The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 29 March 2024
[1609/4/16]1
2Act against children that become papists when they are out of Scotland
Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament ordain the noblemen, barons and others to have a special care and to give order and direction that the remainder of their sons out of the country shall be in places where religion is professed or at the least where there is no restraint of the same by the cruelty of inquisition, and that during the time of their absence they shall not frequent any idolatrous exercise of religion, and such persons as have not the means to maintain with their sons a pedagogue shall send them to such places where religion is professed; and in case their sons after their departure out of the country shall haunt the exercise of contrary religion, our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid ordain that their parents or such others as have the charge of them shall be forced to find caution acted in the books of secret council under such pains as shall be modified, that they shall not supply, entertain nor furnish them with anything necessary or comfortable to them after that it [be]3 known that their sons are become papists and practice idolatry contrary to the religion presently professed within Scotland, except their reasonable expenses in recalling and bringing them to this realm of Scotland.
- NAS, PA2/17, f.38v-39r.
- '4' written in margin beside heading.
- APS interpolation.