November 3 – 1219 Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, died, Married to Margaret de Beaumont. Saer’s father, Robert de Quincy, was a knight of king William the Lion, and Saer’s mother Orabilis was heiress of the lordship of Leuchars in Fife. In 1211-1212, the Earl of Winchester (England) commanded a retinue of a hundred knights and a hundred serjeants in William the Lion’s campaign against the Mac William rebels, a force which some historians have suggested was the mercenary force from Brabant lent to the campaign by King John.

Fife on the North Sea, low land.

1492 treaty of Etaples Peace of Etaples signed in Étaples (northern France) between the kings Charles VIII Valois of France and Henry VII Tudor of England.

1600 Robert Bruce, Minister of Edinburgh. Bruce refused to give praise to God in public for the king’s [James 6th] deliverance from the pretended conspiracy in the year 1600, until he [Bruce] was better ascertained of the fact, he [James 6th] not only discharged him [Bruce] from preaching in Edinburgh, but also obliged him [Bruce] to leave the kingdom. When he [Bruce] embarked at the queen’s ferry on the [p. 157] 3rd of November the same year [1600], there appeared such a great light as served him [Bruce] and the company to sail, although it was near midnight. He [Bruce] arrived at Dieppe on the eighth of November. And although, by the king’s [James 6th] permission, Bruce returned home the year following [1601], yet because Bruce would not, (1.) Acknowledge Gowrie’s conspiracy; (2.) Purge the king [James 6th] in such places as he [James 6th] should appoint; and (3.) Crave pardon of the king [James 6th] for his long distrust and disobedience, &c. Bruce could not be admitted to his place and office again, but was commanded by the king [James 6th] to keep ward in his own house of Kinnaird.

Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE 

LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
 TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent 

SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb. 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh Feb. 17, 1688. together with a succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution. as also, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bluidy persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts, and other authenticated Writings:—The whole including a Period of near Two Hundred Years. By John Howie – 1781

This refers to King James [6th] murder of his 2nd cousin Ruthven, the Earl of Gowrie, at Gowrie House Perth. Gowrie was as close kin to Queen Elizabeth of England as was James, and Gowrie had other attributes more appealing to the line of succession to the English throne.

1640 the Long Parliament. meets. [TG41-365]

1657 Patrick Ruthven, son, who styled himself Patrick, lord Ruthven, presented a petition to Cromwell for arrears of pension due to his father, in which he stated that the barony of Ruthven had been restored by parliament to his father in 1641 (for information regarding Patrick Ruthven, see especially Papers relating to William, first Earl of Gowrie, and Patrick Ruthven, his fifth and last surviving Son, 1867).  Oliver Cromwell

1727 Sometime in November. John Miller of auld Kilpatrick YYMA 65 was licensed in November, 1727 and presented in 1728 by Thomas [Cochrane the sixth Earl (died 1737)], Earl of Dundonald, to the church of auld Kilpatrick, west of Glasgow on the north bank of the Clyde. Earlier that year, he married Lilias, daughter of James Clark, minister of St. Mary’s Glasgow. He died young, in 1738.

Glasgow and the River Clyde.

1743 Autumn in Scotland.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

10th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Mosiah.

Grandin printing press office restored. The paper did not require hanging to dry, so it would not be hung on strings as depicted herein.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet (clan Mack of Inverness,Malcolm King of Scots) And now, verily saith the Lord, that these things might be known among you, O inhabitants of the earth, I have sent forth mine angel flying through the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel, who hath appeared unto some and hath committed it unto man, who shall appear unto many that dwell on the earth.  And this gospel shall be preached unto every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Doctrine and Covenants 133.

1860 Thomas 10th Earl of Dundonald, Cochrane Mourned.

Stone Coat of Arms of William Cochrane. Mounted in a modern tower near the town of Johnstone, in Renfrewshire. The original lands of the Cochrane family first occupied in the early 1100′s.

http://www.scotclans.com/scottish-clans/clan-cochrane/cochrane-coat-of-arms/

1942 –Battle of El Alamein, 23 October to 5 November 1942. Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery commander of British – allied forces.

Montgomery watches Allied tanks advance (November 1942).

Axis forces halt their retreat: 3 November.

1975 North Sea oil begins to flow. Production will start this month at a rate of 10,000 barrels per day. The Queen has formally begun the operation of the UK’s first oil pipeline at a £500,000 ceremony in Scotland. The 130-mile (209-kilometre) pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth has been built by British Petroleum (BP). The pipeline serves the Forties oilfield 110 miles east of Aberdeen, which the company discovered 1969.

The Queen opens the first OK oil pipeline. news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/  Within 4 decades the new oil wealth is going to spur Scottish independence from England.

1984 Calista Choate (nee Maynard) born.

2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film. Glenfinnan Viaduct Scotland (Viaduct used in the Hogwarts Express scenes)

November 2–4, 2007, the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ Festival.

 

2012 Humor back in the day of arranged weddings. A Ramsay clan’s groom agreed to pay the Lockhart clan 2 cows and 4 sheep for his bride. The exchange was scheduled for the banks of the river separating the two clans. Lockhart and the lassie arrived at the appointed time and place, only to discover the Ramsay groom and livestock were on the wrong side. Lockhart grumbled, ‘Thae laddy dinna know which side his bride is bartered on.’

http://www.fife.50megs.com/scots-jokes2.htm

2015 Crippled America, How to make America Great Again. Published, Simon and Schuster. Look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them?

Donald John Trump, Sr. (clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides), (born June 14, 1946). His mother was Mary Anne MacLeod, (born May 10, 1912,– died August 7, 2000), who was married in 1936. Mary Anne was born at Tong, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, off th e coast of Scotland, United Kingdom.

 

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