Fascinating Gaelic Gravestone Inscription

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Gaelic education, not usage was what was proscribed - at least for the children of the chiefs. I think there was also a push to build roads and English schools in the Highlands after the '45.

The wording of the last section of the Act of Proscription is possibly the background to this practice.

.....That from and after the first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forth six, it shall not be lawful for any person in Scotland to keep a private school for teaching English, Latin, Greek, or any part of literature, or to officiate as a master or teacher in such school; or any school for literature, other than those in universities, or established in the respectively royal burghs, by publick authority, or the parochial schools settled according to law, or the schools maintained by the society in Scotland for propogating christian knowledge, or by the general assemblies of the church of Scotland, or committees thereof, upon the bounty granted by his Majesty......

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any parent or guardian shall put a child or children under his care to any private school that shall not be registered according to the directions of this act, or whereof the principal master or teacher shall not have registered the certificate of his having qualified himself as herein directed, every such parent or guardian so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted before any two or more justices of the peace, or before any other judge competent of the place summarily, shall, for the space of three months.