July 7 – 1296 Robert the Bruce terms with Edward (King of Inglish [or English], later styled the first, 1st ) with treaty, called the Capitulation of Irvine.

Heraldic representation of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
© The Heraldry Society of Scotland 2004

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1307 Burgh upon Sands, Cumberland. Edward (King of Inglish) gathered army to invade Scotland, but died. On Edward’s deathbed, Edward made his son (prince later Edward 2nd) promise to never have peace with Scotland, until it is [Edward 2nd), and commanded Edward 1st body’s flesh should be boiled off the bones, and to carry the bones with the English army against the Scots. As Edward 2nd experienced Barons invade Scotland, Bruce avoided general battle, retiring into woods and fastness, and hanging on the rear of the English army in famine and distress. The Scots were armed with a spear eighteen feet long (6 yards), a sword, a battle axe in the girdle, a dagger, a steel bonnet, and a back and breast piece buckled over a tough leather jerkin. The Scots could form a square, or circle, depending on the ground. The cavalry of Scots mounted hardy little horses, carrying a bag of meal on the saddle bow, and Bruce used these to dart into England to strip it of wealth, and scourlike a whirwind across the border, before English defenses could be raised. Tytler’s Britannica 42. In later time the term ‘the whole six yards’ became a quote, and eventually morphed into the ‘whole nine yards’ the length of the tartan.

‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of famine.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

    The epitaph to Edward 1st in Westminster Abbey, London, reads “Edwardus Primus Scotorum Malleus hic est.” – “Edward the First, hammer of the Scots”.

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1380 sometime in, pestilence in Scotland. ‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1534 to 1607 to 1641. Religious persecution laws adopted at various times in these years. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, (with jurisdiction into Ireland, Scotland and British colonies of Africa, India, and Americas), enforced by execution and torture, fine and prison, confiscation and transport to the plantations (American colonies, if you weren’t already here) were, according to Edmund Burke “a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Savage, John (1869). Fenian Heroes and Martyrs. Patrick Donahoe. pp. 16. Bans on Catholics, Dissenters from the Established Church, (Nonconformists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, Covenanters, Methodists, Congregationalists, Jews, Anglicans 1650-1661, Baptists, along with slaves, felons, imbeciles. and foreigners) Ban on Catholics becoming barristers, repealed by the Relief Act of 1793. Wikipedia. Penal Laws repealed 1829.

1537 Madeleine of Valois (10 August 1520 – 7 July 1537), died, also known as Magdalene of Valois, was a French princess who became Queen of Scots as the first wife of King James V of Scotland. Madeleine was born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany (daughter of King Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany). Very frail from birth, she grew up in the warm and temperate Loire Valley region of France, rather than at Paris, as her father feared that the cold would destroy her delicate health. By age 16, she had contracted   symptoms now associated with tuberculosis. James V continued to press Francis I for Madeleine’s hand, and, Francis I granted permission to the marriage. They married on 1 January 1537 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Francis I also provided Madeleine with a very generous (and much needed) dowry, which considerably boosted the Scottish treasury. According to the marriage contract made at Blois, Madeleine renounced her and any of her heirs’ claims to the French throne. If James died first, Madeleine would retain for her lifetime assets including the Earldoms of Fife, Strathearn, Ross, and Orkney with Falkland Palace, Stirling Castle, and Dingwall Castle, with the Lordship of Galloway and Threave Castle.

Madeleine de Valois by Corneille de la Haye. On 7 July 1537, (a month before her 17th birthday), Madeleine died in her husband’s arms at Edinburgh, Scotland.

1548 Treaty of Haddington, between France and Scotland, confirming the betrothal of Mary Queen of Scots and Dauphin of France.

