The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

37G SIi; JAMICS (.;i;aNT OF CIUAXT, r.AUONKT. [171D-
II would ;i]>|>ear that Sir James, after some emisideration, assented to
those proposals, as no I'urthor ])roeeediiij4's resulted, and in the fullowini.','
Year Liidovick CoUjuhoun completed his feudal- title to the harony of Lnss.
While Sir James was thus enu'ai'od with his son Liilovick he received
several h'tters, containinu' mneli "'ood advice, I'rom hi, eccenf.ic brother-
in-law, Simon Fraser, Lord Lr, vtt. He writes:— ". . . ] bej^' you suspend
your wrath till all be riuhtiv e- amin'd, and remember \shat 1 told yoii in
my last, that he (Jjudn\iL-k) truly is the hopes of your family, but he must
be an oljedient son ; and
truly >'on deserve obedience and aibection from
your childercn, Ibr you have l)een the most tender and iuthdi;vnt father
that evei' was, and I think you was too much that way, Init it's erring- on
the light side; but I am absolutly for peace, and I know it is for yoin-
interest, . . . so, for God's sake, set humour aside, and be fully reconcibd ;
and if Louis does amiss, let him ask your pard(.in on his knees, and never
olfend you any more."'
As Member of Parliament for the county of Inverness, Sir James CJrant
natiu'ally took a deej) interest in the elections. There is no evidence in the
Grant corres{)ondence of any change or dilHc\dty as to the representation
of the countv until aliout 1702, when the inlluence of the Lord Advocate.
Duncrm Forbes (_)f Gullden, was bi'ought to bear on the gentlemen of the
neisj-hboiu'hoocL A curious account of an electioneering intrigue is ••iven
by Alexander Brodie of Brodie, who was Lyon King-of-Ai-ms, ami member
for the county of Nairn, in a. letter to Ludovick Grant on 4th October
1732. After referring to the decease of Mr. Grant's elder bi'other.
to the concert made with the
Humphrey, ^Ir. Brodie says:— ". . . As
a. 206. - Tlie CiilluiUn family ^v^re cxtuiisivu distillers.