October 22 – Map of Ayr shire and southwest Scotland in 1710 at time of the Union of Parliaments. Ochiltree and surrounds.

1674 Robert Miller (I) Minister of Ochiltree was again accused of not observing the instructions prescribed by the Privy Council, Accused at the Synod, 22^nd Oct. 1674, and in 1681 and 1683 he was libeled further: Vol. VII of the Privy Council’s Register p. 240 reports a complaint by His Majesty’s Advocate regarding ministers, Robert Miller (I) among them, who ‘have contemned his Majesty’s [Charles 2^nd] authority by not observing these instructions, and have grown to that height that at their communions and fasts they have publicly pronounced thereat the sentence of ex-communication, being the highest and most dreadfull sentence of the church, is [on ?] all such of his Majesties [Charles 2^nd] good and obedient subjects as in obedience to his Majesties [Charles 2^nd] lawes had taken a Declaration or signed the late band for the peace, or having taken the Covenant had deserted the same and turnes their backes thereupon, dischargeing and debarreing all such to participate of the communion of the Lord’s Supper upon paine of damnation, and have most rebelliously preached to the people the observance of the said Covenant under noe lesse paine’

Robert (1^st) married (1) Margaret, daughter of Gilbert Kennedy of Girvanmains ; (2) Grizel, daughter of Colonel Hugh Cochrane (husband of Jane Savage), brother of William Cochrane, 1^st Earl of Dundonald, and had issue — Robert Miller (2^nd), minister of St Quivox; William, M.D. : John, minister of Neilston ; Hugh ; Margaret ; Katherine ; Mary ; Jean.”

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 61.

Robert Miller’s (I) case was repeatedly continued, first because of the Council ‘having considered a certificate ‘upon soul and conscience’ of the said Mr Robert Miller’s inability to travel’; and later, when Mr. Miller (I) declared himself still unable to appear, and asked that some one be corrunissioned to take his deposition. But finally, the Council decided that he should be cited ‘to answear for the like crimes.’

Actually, Robert Miller (I) had personal reasons for not denouncing the Plot too loudly; one of the conspirators who fled to the Continent in 1683 was Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, (p.59, 72) his wife Grizel’s cousin. Yet in the end, the Lord Advocate 74 YYMA himself declared that this Robert had ‘behaved himself loyally and dutifully in reading the proclamation and declaration anent the Plot, and preaching against it,’ the defendant was ordered to find caution in 3000 marks to appear when called, and the case was dropped. A year before his older brother (Andrew), Robert Miller (I) of Ochiltree died in 1685.

Of these proceedings, Robert Wodrow says in his Sufferings Vol. II p. 176: ‘This is all mere Mistake; these worthy Ministers knew better things than to pass the highest Sentence upon such Grounds as these. That, in safe Generals, they might debar from the Lord’s Table, all Breakers of the Covenant, and Takers of unlawful Declarations and Bonds, I do not doubt; and, it may be upon some Occasions, they might have some Things in their Sermons, that might tend to confirm the Obligation of the Covenant; but they had preached nothing that came up to the Terms of this Libel.’

Privy Council of Scotland, was a body that advised the King. The council supervised the administration of the law, regulated trade and shipping, took emergency measures against the plague, granted licences to travel, administered oaths of allegiance, banished beggars and Gypsies, dealt with witches, recusants, Covenanters and Jacobites and tackled the problem of lawlessness in the Highlands and the Borders.The ‘secret’ or privy council makes its formal appearance when, in February 1490, [James 4^th] parliament elected 2 bishops, an abbot or prior, 6 barons and 8 royal officers to form the king’s council for the ostensioun and forthputting of the King’s authorite in the administracioun of justice. The Lords of Secret Council, as they were known, were part of the general body of Lords of Council. It was abolished on 1 May 1708. [Queen Anne]

The President of the Privy Council was one of the Great Officers of State in Scotland. Families represented

1625 John Graham, 4^th Earl of Montrose

           Montrose Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Rois) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. A castle existed in Montrose in the 10th century and was destroyed by Kenneth III. The trading revenues received from Montrose as well as Forfar and Dundee were acquired by Malcolm IV and contributed to Restenneth Priory. In 1178 William the Lion built a castle nearby in which he would occasionally reside. The ruins have acquired the name Red Castle. The last record of a charter there was in 1198. A convent dedicated to the Virgin Mary is said to have been founded in 1230 by Alan Durward but the precise location is unknown. In 1244 the town succumbed to fire. In July 1296 during the Wars of Independence, Edward I visited the town with 30,000 of his men and stayed at Munros castle for three nights. Edward stripped Scottish King John de Balliol of his Royal insignia and status. Twelve burgesses of the town swore allegiance to Edward I to protect themselves and the community of the town. 1297 the castle, which was manned by an English garrison, was destroyed by William Wallace who is said to have slain all soldiers in sight. The site of the castle, known as Castlestead, is at the southern end of the High Street. David II visited in 1371. The Dukedom of Montrose was created in 1488.

A Munro is a mountain in Scotland with a height over 3,000 ft (914.4 m). Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4^th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891.

