In the summer of 1544 Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who had gone over to the party of the English king, plundered the Isle of Arran, and made himself master of Bute and Rothesay Castle.

The town was besieged and captured by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in the summer of 1544.

The summer of 1544 found him once more across the channel, serving as a royal secretary at the siege of Boulogne.

The theme of glorious summer coming after a long winter of discontent and repression was, he has told us, congenial to his artistic sense.

-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

In the summer of 1931 he clashed with Catholic chancellor Heinrich Bruning, who frankly told Pacelli he believed that he " misunderstood the political situation in Germany and the real character of the Nazis.

In July 1939, Raeder told Karl Dönitz that his fears of a general war were groundless, and told him he take the entire summer off for a vacation.

There is also a story told by Murdoch's son John of a visit by Trevithick and Andrew Vivian to see a model engine in 1794: The model of the wheel carriage engine was made in the summer of 1792 and was then shown to many of the inhabitants of Redruth – about two years after Trevithick and A. Vivian called at my father's house in Redruth ... My father mentions that ... on that day they asked him to show his model of the wheel carriage engine which worked with strong steam and no vacuum.

The Spade Ranch house is also the home to the Mogollon Monster story, which is a classic traditionally told for every group of campers that come through each week during the summer camp.

He told the city the plan would run out of money by the summer of 2009.

This Idyll is told in flashback by Sir Percivale, who had become a monk and died one summer before the account, to his fellow monk Ambrosius.

Skeptical at first, Staubach told Smith to spend some time at his company's offices during the spring and summer if he was sincere.

The poet W. S. Merwin had arrived that summer at the Naropa Institute and been told by Allen Ginsberg that he ought to visit the seminary.

In October 2009, Michael Travis told the Colorado Daily newspaper in Boulder: " We are going to be playing some shows next summer and fall.

Greenfield offered to stay, but on June 11 King told him that the cabinet would need the summer to consider the question and that no agreement would be immediately forthcoming.

In the summer of 2000, Malkmus called Kannberg and told him, " You need to change the website to say we aren't a band anymore.

Decades later, he told Fianna Fáil politicians that in late summer 1933, he was unsure whether the Irish Army would obey his orders to suppress the perceived threat, or whether the soldiers would support the Blueshirts ( who included many ex-soldiers ).

John Walsh generated a great deal of controversy during a summer press tour in 2006 when he stated to the media he jokingly told senators to implant " exploding " chips in the anuses of sex offenders:

Only weeks later, at the end of the summer, Fon told Dorian that Carroll was pregnant with his second child.

In the summer of 1863, Ellen was told by her parents and by the Earps that Virgil had died in Tennessee and she left Pella with her parents and daughter for the Oregon Territory.

Openly gay Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, when asked whether Dreier was passed over for the position because of his " moderate " views, told a crowd of reporters " Yes, in the sense that I marched in the moderate pride parade last summer and went to a moderate bar .”

At the end of the summer he told the press that he couldn't think of any mistakes he had made and later joked that the " lines of Venus were in the wrong juxtaposition ", which was incorrectly translated by the press as a genuine belief in New Age mysticism.

Based on an MRI, doctors told him in the late summer that he needed spinal fusion surgery and that at his age they could not guarantee his return to the NFL.

At the start of Britain's military intervention in Libya, Chancellor George Osborne told MPs it was likely to cost tens of millions of pounds, raised to £ 260m by the MoD as the action continued over the summer.

In the summer of 2009, Hockey Canada told players that they would have to choose to play within Hockey Canada or outside of Hockey Canada by September 30 of each playing year.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

During the summer, Sir Stephen decides to move O to Samois, an old mansion solely inhabited by women for advanced training and body modifications related to submission.

However, an independence referendum called by a sharply divided UBP in the summer of 1995 was resoundingly defeated and resulted in the resignation of the Premier and UBP leader, Sir John Swan.

Sir Philip Sidney spent the summer of 1580 with her at Wilton, or at Ivychurch, a favourite retreat of hers in the neighbourhood.

" I will remember the summer of 1909 when Mr. William F. Milne, an intimate friend of our family went to visit his old home in Scotland and came back all enthused with the idea of the Boys Brigade, Sir Baden Powell's organization in Great Britain.

A single member of the family escaped the general proscription — James, the eldest son of Sir Alexander, who, after arrest and escape to the highlands, was restored in 1454 to the office of chamberlain to which he had been appointed in the summer of 1449.

Nonetheless, he was still under contract in London in the summer of 1737 when he received a summons, via Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, Secretary of the Spanish Embassy there, to visit the Spanish court.

After studying in Leipzig and at the University of Göttingen he visited England in the summer of 1806, carrying a letter of introduction from the naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach to Sir Joseph Banks, who, with the other members of the African Association, accepted his offer in 1809 to launch an expedition to discover the source of the River Niger.

Then in the late summer of 1318, Sir John de Bermingham with his army began a march against Edward de Brus.

Gilbert was eager to participate and, after Carew's seizure of the barony of Idrone ( in modern County Carlow ), he pushed westward with his forces across the River Blackwater in the summer of 1569 and joined up with his kinsman to defeat Sir Edmund Butler, a younger brother of the Earl's.

* Sir John Wentworth, provincial governor of New Hampshire ( summer resident )

The sixth Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Richard MacDonnell had a summer residence built on the Peak circa 1868.

He handed over his company at Flushing to Sir Thomas Vavasour, a relation of his wife, and in the summer of 1598 sailed into the English Channel, and seized four ‘ hulks ’ of Lübeck which were reputed to be carrying Spanish goods.

In London, professor Pavle Popović, a literary historian and critic, was in charge of Serbian schoolboys and undergraduates who, after Serbia was overrun by the enemy, were brought to England in the summer of 1916 through the generosity of the British people and the enterprise of the Serbian Relief Fund, founded by Lady Paget, the wife of Sir Ralph Paget.

The Laurier Museum commemorates the summer home of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and is a National Historic Site of Canada.

Sir Orfeo wanders in the forest for many years, sleeping on the bare earth and living on berries and fruits in summer, roots and the bark of trees in winter, until after ten years, he sees Heurodis riding past in the company of a fairy host.

During the summer of 1779 the Monarch was attached to the Channel fleet under Sir Charles Hardy ; in December was one of the squadron with which Rodney sailed for the relief of Gibraltar, and had a prominent share in the action off St. Vincent on 16 January 1780.

His first botanical expedition — at the suggestion of Sir Joseph Banks — was to Iceland, in the summer of 1809.

In 1810, he accompanied Sir George Mackenzie on a summer expedition to Iceland where he conducted naturalist studies.

When Byng was promoted to a higher command during the summer of 1917, he was succeeded by General Sir Arthur Currie, the commander of the 1st Division, giving the corps its first Canadian commander.

Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, had a summer home in Rivière-du-Loup.

Sir Michael said: " What we are arguing is that we were not well prepared last summer for the scale of flooding that took place.

The town was, and continues to be a home to noted summer citizens, including steel magnate Sir James Dunn, Fathers of Confederation Samuel Leonard Tilley and Charles Tupper, and William Cornelius Van Horne, General Manager and later, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway.