34 FISHINGS OFF THE COAST OF BRITAIN 
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 civility and to speak the English 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 families, 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 accomplishment 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 containing 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. 
1Cal. 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.) 
