June 9 597 Columba Abbot of Iona Ireland and Scotland, Anglicanism.

1215 Magna Charta With the support of Prince Louis the French Heir and of King Alexander II of the Scots, Barons gather outside London.

1425 Safe Conduct. Sir William de Borthwick junior, knight, had accompanied Henry, Bishop of Aberdeen, William, Bishop of Dunblane, John, Abbot of Melrose, James, Prior of St. Andrews, John, Abbot of ‘Balmurynach’, Sir William de Hay, knight, Master Thomas de Myrton, Master Edward de Lawedre, and Master John Stenes, all as Scots’ ambassadors, with 50 attendants, setting out for the Court of Rome. The Safe-conduct is dated June 9, 1425 and is given until the following Easter. Wikipedia.

Borthwick Motto: QUI CONDUCIT. [from Latin: “He who leads”]. Chief: John Hugh Borthwick of that Ilk, 24^th Lord Borthwick Seat: Borthwick Castle, Lothian Crest: A moor’s head couped Proper wreathed Argent and Sable.

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1799 Clement Cutwell map showing the location of Borthwick (Borthouck) Cas(tle) about 6 miles southeast from Dalkeith, which is about 6 miles southeast of Edinburgh. Lothian is used for a province encompassing the Firth of Forth on the north to the Lammermuir Hills on the south, plus the Scottish Borders region. The name relates to the legendary King Loth or Lot, of Arthurian legend mentioned by the 12^th century.

1523 Master Patrick Hamilton became a member of St Leonard’s College, part of the University of St Andrews. Patrick was the second son of Sir Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil and Catherine Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Duke of Albany, second son of James II Stewart King of Scotland.

1684 Jean Cochrane marriage recorded to John Graham (1648–1689) 1^st Viscount Dundee, died Killiecrankie, 26.05.1689, also known as ‘Bluidy Clavers’ (by the Covenanters) and ‘Bonnie Dundee’ (by the Jacobites), Jean married second (sps) William Livingstone, 3^rd Viscount Kilsyth (born 29.03.1650, died 12.01.1733). JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT DUNDEE. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.142.

1695 June The Darien colony. Sometime in June. The Scottish ministers obtained permission, accordingly, to grant such privileges of trade to their country as might not be prejudicial to that of England. In June 1695, these influential persons obtained a statute from Parliament, and afterwards a charter from the crown, for creating a corporate body, or stock company, by name of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, with power to plant colonies and build forts in places [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-31] not possessed by other European nations, the consent always of the inhabitants of the places where they settled being obtained. Crops fail, famine begins.

1699 sometime in. Failed harvest, severe famine, 5-15 percent starved to death. The seven ill years was a period of national famine in Scotland in the 1690s, by four years of failed harvests (1695, 1696 and 1698–99). The period is named after the Biblical famine in Egypt predicted by Joseph ben Jacob in the Book of Genesis. The price of oatmeal, the stable Scottish cereal crop, peaked in Aberdeen in 1698, which was particularly badly hit because of its reliance on the Baltic trade,^[10] at 166.7 per cent of average prices for 1690–94.^[11] Individuals were reduced to eating grass, nettles and rotten meat in order to survive.^[12] There is considerable eye-witness material indicating that large numbers of people died from starvation.^[13] In 1698 local tacksmen claimed that during the period 1695–97 “many people were starved to death for want, both in town and country” and in 1698 reports reached Edinburgh of people found dead on the roads throughout the country.

1755 Alexandria Virginia. Braddock’s March. American Rangers and Independent Companies marched out.

1831 Sabbath. Joseph Smith the Prophet, in Kirtland, Ohio,, (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King O Scots) Doctrine and Covenants 53, Sometime in June. I would that ye should learn that he only is saved who endureth unto the end.

1898  David O. McKay, age 24, from 1951 9^th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Father from Thurso, Scotland. Elder McKay called to preside over the missionaries in Scotland. Worked in Stirling Scotland. The responsibilities gave him maturity and experience beyond his years.

David O McKay.

1934 The Wise Little Hen with Donald Duck (fictional clan McDuck) released. Disney Poster.

1988 Samoa  three-dollar stamp depicts the Apia Samoa Temple.

Text Great are the promises of the Lord unto them who are upon the isles of the sea. 2 Nephi 10;24. Centenary of the Arrival of the Latter-Day saints in samoa.

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Elder Joseph H. Dean and his wife, Florence Ridges Dean arrived, the mission was formally organized on 17 June 1888. (Scots descent)

2008 Charles, Prince of Wales paid off the 357 year old debt. Before the battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651, King Charles II contracted the Worcester Clothiers to outfit his army with uniforms but was unable to pay the £453.3s bill

2015 Brexit. Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, or Brexit (a portmanteau of “British” and “exit” or “Britain” and “exit’’). Conservative Party leader David Cameron (clan Cameron) announced in January 2013 in what is now remembered as “The Bloomberg speech” a proposal to undertake a renegotiation of the terms of the UK’s membership of the EU, and subsequently to hold a UK referendum on EU membership. The proposals were contained in the Conservative Party manifesto for the United Kingdom general election, 2015, in which the Conservatives won with an unexpected overall majority. Following the election the opposition Labour Party withdrew its opposition to holding an in-out EU referendum. On the bill’s second reading, on 9 June 2015, MPs voted by 544 to 53 in favour of the principle of holding a referendum with only the Scottish National Party opposing the Bill. The later referendum approved Brexit.

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