November 27 Advent starts on the 4th Sunday before December 25 Christmas, the Sunday from November 27 to December 3 inclusive.

Model Parliament. From Top left Archbishop clergy wearing miter hat under heraldry pall or pailium Y shaped charge shakefork for See of Canterbury, clerk, Alexander King under Scots Arms Gules or Red Lion Rampant border of double tressure flory-counter-flory   , Edward 1st under canopy throne, Llewellyn of Wales, two more observers, clergy under shield two crossed keys for Holy See and keys of heaven entrusted to Saint Peter, gold and silver represent loosing and binding. The commons are seated in rows right angle to head table.

1295 The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I (descendant of Malcolm, and ancestor of James 2nd Stewart King of Scots) to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament”. Edward I summoned the parliament on 13 November 1295. In calling the parliament, Edward proclaimed in his writ of summons, “what touches all, should be approved of all, and it is also clear that common dangers should be met by measures agreed upon in common.” At the time, Parliament’s legislative authority was limited and its primary role was to levy taxes. Edward’s paramount goal in summoning the parliament was to raise funds for his wars, specifically planned campaigns against the French and the Scots for the upcoming year, and countering an insurgency in Wales.

1735 Sir Andrew Mitchell (1708-1771) of the Temple Esquire, receives invitation to become a member of the Honorable Society, elected February 26, 1735. Between 1760 and 1764 Mitchell’s letters with Andrew Millar VI, Publisher on the Strand, are now in the British Museum. In 1767 Millar resigned Millar’s business to Thomas Cadell the elder [q. v.], Millar’s partner since 1765, and retired to Kew Green, where he died on 8 June 1768; Millar was buried in Chelsea cemetery.

1746 Robert Livingston, born, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813). the eldest son of Judge Robert Livingston (1718-1775) and Margaret Beekman Livingston, grandson of Robert Livingston (1688-1775) of Clermont and married Margaret Beekman and Margaret Howarden, greatgrandson of Robert Livingston the Elder (1654–1728) and Alida Schuyler. Robert the Elder was born in the village of Ancrum, near Jedburgh, in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, one of seven children of the Reverend John Livingston, a lineal descendant of the fourth Lord Livingston, ancestor of the earls of Linlithgow and Callendar, a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was sent into exile in 1663 due to his resistance to attempts to turn the Presbyterian national church into an Episcopalian institution. The exiled family were raised in Rotterdam, in the Dutch Republic, thus Robert Livingston was fluent in the Dutch language, which helped him greatly in his later career in the former Dutch colony of New Netherland.

1804 map of “Louisiana”, edged on the west by the Rocky Mountains

1775 Publisher John Murray’s birth occurred on November 27, 1775, Murray first became involved in Walter Scott’s works as a seller of books published by Archibald Constable.  The relationship with Constable developed after Murray dissolved his partnership with his father’s former assistant, Samuel Highley.  The developing interaction between Murray and Constable is described in Samuel Smiles’ “A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843”. Mr. Constable’s answer was favourable. In October 1804 Mr. Murray, at the instance of Constable, took as his apprentice Charles Hunter, the younger brother of A. Gibson Hunter, Constable’s partner. The apprenticeship was to be for four or seven years, at the option of Charles Hunter. These negotiations between the firms, and their increasing interchange of books, showed that they were gradually drawing nearer to each other, until their correspondence became quite friendly and even intimate. Walter Scott was now making his appearance as an author; Constable had published his “Sir Tristram” in May 1804, and his “Lay of the Last Minstrel” in January 1805. Large numbers of these works were forwarded to London and sold by Mr. Murray.’

Hunter Crest: A greyhound sejant Proper, gorged with an antique crown Or.Motto: CURSUM PERFICIO.
[from Latin: “I accomplish the hunt”].         Chief: Pauline Hunter of Hunterston

1832 – Dumfries Cholera Epidemic, Dumfries, Scotland (15 September to 27 November 1832)

1832 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 85. While that man, who was called of God and appointed, that putteth forth his hand to asteady the bark of God, shall fall by the shaft of death, like as a tree that is smitten by the vivid shaft of lightning.

1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout father’s hopes that his son might become part of the clergy.

  • Armstrong17th 2Warren2Mehew2Luther2Choate zoe

Custer’s mother was Marie Ward, who – at the age of 16 – had married Israel Kirkpatrick. At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. In conjunction with Pickett’s Charge to the west, Robert E. Lee dispatched Stuart’s cavalry on a mission into the rear of the Union Army. Custer encountered the Union cavalry division of Brig. Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg directly in the path of Stuart’s horsemen.

Battle of Washita from Harper’s Weekly, December 19, 1868. Also called Battle of the Washita or Washita Massacre ) occurred on November 27, 1868 when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River (near present day Cheyenne, Oklahoma).

1909 Macbeth (1909 Italian film), directed by Mario Caserini

1935 Fleeta Stapleton Choate (nee Moritzky) married Irvan Wesley Choate (clans Cochrane, Cairns, Campbell, Carlyle, Carruthers, Cheyne, Colquhoun, Colville, Crawford, Crichton, Cumming, Cunningham) in Oklahoma City, and Sealed 30 May 1942 in the Salt Lake Temple.

From a post card circa 1930, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  Temple Illuminated, Salt Lake City, Utah. Looking very much like it would have in 1940

1995 Spencer Elias Choate born. (clans Hunter, Lockhart, Meldrum, Cochrane, Stewart, Douglas, Wallace) Great grand son of Fleeta and Irvan Choate.

Disclaimer: The author of each article published on this web site owns his or her own words. The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of Utah Standard News or official policies of the USN and may actually reflect positions that USN actively opposes. No claim in public domain or fair use.    © John Choate