  1. Mary Queen of Scots, by Wierix

 

1559 John Knox became the first Protestant minister appointed in Edinburgh.

1575 – Raid of the Redeswire (1575) Last of the border skirmishes of Jedburgh. English shot arrows ((John) Foster was attended by the men of Tyndale, raised their war-cry of “To it, Tynedale!”. Scots outnumbered, surprised, but a band of the citizens of Jedburgh arrived just in time to support their countrymen, and turn the fate of the day; for most of them having fire-arms, the old English long-bow no more possessed (TG32-152) its ancient superiority. Sir George Heron of Chipchase, and other persons of condition, were (32-153) slain. Regent Morton freed prisoners without ransom, and gave tokens of respect. “Are you not well treated?” said a Scotsman to one of these liberated prisoners, “since we give you live hawks for dead herons?” This battle is known to very few. Many believe that Pinkie was the last Anglo-Scottish battle.

Map of 1402 Scotland with Jedbugh on the River Teviotdale, a tributary of River Tweed. The Red is English, Yellow Scots, white North Sea. Other sites Flodeen, Homildon Hill, River Aln, Ettrick Forest, Selkirk, Hawick, Traquair, Wark, Cheviot Hills.

1579 Lilias Ruthven (daughter of William Ruthven and Janet Halyburton) was born 1526 in Kynnard, Perth, Scotland, and died Jul 07, 1579 in Stobhall, Cargill, Perth,

U.S. President’s 10-Great Grandmother.       HRH Charles’s 12-Great Grandmother.       PM Churchill’s 11-Great Grandmother.       Lady Diana’s 11-Great Grandmother.       P.M. Cameron’s 13-Great Grandmother.       HRH Albert II’s 13-Great Grandmother.       Poss. Jamie’s 12-Great Grandmother.

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1775 Lucy Mack born Gilsum, New Hampshire, John Mack born 6 mar 1653 Inverness Scotland married in 1681 in Salisbury Massachusetts Bay Colony to Sarah Bagley, and had Ebenezer who had Solomon who had Lucy Mack who married Joseph Smith Senior, and who had Hyrum and Joseph and nine other children.

Engraving of Lucy Mack Smith, mother of two Seers, grandmother of a Seer, Great Grandmother of a Seer, also Apostles, High Priests, Evangelists, Seventies, Elders, Priests, Teachers, and Deacons.

1777 Battle of Hubbardton. New York. Brigadier Simon Fraser commanded the British,

 

1801 The Battle of Algeciras.         Bay of Gibraltar. Lord Cochrane.

1807 Treaty of Tilsit concluded, between France and Russia. Tytler’s Britannica 265.

 

1814 the novel “Waverley“, by Sir Walter Scott, was published.

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1816 The Year Without a Summer, (also known as the Poverty Year, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death ) In July 1816 “incessant rainfall” during that “wet, ungenial summer” forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday. They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Polidori to write The Vampyre. In addition, their host, Lord Byron, (Gordon clan) was inspired to write a poem, Darkness, at the same time.

1816 summer temperature anomaly with respect to 1971-2000 climatology.

Crop failures in Vermont forced the Joseph Smith Senior (wife from Mack clan Inverness) family to move to upstate New York, near Palmyra.

1852 fictional birthday for Dr. John H. Watson; (clan Watson) a character in Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Edinburgh. Watson received his fictional medical degree from the University of London in 1878, and had subsequently gone on to train as an Army surgeon. He then joined British forces in India, saw fictional service in Afghanistan, was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand (27 July 1880), and after months of recovery, was sent back to England on the troopship HMS Orontes. Watson reading bad news to Holmes in “The Five Orange Pips”. Holmes at least once exclaims, “I am lost without my Boswell.” (clan Boswell and Cochrane)/

Watson. Crest: Two hands holding the trunk of an oak tree sprouting the hands issuing out of clouds. Motto: INSPERATA FLORUIT [“It has flourished beyond expectation”]

    One hundred sixty years later, Major Mark Choate (Clan Abernethey, Cochrane, Semple, Stewart) retraces the fictional steps of Dr. Watson in Afghanistan, criss crossing throughout the country.

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Major Mark Choate in Afghanistan in 2011. U.S. Special Operations Forces.

5th from the left, in uniform.