The Cairngorms is a mountain range in the Scottish Highlands and home to five of the six highest  mountains  in Scotland,  all munros .

1649 John Campbell, 1^st Earl of Loudoun

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1660 John Leslie, 1^st Duke of Rothes.

1663 John Hay, 2^nd Earl of Tweeddale.

1672 John Maitland, 1^st Duke of Lauderdale (grandson of Alexander Seton, 1^st Earl of Dunfermline). A century and a half later, a Dunfermline cleric named Joseph Paton, protested against Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints doctrines in his pamphlet, Remarks on Mormonism, with the Approbation of Clergymen of Different Denominations, published in 1849 at Glasgow. Apostle Orson Pratt lost no time in countering with his Reply to a Pamphlet Printed at Glasgow, in print by April of the same year.

1681 Sir George Gordon of Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen

1682 James Graham, 3^rd Marquess of Montrose

1686 William Douglas, 1^st Duke of Queensberry (questioned)

1689 William Lindsay, 18^th Earl of Crawford –

Lindsay   Motto: ENDURE FORT [“Endure boldly”]. Chief: Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29^th Earl of Crawford and 12^th Earl of Balcarres. Crest: Issuing from an antique ducal coronet Or, the head, neck and wings of a swan Proper.

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1704, 1706 James Graham, 1^st Duke of Montrose

1715 Forster remains in Kelso until the 27^th.

1715 Duke of Mar created 22 October 1715 for Erskine became extant       for the 22^nd Earl of Mar.

1715 Marquess of Stirling created 22 October 1715 for Erskine extant subsidiary title of the Duke of Mar. This Marquessate is sometimes recorded as “Marquess Erskine”

1809 Federico Ricci (22 October 1809 – 10 December 1877), was an Italian composer of operas. Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci. [La prigione di Edimburgo, 1838]

Federico Ricci, portrait by Cucinota, circa 1870. Professor Alexander Weatherson in the 2009 Donizetti Society Newsletter wrote Scotland’s soil was about to be profaned by a stream of operas that bore the footprint of [Elizabeth’s] rival. without Mary Stuart, Scotland might have been left in peace. In Italy alone in the earliest decades of the nineteenth century there was a Scotch broth of operas.

1821 earthquake. Rothesay 3.2 power. Doctrine and Covenants 43_25 How oft have I called upon you by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of earthquakes and would have saved you with an everlasting salvation, but ye would not!

1877 Blantyre mining disaster, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, gas explosion, (22 October 1877).

1917 William Brassey Hole RSA died. (b. 1846) Educated at Edinburgh Academy, Hole painted 1889 frieze of Heroes of Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh.

Allan Ramsay, poet; James Thomson, poet; John Erskine, 6^th Earl of Mar, Leader of the Jacobite Rising of 1715; Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Scottish patriot; John Campbell, 2^nd   Duke of Argyl and Greenwich, statesman and soldier; James Dalrymple, 1^st Viscount of Stair, statesman, lawyer and author; Dalrymple is a village in east Ayrshire, Scotland. It is at the western-most point of East Ayrshire, about 8km south-east of Ayr. Dalrymple is in the Doon Valley, on the north bank of the River Doon.

John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, “Bonnie Dundee”, soldier; James VII King of Scotland, England and Ireland; John Maitland, 1^st Duke of Lauderdale, adviser to King Charles II; Charles II King of Scotland, England and Ireland; Robert Leighton, Bishop of Dundee;

James Graham, 1^st Marquess of Montrose, Royalist;

The site of the Montrose castle, Angus, now known as Castlestead was the birthplace of the famous James Graham, 1^st Marquess of Montrose. Graham signed the National Covenant against Charles I’s reorganisation of the Kirk in Scotland, fighting in the ensuing Bishops’ Wars, but later switched to the King’s side only to be captured and executed in Edinburgh in the year 1650.

Archibald Campbell, 8^th Earl and 1^st Marquess of Argyll, Covenanter; Alexander Leslie, 1^st Earl of Leven, soldier; George Jamesone, portrait pinter; Charles I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland; Sir William Kerr, 1^st Earl of Lothian, Covenanter.

On this site stood the house and studio of George Jamesone 1588-1644 Scotland’s first portrait painter. openplaques.org

1964 “Screen: Lots of Chocolates for Miss Eliza Doolittle:’My Fair Lady’ Bows at the Criterion. Audriey Hepburn, star. Hepburn adopted by her father for James Hepburn, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, named for Earl Bothwell. (clan Hepburn).

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Poster. Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, famous for his fictional Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Holloway was named after Henry Morton Stanley, the journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and for his search for David Livingstone (clan Livingston).

The journeys of Livingstone in Africa between 1851 and 1873

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world’s most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. Lerner won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, (where he wrote “The Choate Marching Song”) and Harvard. Lerner attended both Camp Androscoggin and Camp Greylock. At both Choate and Harvard, Lerner was a classmate of John F. Kennedy (clan Kennedy); at Choate they had worked together on the yearbook staff.

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