MARCH 30 1296 Capture of Berwick  English under Robert de Clifford take Berwick-upon-Tweed.

  1654 Map of Berwick Tweedasl.  The garrison was commanded by William Douglas the Hardy. First War of Scottish Independence.

Massacre of Berwick

AULD MAITLAND.* * * * *

“There lived a king in southern land, King Edward hight his name;

Unwordily he wore the crown, Till fifty years were gane.

He had a sister’s son o’s ain, Was large of blood and bane;

And afterward, when he came up, Young Edward hight his name.

One day he came before the king, And kneel’d low on his knee–

“A boon, a boon, my good uncle, “I crave to ask of thee!

“At our lang wars, in fair Scotland, “I fain hae wished to be;

“If fifteen hundred waled[90] wight men “You’ll grant to ride wi’ me.”

“Thou sail hae thae, thou sail hae mae; “I say it sickerlie;

“And I mysell, an auld gray man, Array’d your host sall see.”

King Edward rade, King Edward ran–I wish him dool and pyne!

Till he had fifteen hundred men, Assembled on the Tyne.

And thrice as many at Berwicke Were all for battle bound,

Who, marching forth with false Dunbar, A ready welcome found_…”

-From Auld Maitland, collected as part of Scott’s “Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/independence/intro_independence2.shtml

1323 Truce begins for 13 years between England and Scotland.

Mediated by Henry de Sully, grand butler of France, who was taken prisoner by the Scots at the battle of Biland Abbey.  Tytler’s Britannica.

1346  William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland  (died 1370) and his wife Margaret received a grant of the King’s (David II Bruce) Crag of Dunnottar, in Kincardineshire, with permission to re-fortify.

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A Half millennium later, Victorian era, romanticised depiction of a member of the clan Sutherland by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845.

1456 sometime this year.  Robert Cochrane of Cochrane resigned the lands of Cochrane to his successor Allen Cochrane who received a charter from King James II of Scotland. Edward Cochrane was accused but cleared of having anything to do with the detention of King James III of Scotland at Edinburgh Castle in 1482.

1464  sometime this year.   Battle of Champions · between two Scottish clans, Clan Gunn and Clan Keith.

1643  Battle of Seacroft Moor.

1712 Samuel Johnson contracted scrofula,  known at that time as the “King’s Evil” because it was thought royalty could cure it. Sir John Floyer, former physician to Charles II, recommended that the young Johnson should receive the “royal touch”, which he received from Queen Anne on 30 March 1712.

King Henry IV of France touching a number of sufferers of scrofula who are gathered about him in a circle. André de Laurens, 1609 . Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, also known as scrofula, refers to a lymphadenitis of the cervical lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis as well as non tuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria. Scrofula is a chronic painless mass in the neck.

Wikipedia.

Johnson writes biography The Life of Richard Savage,

1716 Ship “Elizabeth and Anne”. commander Edward TRAFFORD, bound for Virgiria and Jamaica from Liverpool 28 July 1716 with 126 prisoners (128 prisoners listed in manifest). Duncan, Robert. During the rebellion of 1715 the rebel forces entered Preston on 9 Nov and, after proclaiming as their king the chevalier of St. George, remained there for several days, during which the government forces advanced upon them. The town was assaulted, and on 14 Nov the rebel general Thomas FORSTER surrendered his army to the King’s forces. List compiled from ten ship manifests, prisoners  sent to the American Colonies the following spring as indentured servants for a seven-year period.

http://www.clan-duncan.co.uk/prisoners.html

1766 Easter Sunday. William Burnes moves his family, including son. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Robbie Burns,[1] Rabbie Burns, Scotland’s favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard)[2][3] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784) (Robert Burns spelled his surname Burnes until 1786), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar, The Mearns, and Agnes Broun (or Brown)[4][5] (1732–1820), the daughter of a tenant farmer from Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire.

Robert was born in a house built by his father William (now the Burns Cottage Museum), where he lived until Easter 1766 (Sunday March 30), when he was seven years old. William Burnes sold the house and took the tenancy of the 70-acre (280,000 m²) Mount Oliphant farm, southeast of Alloway. Here Burns grew up in poverty and hardship, and the severe manual labour of the farm left its traces in a premature stoop and a weakened constitution.  Wikipedia

Title page of the Kilmarnock Edition

Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882

 Burns stamp, USSR 1956.   Burns statue by David Watson Stevenson (1898) in Bernard Street, Leith.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits, including Burns, appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of  the Saint George Temple, WASHINGTON, Utah  22-23 August 1877. Woodruff’s eminent men –

1841. Edinburgh. Elder Orson Pratt, age 29, Apostle, (Gospel seeds in Scottish Soil, Ensign February 1987). wrote to the Millennial Star: “On the 30th of March (1841) I left upwards of 200 disciples under the watch-care of elder George D. Watt, a faithful and humble brother from Preston in England. The prospect is still cheering in that city, and no doubt there will be hundreds who will yet … embrace the message which God has sent to them.” Elder Pratt returned to Britain seven more times before his death in 1881, presiding over the British and European missions and visiting Edinburgh for the last time in 1864.

