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1635 In Scotland
Events from the year 1635 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents Monarch * Monarch – Charles I Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Robert Spottiswood * Lord Justice General – William Elphinstone * Lord Justice Clerk – James Carmichael of the Ilk Events * May – Without consulting the Parliament of Scotland, Charles I authorized a new Book of Canons, which among others made him the head of the Church of Scotland. Full dates unknown * Construction of Malleny House and Garden was initiated. * Earliest recorded establishment of a lighthouse in Isle of May. * Publication of the 1635 edition of Scottish Psalter. Births * 10 April – Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (died 1699) * 5 August – George Martine, Scottish historian (died 1712) * 28 December – Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Charles I (died 1650) Full dates unknown * Kenneth Mackenzie, Scottish noble (died 1678) * George Douglas, Scottish general (died 1692 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Stuart (daughter Of Charles I)
Elizabeth Stuart (28 December 1635 – 8 September 1650) was the second daughter of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. From age six until her death at age 14, Elizabeth was a prisoner of the English Parliament during the English Civil War. Her emotional written account of her final meeting with her father on the eve of his execution and his final words to his children have been published in numerous histories about the Civil War and Charles I. Failed betrothal Elizabeth was born on 28 December 1635 at St James's Palace and was baptised there five days later, on 2 January, by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1636, Maria de' Medici, Elizabeth's maternal grandmother, attempted to have the infant princess betrothed to the son of the Prince of Orange, the future William II of Orange. Despite the fact that Charles I thought the marriage of an English princess to a Prince of Orange beneath her rank, the king's financi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Forbes (bishop Of Aberdeen)
Patrick Forbes (24 August 1564 – 28 March 1635) was a late 16th-century and early 17th-century Scottish churchman rising to the post of Protestant Bishop of Aberdeen. Life Born in 1564, he was the oldest son of Elizabeth Strachan and her husband William Forbes, laird of Corse. He attended the High School of Stirling, the University of Glasgow and then the University of St Andrews. At St Andrews, he came under the influence of the renowned theologian Andrew Melville. In 1598, Forbes's father died, leaving him his estate. Forbes became religiously puritanical and an avid preacher, though he was reluctant to enter the ministry. George Gledstanes, Archbishop of St Andrews, ordered him to enter the ministry or stop preaching, and as a result Forbes confined his preaching to his own household. At the death of his friend John Chalmers, the minister of Keith, in 1611, the dying Chalmers requested Forbes to take control of the parish of Keith and continue his work there. So it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Anderson (physician)
Patrick Anderson (fl. 9 May 1618 – 1 January 1635), was a physician and author. Anderson was the author of 'The Colde Spring of Kinghorne Craig, his admirable and new tried properties so far foorth as yet are found true by experience' (1618), dedicated to John, earl of Mar; and a very rare book called 'Grana Angelica; hoc est, Pilularum hujus nominis insignis utilitas, quibus etiam accesserunt alia quædam paucula de durioris Alvi incommodis propter materiæ cognitionem, ac vice supplementi in fine adjuncta,’ Edinburgh, 12mo, 1635. The latter describes some mild aperient pills, the prescription for which Anderson says that he brought from Venice, which continued in 1843 to be sold in Edinburgh by the proprietor of an ancient patent. In 1625 Anderson saw through the press a religious work, called 'The Countesse of Marres Arcadia,’ written by James Caldwoode, minister of Falkirk, and to it he prefixed a long dedicatory epistle addressed to the Countess of Mar, one of his pati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Gibson (Lord Provost)
Walter Gibson (c. 1635–1723) was a 17th century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1688. He was joint owner of three ships including the ''Carolina Merchant'' which transported a group of Covenanters to Charleston in 1684. Life He was the eldest son of John Gibson of Overnewton, a mansion in Glasgow. Walter initially traded as a "maltster" (brewer) then operated a herring boat. He organised an interesting barter involving a Dutch ship which transported 3600 barrels of herring to France in exchange for 3600 barrels of brandy plus 3600 crowns. This lucrative deal set him on a new path. He began importing iron (the first importation in Scotland). He then invested in the "great company of Virginie and the Carribby Islands" (Virginia Company?) and began transatlantic trading. He operated three ships and mainly traded with Sweden and Spain. On at least one occasion he took Scottish settlers to America in 1683 (the East Jersey settlement?). In July 1684, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Haliburton (bishop Of Aberdeen)
