The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

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or ollierwise disposed of at liis ploiisiirc. On tlic clianibcrlain aUciiipt-
ing to proceed with the suwinu-, Ali'xaiider (Ji'ant " i)Kickit ihc I'orsaid
savcinj^ sheit from his jieek, and coinandit ]iini to pass and sawe no nior
till that he duu tjuhicli is alorsaid." Tlie chaiuh.rlain therefore desisted,
and jirotested that the dischar^l.• and coiidesceinlL-nee made belwi-en the
Laird and Alexander Grant should be null. Alexander ans\' ered in
reply that he was most willing- to jierfunn whatever of tlie condescend-
ence was not vet performed, and tliat nothiu"- ouii-ht to be null till their
friends had considered tlie matter, and till the servants were satisfied
for their services.'
As opposed to the discontent displayed by Alexander Cuant, the
Laird received from his other brothers and unmarried sister a testimony of
liis kindness towards them. It was evoked by tlie conduct of their
brother Alexander, whose views of his own ill-treatment they not only did
not share, but strongly rej)robated. As for his sister.-^, they said, he had
matched two," and their marriages have been already adverted to. The
third, Lilias, was not married until after her brothers death, but he
bec|ueathed her poiiion of hve thousand pounds in his will.''
In this Laird's time, nuich was done to consolidate the Grant estates,
and to estal)lish them more hrmlv in the iHjssession of the familv. His
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increase of tlie system of wadsetting, introduced by his grandfather and
father, was very limited indeed in the circumstances in which he was jjlaced.
He redeemed a number of previous wadsets, and let the lands afterwards on
lease. Other wadsets he renewed on receiving payment of an additional
sum of money which might be taken to represent the increased value of
these lands. Amonf his new wadsets were those of Gartenmore in 1(147,
and Easter and Wester Daltulies or Balintomb in 1G5G, the latter being
granted for tifteen thousand merks to Archibald Grant, great-grandson of
Archibald, youngest son of James Grant, third Laird of Freucliie, who had
obtained the lands from his father as a residence. A iioriion of r.allintiimb
had been wadset by the Laird to Archibald Grant for one thousand poumls
in 1G39.'
' Xutari.il lustruiiient dated at Dflmaint-, l.'ith - V..1. iii. cf lliis wmk. p. ."JIJ. ^ //,;,/ j, ^jo
Mareli 1002, at Castle (jrant. * Houselmld Account, 10.'i;i, at Castle firant.