The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

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IGC^.] AGIIKKMEXT WITH A l>K.\A\ DKK (
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liad ii'it (iiily iillecteil tlic Liir>l, If.il ntlicr tuiiiilirs. \lc wrote, "The
I\[an[iiis iif lluiitlies hi-dtln-r, (.allil Lnnl Charles, cmne licir that, same verie
day ye got your deereit, iVaiiL^'htit wiih iiiijiloyuu'iii is tVoin ye I'xuge tu ve
lyk jiiirpos, bot he ov vthn-is tliat iineiids that way hes aiie cold coiiiiort." '
As Alexander Grant continued ti> possess th^- ^^ains of Arul'ion, it
maybe inferred that the Laird was not disposed \"- resent tliisaiiion of
his brtitlier, yet the latter did niit cease from t roublinL;'. 'i'lie Laird
lent him one thousand f>ur hundi'od and eighty mei'ks in I'if)?,'" hut
appears to have been g'lad, in Ifiii-J, (o cancel not oidv this dobi but also
several feu-duties, and every other claim he had upon his broilua-, on
condition that Alexander would remove from tlie lands which he helil
in Mulben. The a^-reement was matle at Forres on 8th .lanuarv ](ir>'J.
Alexander thereliy became bound to remove before the •_'lth of that
month, or forfeit the benefit of the cancellation."' A notai'ial instrument.
dated the "JSth Jaiuiary l(jr.2. narrates that on that day John CJregorie
in Kyntra appeared at Mulben as the Laird's procurator, beariuL;" in his
hands this condescendence, and requiring- its fulfilment. Whereupon
Alexander Grant immediately passed to the mill, turned out the millers,
and gave the Laird's procurator possession of tlie mill. Tlie tenants'
houses were then successively visited, the tenants ejected, and informed
by Alexander Grant that they were no longer his servants, and had nothing
more to do with him, save to pay him what they owed to him. and that
now they were the tenants of the Laird of Grant. A visit to the barn-
yards followed, where the horses and cattle were turned out, such doors as
were fitted Avith locks were locked, others fastened with i)ins, and the keys
delivered up ;
and finally, the dwelling-house, with outhouses, were cleared
of their inhabitants, leaving only some furniture therein which could not
be so readily removed, and the keys made over to the procurator. Alex-
ander Grant then took instruments in the notary's hands that he had
fulfdled his part of the condescendence, ami the {U'ocurator lit a lire in the
hall in the name of the Laird of Grant, and intimated that Alcxaiidi'r
' Original Letter, George Stewart to James Grant (J rant of Kreiicliie, dated -JOtli May 10.57, registered
of Frenchie, dated 6tliDeeemberlti.'>.'i.ati 'aatlefJraiit. iM .\iij,'iist njr>l,at Castli- (_a-aiit,
Extract Bond by Alexander Grant to James ^ *-'"l>y of Condescendence, I'i/'/.
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