1872 Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (creation of 19th century) born. Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC (6 July 1872 – 2 May 1955) was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth Governor-General of Australia. The second son of Walter Hore-Ruthven (1838–1921), the 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland, and Lady Caroline Annesley Gore (1848–1914), the daughter of Philip Gore, 4th Earl of Arran. He was present at the Battle of Gedaref and other operations resulting in the final defeat of the Khalifa; in the Sudan Campaign in 1898, where he was decorated with the award of Victoria Cross (V.C.) on 28 February 1899, for his actions on 22 September 1898, as a captain in the 3rd Battalion of The Highland Light Infantry. He was Commissioned a Captain to Cameron Highlanders in (1900).

Gowrie signing the declaration of War against Japan with Prime Minister John Curtin looking on.

1933 David Gaub McCullough born July 7, 1933) is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for Harry S Truman, John Adams, and the Brooklyn Bridge. McCullough has also narrated multiple documentaries, as well as the 2003 film Sea biscuit; and he hosted American Experience for twelve years. Yale 1955 with Honors in English.

1940 North Atlantic. A dozen British merchant Marine ships crossing the Atlantic, zigzagging to avoid Nazi submarines, ferrying 600 freight cars worth of American rifles (half a million), field guns, machine guns, ammo, shells, cartridges, carrying the guns from New Jersey to England. Backstory, the British evacuation of Dunkirk (May June 1940) and other evacuations from Brest, Cherbourg, St. Malo, and St. Nazaire, left all the Brits guns and equipment on the beaches of France. The United States sold a half million rifles and more to restock and rearm Scotland and England against a threatened Nazi invasion upcoming in the Battle of Britain (June to November 1940).

  • Almost immediately, quantities of “U.S. Rifle, Cal. .30, M1” were on their way across the Atlantic.
  • Winston Churchill wrote in Their Finest Hour: “When the ships from America approached our shores with their priceless arms, special trains were waiting in all ports to receive their cargoes. The Home Guard in every county, in every village, sat up through the night to receive them. … By the end of July we were an armed nation … .”

1950 Johnny Cash (Cash clan) enlisted in the United States Air Force on July 7, 1950. Millar, Anna. June 4, 2006. Celtic connection as Cash walks the line in Fife. Scotland on Sunday. Scotsman.com. Retrieved April 12, 2011. Records held by Falkland Palace show that King Malcolm awarded a large estate to the Earl of Fife in 1160 when he married the king’s niece, whose name was Cash or Cashel. A 15th -century map sited the estate between Falkland and Strathmiglo. The clan Cash originated from Malcolm’s sister, Ada, and streets in Strathmiglo and Falkland still carry the name Cash, as do Easter Cash, Wester Cash and Cash Farms. The American Cash connection came about in 1612 when mariner William Cash sailed from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, with a boatload of pilgrims. He later decided to settle in America. Cash, Roseanne (2010). Composed a memoir. Viking Press/Penguin Group. ISBN 978-1-101-45769-6. Cash of Fife, descent of Malcolm King of Scots.

1976 Hamish Linklater, (born July 7, 1976) in the series The New Adventures of Old Christine, the son of Scottish vocal coach, dialect professor, actor and theater director Kristin Linklater Orkney Isles, Scotland. His grandfather, Eric Linklater, was a noted Scottish novelist and one of the founders of the Scottish National Party. One uncle, Magnus Linklater, is a noted Scottish journalist, and another is writer and historian Andro Linklater, 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.

Arthur Gordon “Art” Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality, and host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. (clan Linklater, Orkney).

2011 Humor. On their wedding night, Ochiltree smiled at Beatrix and whispered lovingly, ‘Lassie, Ah luvs ye, an’ if Ah change mae mind, Ah’ll let ye know.’ Old Southern Humor.

2012 Donald Trump opens Scottish course, EIGHTH best in Britain.

Green fingers – The course is up to such a high standard that Golf World magazine has already ranked it as the eighth best in Britain — without a single competitive round being played on it yet. Aberdeen. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120710044455-green-fingers-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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