The provision and support of Protestant ministers to Highland Parishes;
The establishment of hostelries;
The outlawing of beggars;
The prohibition of traditional hospitality and strong drink;
The education of chiefs’ heirs in Lowland schools where they “may be found able sufficiently to speik, reid and wryte Englische"
Limitations on the bearing and use of arms,
The outlawing of bards and other bearers of the traditional culture
The prohibition on the protection of fugitives
In the view of some writers, this enaction was "the first of a succession of measures taken by the Scottish government specifically aimed at the extirpation of the Gaelic language, the destruction of its traditional culture and the suppression of its bearers"Gaelic - A past and Future Prospect. MacKinnon, Kenneth. The Saltire Society 1991, Edinburgh. P 46
Further reading
Cathcart, Alison. "The Statutes of Iona: The Archipelagic Context," Journal of British Studies Jan. 2010,......