the new course. Aberdeen. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/donald-trump-opens-his-100m-menie-1166474#vdmf8rlc8XwfPCbA.99

Great Grandson of Alexander MacLeod, a crofter and fisherman, was born 10 May 1830 in Stornoway, Ross, Scotland.

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