The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

301 LllJOVlCK GKANF, IMOHTII OF KKIU'CHIi; AND OK (IKANT. [IGC.i-
of ;ill treasonalile desi^'us, contril)iii iiig money to Argyll, or llivoniing liim
or any rel)C'ls, or concealing or hearing liigh i reason, aiul oilier aiticles oi'
the libel.'
Janet Brodie, Lady Grant, stated that "she ^\d not kept the
l.irk till September IrM," as for nearly a year and a .wdf they -wanted a
minister ; that Mr. Alexander Fraser was Grant's servant belbre the Act
of Indemnity, and prayed in the family ; that she had heai'd Mr. James
Urquhart and j\lr. Alexander Dunbar ])ray and jn-each in Lethen since
the Act of Indemnity, and that she saw James Nimmo there ; that since
the Indenniity, ^Ir. Alexander Fraser had been in hei- house and had
prayed there ; that it was when her mother was bedfast and sick that she
heard Mr. Urquhart and Mv. Dunbar at Lethen, and that Mr. Alexander
Fraser was a preacher. She fvn-ther added to the above the statement that
she heard sermon on Sabbath at Newtyle, on her journey from Fdinliurgii :
that it was never her princijile to abstain from healing ujion ai-count of any
disloyalty or disrespect to the Government ; that Mr. Alexander Fraser
was a preacher lurder the Bishops, but was put off; that he was not their
servant since the Parliament, and that she knew not Ninnno to Ite a
suspected person.
The date of these depositions is not given, but on I
Itli Febmary IG85,
the commissioners pronounced sentence, in which, after a formal preamble
in the terms of the criminal letters, they declared that " in respect the
Lady Grant confesses two years and ane half's withdraA\ing from the
ordinances, having and keeping ane unlicenced chaplane, hearing outed
ministerls preach severall tyms. and that the Laird of Grant confesses the
keeping of the said imlicensed minister in his family, and hearing ane outed
minister preach once and i^-ay severall tymes : They therefore fyne and
amerciat the Laird of Grantt for his own and his Lady's delinquencies,
ii'regidarities, and disorders, in the sowm of fowrtie two thousand and fyve
hundreth punds Scottis mone, and ordain the said Laird of Grant to
make payment of the said fyne to his Majesteis cash keeper, betwixt and
the first day of May next to come, under the paine of Ijeing lyable in a
fyfth part more then the said fyne."
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' Copy Decl.iration and Dtijosition .it Coatlr (Iraiit. - //lid. ' Cojiy Seiiteiici', etc., at (Aistle firant.