June 10 White Rose Day is celebrated on 10 June the anniversary of the birth of the Old Pretender in 1688. The emblem of the Jacobites is the White Rose of York. So someone claimed. His father [James 7th of Scotland, 2nd of England, Duke of York] was the name sake for New York City.

1138 Battle of Clitheroe, Lancashire. English knights routed by David I’s knights. These images are typical, although dating 6 decades earlier.  900th Death Anniversary of William the Conqueror. 1987 Civil War between Matilda and Stephen. www.philatelia.net/

1215 Magna Charta With the support of Prince Louis the French Heir and of King Alexander II of the Scots, Barons entered London in force on 10 June 1215. One of only 4 surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text, Cotton MS. Augustus II. 106, property of the British Library.

1338 William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ordered his army to withdraw from Dunbar castle, leaving Lady “Black Agnes,” Countess-consort Dunbar and March, in sole possession of her castle. She is remembered in a ballad which attributes these words to Montague: “Cam I early, cam I late, I found Agnes at the gate.”  1914 Map Ordnance survey of Scotland with Dunbar, East Lothian, in the lower center on the North Sea coast.

1559 letter by Archibald Campbell, 5th earl of Argyll and Lord James Stewart, commendator of St Andrews, to John Graham, 4th earl of Menteith, Patrick, 3rd Lord Ruthven, Sir William Murray, 10th laird of Tullibardine and Colin Campbell of Glenorchy 10th June 1559, St Andrews To my Lordis Menteith, Rythwen, Lardis of Tylibairn and Glenurquhay.

My Lordis efter amist hartly commendatioun this is to certifye ye that my Lorde of Sanctandrews is cummyng heir this Setterday to supper and intendis as we ar informit to bring in ane power of Franche men sa to mak impediment to sic thingis as we wald sett fordwart to the glory of God. For the quhilk and uther causis we maist effectuslie requeist ye to cum to ws with all possible diligens wele accumpaignit sua that we may be hable togidder… of the adversayris to perfourn sic thingis as ye sall k… guid to be doyn at our meitingis. To the quhilk tym we refer all uther thingis prayand the Almychtie God preserve your Lords. As Sanctandrews this Setterday the tenth of Junii. Be yowris at powar. [PS] Prayand ye to be varay circumspect in your fordwart cummyng and walk warlye.  Katherine Ruthven Main Page Lady Glenorchy

1560 Queen regent Mary of Guise (1538–1542) died at castle of Edinburgh. [TG29-82] The siege of Leith 1559-1560 was a conflict between the Protestant Scottish (backed by English forces, sent by the new Queen Elizabeth) and Catholic Mary of Guise (backed by French Catholic forces), which ended with the natural death of Mary of Guise and the creation of the Treaty of Edinburgh. The Treaty brought about the withdrawal of the French troops from Scotland and the shrinkage of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. Leith is the suburb port of Edinburgh. Fresh forces of 12,000 Scots arrived and the French position looked impossible and starvation faced the defenders. Tytler’s Britannica.

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1566 Knox’s Historie [of the Reformation – tells of the death of Elizabeth Millar (nee Lockhart)’s father, Alexander Lockhart, at the siege of Leith: [1559-1560]

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‘The greatest damage that either English or Scots received after that day, was the slaughter of two gentlemen, the one Master of Household to my Lord James, Robert Colville of Cleith, Clan Colville.

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The other was Alexander Lockhart, brother to [Johne Lockhart] the Laird of Barr, who rashly discovered himself in the trenches, was shot in the head, and immediately thereafter departed this life.’

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Tytler’s Britannica 151.

The Siege of Leith, the port of Edinburgh, and Scotland’s access to the Atlantic Ocean, and loss of Alexander Lockhart, brother of the Laird of Bar, saw the slaughter continue as defeat stared in the eyes of the French. This is the turning point in British history. Not only is it the end of the Auld Alliance with France and the completion of the Reformation in Scotland. It is the beginning of the United Kingdom.

Alexander Lockhart (d 1560) (had Elizabeth, who married Andrew Millar 2nd had Andrew Millar 3rd Had Robert Miller (1st, 2nd, 3rd) had Annie Miller (1762-1843) married Robert Simmons had John had Joseph Pickens Simmons (1829-1897) had Mary Elizabeth Simmons (d. 1947) married Austin Choate and had Irvan Choate (1901-1972) had 14 grandchildren and 65 great grandchildren (as of 2013).

1688 – Mary, Queen of England, and wife of James 2nd King of England, was delivered of a male child, Prince of Wales (TG54-314.) James Francis Edward Stuart (“The Old Pretender”), English-born claimant to the British throne (d. 1766). The male birth, assured a Roman Catholic heir, and began the Glorious Revolution of 1688, also called the Revolution of 1688, to overthrow of King James II of England (7th of Scotland and 2nd of Ireland) by November 5th 1688 by a union of English Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder 3rd of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William 3rd of England (age 38) together with his wife princess Mary II of England (age 26), one of King James’ 2nd protestant daughters. Wikipedia

1697 – Paisley Witch Trials, six were hanged and then burnt on the Gallow Green in Paisley on 10 June 1697, the last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe. The jury, confronted by a threat from the prosecutor that if they acquitted the defendants they would be “accessory to all the blasphemies, apostacies, murders, tortures, and seductions, etc., whereof those enemies of heaven and earth shall hereafter be guilty when they get out”, found all seven of the accused guilty. 13 years later, In

1709, Robert Miller of Glasgow and Paisley, was translated to the First Charge of Abbey at Paisley. The church there, dedicated to St. Mirin and built over the saint’s tomb, had been a place of pilgrimage from very early times; the name Paisley is a corruption of [59 YYMA] ‘basilica.’ In 1163, Walter, the first High Steward of Scotland, founded at Renfrew a Cluniac Priory with monks from Much Wenlock in his native Shropshire; in 1169 Walter transferred the community to Paisley and granted them St. Mirin’s church. Other saints especially revered there were St. Mary, St. James the patron of Renfrew, and St. Milburga of Much Wenlock.

In earlier centuries, Paisley Abbey had been the church of the Stewarts. Here lie buried Marjorie, daughter of Robert the Bruce and mother of Robert II Stewart, which Marjorie or Margaret died from a fall from a horse, while pregnant with Robert 2nd. Also buried were the queens of Roberts II and III; and possibly Robert III himself.

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In 1561, after an onslaught by the Reformers, the abbey’s transeptual tower fell, destroying much of the choir; following the time of the Reformation only the nave and one chapel were maintained. The present church is largely a 20th century structure, but very early sculptures showing scenes from the life of St. Mirin are mounted in the wall below the northeast window.

1710 – James Short, born. Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)

1719 Battle of Glen Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland on 10 June 1719, between British government troops and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, resulting in a victory for the government forces. It was the last close engagement of British and foreign troops on mainland Great Britain. The only rising to be extinguished by a single military action and is sometimes known as the Nineteen. Wikipedia

The Battle of Glenshiel 1719 by Peter Tillemans (1719)

  • Three of the Jacobite commanders, Lord George Murray, William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth, and Robert Roy MacGregor, were all badly wounded. John Cameron of Lochiel, however, after hiding for a time in the Highlands, made his way back into exile in France. George Keith, chief of Clan Keith and the last Earl Marischal, fled into exile in Prussia, where his brother Francis Keith wrote a narration of the battle. In spite of a later pardon, Keith never returned to Great Britain and became the Prussian ambassador to France and later to Spain. The 274 Spanish prisoners were reunited with their comrades in Edinburgh and by October, negotiations allowed their return to Spain.

On the British government side, casualties were lighter; George Munro of Culcairn was wounded in the legs by musket shot, but survived. A Government expedition under Lord Cobham was launched against the coast of Spain in October 1719 which succeeded in capturing Vigo. Wikipedia

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1746 June 10-12. The Prince and O’Neil went to Rossinish by land. and remained three days, until they learned that the boats of the militia were patrolling the place. Donald Macleod and O’Sullivan, hearing of this. came in a boat, brought them away and steered for Coradale (I. 268). Publications OF THE SCOTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXIII, Pg 66 (51)  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 to west, Orkneys to north.

1750 [Robert Miller III]’This sermon Delivered at Dorchester 10th June 1750.’ manuscript sermons, yellowed but still entirely legible, in the possession of Col. Francis Pickens Miller in 1970, was delivered before leaving Scotland. 83 YYMA

1755 Alexandria Virginia. General Braddock marched out with the remaining troops and wagons.

1933 June 10 Howard W. Hunter (clan Hunter), and Claire were married for time and eternity in the Salt Lake Temple, and Howard becomes 14th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1994. The Hunters are from Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland. President Howard W. Hunter: The Lord’s “Good and Faithful Servant” Ensign Apr 1995.

1941 Patrol sloop “PINTAIL” was mined off the Humber escorting Thames/Forth coastal convoy FN477. Monthly Loss Summary

34 British, Allied and neutral ships of 86,000 tons in UK waters

Atomic Bomb – The report on nuclear research by the Maud Committee led to the setting up of a development programme by Imperial Chemical Industries. Code named ‘Tube Alloys’, it oversaw both atomic bomb and reactor work. www.naval-history

 

2015 http://www.deseretnews.com/lds-church-news

Elder Holland visits Scotland and England

During his travels, Elder Holland addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords at the UK Parliament on Wednesday, June 10. (Please see Church News, June 14, p. 11.)

2016 Established in 2004, Wasatch & District Pipe Band, is a competitive and performing Bagpipe Band based out of Bountiful, Utah. Wearing the MacTavish tartan, our band performs all over Northern Utah, and competes in the Western US, Canada, the United Kingdom, and we have attended the World Pipe Band Championships held in Glasgow Scotland.

Wasatch & District Pipe Band play at Utah Scottish Festival (Thanksgiving Point)

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