September 29 – Michaelmas Michael and All Angels feast day.

Saint Michael the Archangel

1066 Normans in England.

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1165 Humphrey III de Bohun succeeded to fiefs at father’s death, Humphrey II de Bohun and Margaret of Gloucester (died 1187), the eldest daughter of the erstwhile constable Miles of Gloucester.

1240 Margaret of England (29 September 1240 – 26 February 1275) born, was a medieval English princess who became Queen of Scots. A daughter of the Plantagenet king Henry III of England and his queen, Eleanor of Provence, she was Queen consort to Alexander III “the Glorious”, King of the Scots.

Margaret of England

1364 Battle of Auray part of Breton War of Succession 1341 to 1364, and Hundred Years War.

1526 John Leslie, Bishop of Ross was born in 1526. He was the most loyal of Mary, Queen of Scots’ supporters during the turbulent times of 1562. It was John Leslie who wrote for Mary the famous History of Scotland from 1436 to 1561, listing those nobles killed in action at Pinkie (1547), including a reference to the Master of Meffen, son of Henry Stewart Lord Methven and Margaret (nee Tudor), dowager Queen, and father of Dorothea Ruthven (nee Stewart). It was this connection which targeted the Earl of Gowrie to be destroyed by James 6th.

John Leslie, Bishop of Ross. Son of Gavin Lesley, rector of Kingussie, Badenoch.

1568 Queen of Scots commission at York.

1642 The Yorkshire Treaty of Neutrality was signed, but was repudiated by Parliament 4 October.

1661 to 1829, Sometime in these years. Test Acts were English parliament’s religious penal laws against public officers. Only persons professing the Established Church could hold ‘public’ employment. Ban aimed at Presbyterians, (Dissenters from the Established Church, recusants, Catholics, Nonconformists, Lutherans, Quakers, Covenanters, Methodists, Congregationalists, Jews, Baptists, along with slaves, felons, imbeciles. and foreigners) The Test Act of 1678 required the sacrament from the Church of England within 3 months, sworn Oath of Allegiance, sworn Oath of Supremacy [to the King as Head of the Church of England), sworn belief in Doctrine of Passive Obedience, renounce the Covenant, (anti Presbyterian) and declaration against transubstantiation (anti Catholic), against invocation of saints (anti Catholic), and Mass (anti Catholic) before a peers election to the House of Lords, or election to the House of Commons (meaning a peer not swering was ineligible – not competent – to be elected). It exempted the Duke of York, later James 7th (of Scots) and 2nd (of England)  and targeted 5 Catholic Peers. Test Acts were later specifically outlawed by the United States Constitution (Article 6) in 1789. Roman Catholic and recusants ban repealed in 1829 in United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales)

A 1790 cartoon satirizing the efforts of Charles James Fox to get the Test and Corporation Acts repealed. British Joseph Priestley is depicted preaching from atop a pile of his own works, in a pulpit made from a barrel inscribed “FANATICISM”, to Fox seated in a box pew. Fox asks, “Pray, Doctor is there such a thing as a Devil?” Priestley responds “No”, as the devil himself announces, “If you had eyes behind, you’d know better my dear Doctor”. Wikipedia.

1739 South Carolina Security Act of 1739 (which required all white males to carry fire arms even to church on Sundays) had been passed in August, and penalties were supposed to begin after September 29.

1746 Prince Charles landed near Morlaix, in Brittany. [TG84-374] a period of thirteen months and a few days, five months of which had been engaged in the most precarious, perilous, and fatiguing series of flight, concealment, and escape, [from Scotland] that has ever been narrated in history or romance. Tytler’s Britannica 240. Charles was a solitary fugitive. He found refuge in caves and huts, and lay in forests. A reward of L80,000 having been offered for taking Charles, dead or aiive. He trusted his life to hundreds of individuals, not one prevailed to betray him, for the reward. For five months he wandered in the West Highlands, including Flora Macdonald. Prince Charles’ clothes had not been shifeted for weeks, his eyes were swollen, his visage wan.

1781 On September 29, General Washington moved the army closer to Yorktown and British gunners opened up on the infantry. Throughout the day several British cannon fired on the Americans but there were few casualties. Fire was also exchanged between American riflemen and Hessian Jägers.

Cornwallis pulled back from all of his outer defenses, except for the Fusilier’s redoubt on the west side of the town and redoubts 9 and 10 in the east. Cornwallis had his forces occupy the earthworks immediately surrounding the town because he had received a letter from Clinton that promised relief force of 5,000 men within a week and he wished to tighten his lines. The Americans and the French occupied the abandoned defenses and began to establish their own batteries there. With the British outer defenses in their hands, allied engineers began to lay out positions for the artillery. The men improved their works and deepened their trenches. The British also worked on improving their defenses. 71st Fraser’s Highlanders (disbanded at the end of the war)

1798 Lord Nelson returns to London.

The Gallant Nellson bringing home two Uncommon fierce French Crocadiles from the Nile as a Present to the King, James Gilray, 1798, National Maritime Museum. The crocodiles represent Fox and Sheridan

1829 The formation of the Metropolitan Police Force on 29 September 1829 by Sir Robert Peel. Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British capital, London. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan Police moved away from Scotland Yard in 1890, and the name “New Scotland Yard” was adopted for the new headquarters. Eventually, the service outgrew its original site, and new headquarters were built on the Victoria Embankment, overlooking the River Thames, south of what is now known as the Ministry of Defence HQ

Sir Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne are appointed as Justices of the Peace in charge of the Force.

1829 sometime this year. Angus “Pothole” McDuck born in Glasgow, is Scrooge McDuck’s uncle. Fictional clan McDuck. Parents were Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard. He had two younger brothers named Fergus McDuck and Jake McDuck. Angus migrated to America in the 1840s and became a riverboat owner, writer and …

1938 Munich Pact, Nazi’s get to occupy Czech sudentenland, the rest of Czech is occupied March 1939.   Churchill bemoaned the allies threw away 50 Czech divisions. Scots, and Scots descendants would soon be fighting in the coming war.

1967

Accomplishments in Space

Commemorative Issue of 1967

1989 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 when the wreckage fell on the town of Lockerbie in the Dumfries and Galloway region of south-western Scotland. ‘On 29 September 1989, President Bush appointed Ann McLaughlin Korologos, former Secretary of Labor, to chair the President’s Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism (PCAST) to review and report on aviation security policy in the light of the sabotage of flight PA103. Oliver “Buck” Revell, the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director, was assigned to advise and assist PCAST in their task.

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