George Haliburton (c. 1635 – 1715) was a Scottish cleric and Jacobite. He was both Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of King's College, Aberdeen. Life Haliburton received his education at St Salvator's College, St Andrews, obtaining a Master of Arts on 12 June 1652, and an honorary Doctorate in Divinity in 1673. He was made minister of Coupar Angus in 1659, and was Archdeacon of Dunkeld by the summer of 1663. After obtaining his doctorate, he served as moderator of the Presbytery of Meigle from 1678 until he became Bishop of Brechin, receiving consecration as bishop at St Andrews Cathedral on 13 June 1678. The latter encompassed the roles of provost and minister of Brechin, but nevertheless George remained minister of Coupar Angus. On 22 June 1682, Haliburton was selected to move to the larger diocese of Aberdeen, and was translated as Bishop of Aberdeen on 5 July 1682. Unlike most members of the Church of Scotland, Haliburton supported episcopacy, and was an activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stewart (advocate, Born 1635)
Sir James Stewart (or Steuart) of Goodtrees (1635–1713) was a Scottish lawyer, political opponent of the Stuarts monarchy, and reforming Lord Advocate of Scotland from 1692 to 1713. The Jacobites nicknamed him Jamie Wylie. Early life James Stewart was the fourth son of Sir James Steuart of Coltness (1608–1681), a banker in Edinburgh and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Anne Hope, niece of Sir Thomas Hope. He was the brother of Sir Robert Steuart, 1st Baronet of Allanbank (1643–1707) and Sir Thomas Stewart of Coltness, 1st Baronet. Career He was called to the bar on 20 November 1661, but lost almost all his practice defending his father against a charge of embezzlement. In exile Stewart found it necessary to leave the country because of a pamphlet, and went to Rouen, where he became a merchant under the name of Graham. Some years afterwards he returned to Scotland, but he was suspected of having had a hand in a further political pamphlet, ''An Account of Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hamilton (1699 Moderator)
George Hamilton of Cairns (1635–1712) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1699. Life He was born in the manse at Pittenweem in 1635 the eldest son of Rev. George Hamilton (d. 1673), the local minister. His father apparently translated to Newburn, Fife in 1636 and in 1637 appears with Alexander Henderson of Leuchars and James Bruce of Kingsbarns as three Fife ministers petitioning regarding the changes in the Book of Common Prayer. He studied at St Andrews University from 1649 graduating MA in 1653. In 1659 he was he ordained as a minister of the Church of Scotland, his first charge being Newburn in south Fife close to his birthplace. In the troubled times of the 1660s he was deprived of office in 1662 due to the Stuart Restoration. He then disappears from public record for around 30 years, and probably survived through teaching as a private tutor in Fife. Following the Glorious Revolution in Scotland he was reall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Riddell (minister)
Rev Archibald Riddell (1635–1708) was a Scots-born 17th-century Presbyterian church minister in Scotland and America. His name is sometimes spelled Riddel. He preached at conventicles in a time when such actions were considered high treason. He was imprisoned on the Bass Rock and was later banished to New Jersey. Early life His father was Sir Walter, second baronet of Riddell. His mother was Janet, daughter of William Rigg of Athernie, in Fife. Archibald had two older brothers: Sir John, who succeeded his father; and William, who started the Riddells of Glen-Riddell, in Dumfries-shire. Archibald graduated from Edinburgh University on 9 July 1656 with a Master of Arts degree. Early career Archibald was privately ordained to the ministry at Kippen by John Law around 1670. He was a field preacher along with John Blackadder and John Dickson. At one such conventicle, at which Robert Garnock was present there was an exchange of gunfire with government soldiers. Riddell was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Ross (died 1697)
Katherine Ross born Katherine Collace (1635 – 10 July 1697) was a Scottish Covenanter, memoirist and schoolmistress. Life Ross was born in Edinburgh in about 1635. Her parents were Marion (born Muirhead) and Francis Collace. Her father was the minister of Gordon and he died when she was about twelve. Her four sisters included Elizabeth and the writer Jean Collace. When she was about fourteen she was converted by the eventual martyr Hugh Mackail who was then the minister at Trinity in Edinburgh. On 31 January 1650, she married the "wicked" John Ross. They had twelve children, but none of them survived. Katherine summarised her marriage as "24 years of affliction". By 1667 and after the assistance of Thomas Hog she was radical about her religion. She had become a follower of the Covenanters who believed that they should follow the lead of the Presbyterians. Her husband died in 1674 and she and her sister Jean moved to Fife and the village of Falkland. The two of them became s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gordon (pioneer)
Alexander Gordon (1635 in Aberdeen Scotland – 1697), fought as a Royalist and was captured by Oliver Cromwell's army at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651 at the end of the English Civil War. He was imprisoned at Tothill Field outside London over the winter of 1651–1652. He was transported to the New World in 1652 and entered into indentured servitude. His later victory over servitude became the legal precedent in Massachusetts. The Alexander Gordon line is the earliest Gordon family in the New World according to thGordon Genealogy DNA Project and descends from Adam de Gordoun through Sir William Gordon 1265 Laird of Strathbogie (now Huntly). Along with many other Scottish prisoners, he sailed on the ship "Liberty", commanded by Capt. James Allen to Boston, and was confined at Watertown as a prisoner of war. For a year or more Alexander remained with John Cloyes, a boatswain, or mate, of the vessel living in Cambridge on the road to Watertown—near the site of Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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