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Policy
adopted by the Crown Estates of Scotland
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"....policy
adopted by the Crown Estates of Scotland towards the Highlands
during the 16th and 17th centuries - a policy expressed in
the Statutes of Icolmkil (Iona) 1609 where we find the 6th
Statute: 'The quhilk day, it being understand that the ignorance
and incivilitie of the saidis Iles hes daylie incressit be
the negligence of guid educatioun and instructioun of the
youth in the knowledge of God and good letters for remeid
quhair of it is inactit that every gentilman or yeamen within
the saidis Ilandis, or any of thame, haveing childerine maill
or famell, and being in goodis worth thriescore ky, sall put
at the leist their eldest sone, or haveing no children maill
thair eldest dochter, to the scuillis in the Lowland and interteny
and bring thame upthair quhill that may be found able sufficientlie
to speik reid and wryte Inglishe (Register of Privy Council
1609, IX 28-29)'
....even the remotest and most patriotically Gaelic clans
were well able by the 18th centrury to speak English and well
able to accommodate themselves to the customs of the southern
parts of the realm
-Taken from Donald C. Fraser's essay 'Some Highland Causes
of the '45', published in "The '45 to gather an image
whole", The Mercat Press. Resourced from 'Argyll in the
Forty Five: j Ferguson 1951' and 'Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981:
C.W.J. Withers (John Donald) 1983.
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