1629

Charles I directs that the Fife antiquarian James Balfour should be given funds to publish Timothy Pont's maps

To guard against "a great infection of the contagious sickenesse of the pest" (plague) occuring in Shetland, Orkney and Bordeaux, the Privy Council directed all provosts and baillies along the sea coast and the banks of the Forth & Tay to prevent landing of ships, crews and goods from these areas until they were examined and found free of the disease.

The Privy Council ordered the Sheriff of Orkney and his deputies to confront growing insubordination to the Presbyterian kirks and ministers. The Shetlanders were accused of "impudent and proud refuisall in face of presbyterieis and in the presence of the magistrat to rander thair obedience, thair vyle raylings and imprecatiouns spewed out aganis the ministrie in thair faces, the upbraiding of thame at thair pulpits in the discharge of thair functiouns, the cartalling of thame at thair presbyteriall meetings, the threatning of thame to breake thair heads, to bullett thair bodeis, to battoun thame if they presoome to use the censures of the kirk aganis thame, the battoning of thair kirk officiars, the lying at await for the ministers awin lyffes, seeking thame be way of haimsuckin at thair awin houses for that effect, comming to the kirks on the Sabboth day with unlawfull weapouns to persew the ministers of thair lyfies, commanding thame most imperiouslie to forbeare the censuring of thame, threatning thame with present death if they dissobey. And besides this proud and malapert contempt of the ministrie and ordours and discipline of the kirk, the abominable cryme of incest is become most frequent and commoun within the saids bounds."

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