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one whereof a town may be built with a Citadel to command 

 it." The Governor was to take order for the education of 

 the children of the inhabitants of those islands, to teach 

 them civiUty and to speak the EngHsh or Scottish tongue, 

 and especially to breed them to fishing. The intercourse 

 of the natives with the Highlanders of the mainland was to 

 be stopped " specially yt they may not intermarrie with 

 them." All foreigners, with their famihes, were to be 

 asked to leave the island, so that they might no longer 

 fish contrary to law. 



If the Earl of Seaforth sought to place any impediment 

 in the way of the accompUshment of these proposals, the 

 king was to take the island and eject all strangers himself. 

 A further proposal was that the Law Justices of Ireland 

 be instructed to send a fleet to clear the coasts of foreigners, 

 transport them to Ireland, and thence to their own countries. 

 The final proposal and one contaming a subtle element of 

 humour was that the Earl of Seaforth should be sent for 

 and " be made an adventurer." ^ It is to be feared that, 

 after all these drastic measures had been carried out on part 

 of his hereditary estate, he would have made no very active 

 member of the Company. 



'^Cal. S.P. Dom. Car. II., vol. 339, No. 111. "A Collection of Divers 

 Particulars touching the King's Dominion and Soveraignty in ye Fishing." 

 (April, 1633.) 



