The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

372 SIR JAMKS iniANT OF OnVXI', HAlIdXKT. [1719-
dated -Itll and 27tli Deceiiilicr 1700,' assumed llie suniaiue of Colqulioun.
He is subsequently mentioned as concerned in several transactions as to
lands ill tlie barony of Luss.' lie also accomjianied liis father-indaw on
wliat was known as the " Lochlonioud Ex|.)cdition,"
:' movement made
af^ainst the ^Macgregois in 17 15 to s< urc the boats c. Loclil'juiond, and
thus hinder that clan in their nredatorv excuisions. Too Macreo-ors had
hastened to join the Earl of 3ilar, and, in order to tit themselves out for
service, had plundered their neighbours in Dumbartonshire of arms, hoi-ses,
etc. Among other apjiropriations they had taken possession of all the boats
upon Lochlomond, and it was resolved by Sir Hum])lirey Colquhoun and
others to recover these boats. To this end a considerable body of arnietl
men left Dumbarton on the r2t]i October 1715, and were joined on
their way to Luss liy a number of noblemen and gentlemen of the
locality. At Luss, whei-e they spent the night, they were met by Sir
Humphrey Colquhoun and " James Grant of Pluscarden his son-indaw,
. followed by forty or tifty stately fellows in tlieir .short hose and
belted plaids, armed each of them with a welldixcd gun on his shoulder.
a strong handsome target, with a sharp pointed steel of about half an
ell in length screwed into the navel of it, on his left arm, a sturd\'
claymore by his side, and a pistol or two, ^^'itll a dirk and knife in
liis belt." The volunteers were met by the country-people \vith alarmino-
stories about the numbers of the Maco-reo-ors and the dangers of encotuitering
them, " but all could not dishearten these brave men ; they knew that
the Macgregors and the devil are to be dealt with after the same manner,
and that if they be resisted they will ilee." The enterprise was completely
successful as regarded the obtaining possession of the boats, and the
volunteers encounteied no rebels, save '"'an auld wife or two."''
Sir Hunqihrey Colquhoun was not only desirous to carry out in all
points the marriage settlement of his daughter, but he also especially
wished that failing the heirs-male of his own body, the title of Baronet
should l>e iidierited by hLs son-in-law, James Grant, and the heu's-male of
' The Chiefs of Colciuliouii, b_v William Fi.-uti, = "The Lochlomond Expeilition, etc., 1715,''
vol. i. p. 311. quoted in The (Jiiiefs of Colquhoun, vol. i. pp. .S'2."),
2 IhiJ. p. 3-23, etc. 320.