James Renwick, the Covenanting minister, issued his declaration on May 28, 1685.

Renwick became the leader of the Cameronian faction after the death of Richard Cameron, declaring that the king and his supporters were "enemies to God and the covenanted work of reformation". After several years of preaching in conventicles and being pursued across southern and central Scotland, Renwick was eventually caught by government forces, becoming the last Covenanting martyr.

On 28 May 1926 Sir James Cantlie, the Scottish physician, died. Cantlie achieved prominence as the founding President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine. He spent a large part of his career in Hong Kong, carrying out many investigations into leprosy, and dealing with an outbreak of plague in the colony. While in Hong Kong one of his pupils at the College of Medecine for Chinese was the future leader of China, Sun Yat Sen.

Today's recipe: Irish chef Eamonn Hunt's dish of marinated mackerel with soda bread and aioli.