June 4 398 Stilicho sent aid to Roman governors in Britain to repel the Caledonians. Sometime this year. Tytler’s History of Scotland and Britannica 4.

564 Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6^th century

1341 Inverbervie. David Bruce, age 18, King of Scots, returns to his dominions after exile for 9 years in a foreign land (France). Tytler’s Britannica.

1799 Map with Bervie on the coast. Inver means Mouth of the River. A small harbor is at the mouth of the river Bervie and was the site where King David was shipwrecked in 1341. Also shown is Kincardine Shire, Stonehaven, Johns Haven, Montrose, Cleva, Angus, Patrick Cortachy, Brechin, Glenhervie, Ferdun, Fettercairn, St. Sirus,

1400 Archibald Douglas 4^th earl Douglas. King Robert appointed him Keeper of Edinburgh Castle for life, on a pension of 200 merks a year. Douglas 1036 2Stewart 2Ruthven 2Kinchin 2Jared 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Montgomberie 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Hamilton 2Stewart 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Carlyle 2Semple 2Montgomery 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate

A 1902 map of Edinburgh showing ‘Castle’ Rock in the middle overlooking old town. Holyrood Palace is to the east (right), with Queen’s Park arid Abbey. Princess and Water of Leith to the west (left).

A late-16th-century depiction of the castle, from Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates orbis terrarum, showing David’s Tower at the centre. Notice the shape had not changed between centuries.

1559 Wishart and Erskine attend conference at St. Andrews, with Argyle, and Lord James Stewart. Knox begins public exposure of church error. A popular insurrection wrecks the Dominican and Franciscan monasteries.

St. Andrews Castle. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P. 165

1563 Parliament at Edinburgh. Wishart and others decide Act of Oblivion, for offences committed from the 6^th March 1558 to 1^st September 1560.

1565 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley arrives from England. A concerned English Privy Council debated the perils of the intended marriage with Mary Queen of Scots. One of their resolutions was to relax the displeasure shown to Lady Catherine Grey, another rival to Mary Stuart for the English throne. Mary sent John Hay, Commendator of Balmerino, to speak to Elizabeth (Queen of the English), and Elizabeth demanded Darnley’s return, and gave John Hay plainly to understand her small satisfaction.

Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley. In the Possession of the Duke of Devonshire, Hardwick.

Miniatures of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Medal of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley. British Museum.

Mary marries Lord Darnley – 1565.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/the_reformation/mary_marries_lord_darnley/

1647 Joyce, with little ceremony, intruded himself, armed with his pistols, into the King’s Charles 1^st sleeping apartment, and informed his Majesty that he must please to attend him. “Where is your commission?” said the King. “Yonder it is,” answered the rude soldier, pointing to his troop of fifty horse, which, by the early dawning, was seen drawn up in the courtyard of the place. — “It is written in legible (TG45-50) characters,” replied Charles 1^st. Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles, the Triple Portrait by Anthony van Dyck

1723 – Adam Smith born. Scottish economist (d. 1790) The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. ANDREW MILLAR VI, cousin to Robert Miller 3^rd of South Carolina.

Adam Smith. born to Margaret Douglas at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. His father, also named Adam Smith,

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, publisher W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, surviving firm of A. Millar, deceased.

• Douglas 1036 2Stewart 2Ruthven 2Kinchin 2Jared 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Montgomberie 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Hamilton 2Stewart 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – Douglas 2Carlyle 2Semple 2Montgomery 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand and A. Kincaid and J. bell in Edinburgh. MDCCLIX.

1744 – Patrick Ferguson, born. Scottish officer in the British Army and rifle designer (d. 1780)

1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.

1781 Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and dragoons, raid Charlottesville, Virginia attempting to capture Gov. Thomas Jefferson [Scots descent] and the Virginia legislature.  Jefferson continually checked Charlottesville with his telescope for signs of the British. By the time Jefferson finally saw them, cavalry were already on Monticello’s lawn. Jefferson quickly mounted his horse and escaped, successfully eluding the British in the woods. Charles Cochrane (b 12.01.1749, d 18.10.1781, British Major) 2^nd in command to Tarleton, British commander.

Tarleton’s Cavalry in a later fight (1814 engraving)

1833 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 96. this is the most expedient in me, that my word should go forth unto the children of men, for the purpose of subduing the hearts of the children of men for your good. Even so. Amen.

1834 Captain Ernest Gray Lambton Cochrane RN (High Sheriff, Co. Donegal) b. 4 Jun 1834, d. 2 Feb 1911 m. 1. Adelaide Blackall 2. Elizabeth Frances Maria Katherine Doherty.

1916 Macbeth (1916 film), directed by John Emerson. cinematography by Victor Fleming.

1940 26th May-4th June – Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation ‘Dynamo’)

1940 Washington District of Columbia United States. ‘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 Czechs and Slovaks 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 – p. 142.

• In his excellent book about American supplies Mr. Stettinius says; ‘Since every hour counted, it was decided that the Army should sell (for 37 million dollars) everything on the list to one concern which could in turn resell immediately to the British and French.’

Backstory, the British evacuation of Dunkirk (May June 1940) and other evacuations from Brest, Cherbourg, St. Malo, and St. Nazaire, left all their 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).

1942 Lofton R. Henderson (clan Henderson) died (born May 24, 1903). Battle of Midway, Pacific. Henderson field Guadalcanal was named for him. Navy Cross citation – The Navy Cross is presented to Lofton R. Henderson, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism as Squadron Commander of Marine Scout-Bombing Squadron TWO HUNDRED FORTY-ONE (VMSB- 241), during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. With utter disregard for his own personal safety, Major Henderson, with keen judgment and courageous aggressiveness in the face of strong enemy fighter opposition, led his squadron in an attack which contributed materially to the defeat of the enemy. He was subsequently reported as missing in action. It is believed he gallantly gave up his life in the service of his country.

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