cause educat and bring them up in his owne house, or any other
convenient place, and ordaines letters to be direct at the said Sir William's
instance against Raeburn, for a maintenance to the saids children, and that the
said Sir Wm. give ane account of his diligence with all conveniency.«
 
»Edinburgh, 5th July 1666.
Anent a petition presented be Sir Wm. Scott of Harden, for himself and in name
and behalf of the three children of Walter Scott of Raeburn, his brother,
showing that the Lords of Councill, by ane act of the 22d day of Junii 1665, did
grant power and warrand to the petitioner, to separat and take away Raeburn's
children, from his family and education, and to breed them in some convenient
place, where they might be free from all infection in their younger years, from
the principalls of Quakerism, and, for maintenance of the saids children, did
ordain letters to be direct against Raeburn; and, seeing the Petitioner, in
obedience to the said order, did take away the saids children, being two sonnes
and a daughter, and after some paines taken upon them in his owne family, hes
sent them to the city of Glasgow, to be bread at schooles, and there to be
principled with the knowledge of the true religion, and that it is necessary the
Councill determine what shall be the maintenance for which Raeburn's three
children may be charged, as likewise that Raeburn himself, being now in the
Tolbooth of Edinburgh, where he dayley converses with all the Quakers who are
prisoners there, and others who daily resort to them, whereby he is hardened in
his pernitious opinions and principles, without all hope of recovery, unlesse he
be separat from such pernitious company, humbly therefore, desyring that the
Councell might determine upon the soume of money to be payed be Raeburn, for the
education of his children, to the petitioner, who will be countable therefor;
and that, in order to his conversion, the place of his imprisonment may be
changed. The Lords of his Maj. Privy Councell having at length heard and
considered the foresaid petition, doe modifie the soume of two thousand pounds
Scots, to be payed yearly at the terme of Whitsunday be the said Walter Scott of
Raeburn, furth of his estate to the petitioner, for the entertainment and
education of the said children, beginning the first termes payment therof at
Whitsunday last for the half year preceding, and so furth yearly, at the said
terme of Whitsunday in tym comeing till furder orders; and ordaines the said
Walter Scott of Raeburn to