The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

1773.] Hl.'^ DKATll AND JIUIIIAI,. 437
pliieed niiiono- tlioso confined on Imai'il tho King's sliips, wlicii^ tliey cnduroil
great suilering, and wliu were al'tei'waids translerifil tn 'Pill)ur\' l'\)i'i. It
does not ap]>ear, liowever, that .Mi'. Ciiant's appeal had ;iny eJlret npnn the
ng-,.r,,iis deal'iig ot'the (iiivernineni \\'ith tin .-r unl'Dilnnate nv, ii.^
On tli. death cil' his father, which to'! place on IHi! .'anuarv 1747,
]\h. •'rant succeeded to the esta(-'s of Cirant, and liecaU; iSlr L : lovick
G;.n>i of Grant, ]jai-onet,as the eld- st surviving heir-nude of the bod\ of his
fathei', to Avhoni tlie l)ari:>netcy was limited by the ivgrant made I)y Queen
Anne. Sir Ludovick continued his duties as a mendx'i' of J'arliament, and
as such was appealed to for liis interest on liehalf tif more than one Jacobite
prisoner, es])ecially the Master of JjOvat and ]\Jactlonell oi' (dengarrv."
Sir Ludovick also took a deep intei'est in anything that atl'ecteil his
name or family. When John Gi'ant, Baron Elchies, decided to sell the
estate of Easter Elchies, Sir Ludovick was anxious to jmrchase it, that it
niiglit still belong to a Grant." Although at llie time he was di.sajtpointed,
as the estate was sold to the Earl of Findlater, Easter ]