The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

300 lADOVlCR (aiANT, KICIITII ol' Fi;i;i:cll I K AM) OK CHANT. |1GG:;-
G'lenmoristoii, C'drrieniuny, Anclieruacli, Tiilldcli-^iu'iii, Gartinbci;-, ainl
others, are iiieludi'd iiikUt this clause, and as the (hites correspond, the
entry in the T^aird of Ihodic's (hary may refer to tljese, as their chief
ijiig'ht be responsihU^ fa- tlieir appearance at Inverlochv.
So much opj)res'ion luid jirevailed during- the stav of the "' Highland
Host" in the western counties that innuediately on its dej)arture the
Covenanters I'ose in insurrection. A contributory circumstance was the
defeat of Graham of Claverhouse and the Koyalist troops mider his com-
mand, by a body of armed Tovenanters at Drumelog. The victory thus
gained raised the spirits of the people of the west to such a heiglit, that
they gathered in large numbers and marched restlessly through the country.'
The defeat of the Government troops, and the exaggerated reports as to
the numbers concerned in the risuig, greatly alarmed those iii authority, and
the Privy (Council sent for levies to all parts of the kingdom. Ludovick
Grant's neighbour, Lachlan Mackuitosli of Torcastle, is known to have l)een
summoned,-' and the Laird himself apjiears also to have received the Council's
orelers and to have responded to them. The deci.sive contiict of liothwell
Bridge on 22d June 1G79, probably rendered active service on the part of
the Grants lumecessary, but at a later period the Laird claimed considera-
tion from the Government of King James the Seventh for zeal and for-
wardness in aiding to suppress the rebellion of 1G79.^
In the following year the Duke of York came to Scotland on a visit
as Lord High Commissioner. He bi-ought with him his wife, Maiy of Este,
and his daufditer the Princess Anne. His administration at a later date was
distinguished for its severity, but at tliis period, according to cnntemporarv
testimony, he conducted himself in such a way as contrasted favoiu-ably
with the intolerance of Lauderdale's ministry, and gained for him the retraixl
of many. That the Duke desh-ed to ingratiate himself with all classes is
implied in a letter written by James Grant of Dalvey, advocate, to the
Laird of Freuchie, urging the latter to come south and appear at the Couil
of His Royal Highness. The tirst sentence of the letter may refer to legal
atlairs, but the Laird's clansman is evidently anxious that his chief should
• History of Scotland, tiy -Jcibn Hill Biirtou, - Tlie M.ickintoslns and Clin < h;Ut:iii, p. .'ilU-
vol. vii. )) '_"26. * Draft I'etition In IiiS,"), at Castle (Jrant.