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The chiefs not to entertain wandering bards, or other vagabonds of the sort ‘pretending libertie to baird and flattir,’ and all such ‘vagaboundis, bairdis (poets), juglouris (jugglers), or suche lyke’ to be apprehended, put in the stocks, and expelled the Islands.

(Why juggling presented any threat, apart from obvious physical ones, is unknown?)

Every gentleman or yeoman in the Islands possessing ‘thriescore kye (cows),’ and having children, to send at least his eldest son, or, failing sons, his eldest daughter, to some school in the Lowlands, there to be kept and brought up ‘quhill they may be found able sufficientlie to speik, reid, and wryte Inglische!’

Seven years later, in its continuing drive to promote education in English, the Scottish Privy Council stated amongst its objectives in passing the Act for the Settling of Parochial Schools:

that the vulgar Inglische toung be universallie plantit, and the Irische language, whilk is one of the chief and principall causis of the continewance of barbaritie and incivilitie amongis the inhabitants of the Ilis and Heylandis, may be abolisheit and removeit …