1908 Joseph Fielding Smith, Junior. 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Descended from Mack of Inverness (clan Mack), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots.  Wife Louie Shurtliff Smith dies after suffering from a severe illness related to her third pregnancy.

1981 Chariots of Fire filmed in Scotland tells of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. Nigel Havers plays Lord Andrew Lindsay, a Cambridge student runner partially based on David Burghley and Douglas Lowe. Lord Burghley married firstly in 1929, Lady Mary Theresa Montagu Douglas Scott (4 March 1904 – 1 June 1984), fourth daughter of Sir John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch & 9th Duke of Queensberry and Lady Margaret Alice “Molly” Bridgeman

 Film Poster. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), born in China of Scottish missionary parents, is in Scotland. Liddell delivers a sermon at the Paris Church of Scotland that Sunday, and quotes from Isaiah 40, ending with:

‘But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.’ Liddell defeats the American favorites and wins the gold medal. Ian Charleson himself wrote Eric Liddell’s speech to the post-race workingmen’s crowd at the Scotland v. Ireland races.

Eric Liddell went on to missionary work in China. All of Scotland mourned his death in 1945 in Japanese-occupied China.

In the film, Eric Liddell is tripped up by a Frenchman in the 400 meter event of a Scotland–France international athletic meeting. He recovers, makes up a 20 meter deficit, and wins. This was based on fact; the actual race was during a Triangular Contest meet between Scotland, England, and Ireland at Stoke-on-Trent in England in July 1923.

Liddell’s sister, Jenny Liddell Somerville cooperated fully with the making of the film and has a brief cameo in the Paris Church of Scotland during Liddell’s sermon. Some pieces of Vangelis’s music in the film did not end up on the film’s soundtrack album. One of them is the background music to the race Eric Liddell runs in the Scottish highlands. Scottish stage actor Ian Charleson performed the role of Pierre in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Piaf,

Liddell was memorialized by Elder Clinton Cook at the 2012 semi annual general conference October 4, 1^st session, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as Liddell was an inspiration to Apostle Cook’s son not to participate in sports on Sundays.  Elder Cook quoted Liddell quoting Isaiah.

1984 Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, filmed Floors Castle in Scotland used for the exterior and ballroom scenes.  Tarzan is discovered and brought to Scotland, where he fails to adapt to civilization (Hmm!), or so the plot was summarized.

2009 7^th  Annual “Dressed To Kilt” Charity Fashion Show New York City.

Stacy Engman (L) with robe, cross of Saint Andrews flag.  Laura Bennet  (R) in a red plaid..

Sarah Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley in plaid (L).

Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen on right.

Dario Franchitti (left.)                    Bernie Williams (right).

Mike Meyers (left). Sean and Micheline Connery (right) (8^th).

More kilts, Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Jason Patrick, Chris Noth And Kiefer Sutherland (clan Sutherland).

2012 Utah is ranked 2^nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans#Scottish_Americans_by_state ).   How are the Scots in Utah doing? United Health Foundation America’s Health rankings 2012 cancer deaths – Utah ranked 1^sthttp://www.americashealthrankings.org/UT-OK/2012

2015 Elder Holland’s visit  to Scotland coincided with the 175^th  anniversary of the Church in the United Kingdom. Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles dedicated Scotland for the preaching of the gospel in May 1840, having climbed a hill near Edinburgh Castle and asking the Lord for 200 souls who would receive the gospel. By the time Elder Pratt left Scotland 10 months later, his prayer had been answered, as witnessed by his entry in the Millennial Star: “On the 30^th  of March (1841) I left upwards of 200 disciples under the watch-care of Elder George D. Watt, a faithful and humble brother from Preston in England. The prospect is still cheering in that city (Edinburgh) and no doubt there will be hundreds who will yet … embrace the message which God has sent to them” (Breck England, “Gospel Seeds in Scottish Soil,” Ensign, February 1987).

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865630841/Elder-Holland-in-British-Isles.html?pg=all

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