Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

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Sir Alexander Brand, but the price not having been paid at the time of
the former's death, the sisters claimed it as executors, and were successful,
'• the Lords having, by a narrow plurality, found the price 11 moveable.*
It seems now to be pretty evident, that the real cause of the removal
of Lady Grange was her having become acquainted with her husband^
intrigues with the Court of St. Germains. She was a woman of violent
temper, and having attained knowledge of this important secret, when-
ever she was displeased, threatened her husband with exposure. It be-
came, therefore, absolutely necessary, not merely for his security, but for
the safety of his numerous Jacobite friends, that her Ladyship should be
removed. Lord Lovat is generally supposed to have managed the " en-
levement, 11 but in a letter from him to Mr. Thomas Frazer, writer at
Edinburgh, dated " Beafort, 16th September 1732," he positively denies
having any hand in the matter. " As to that story about my Lord
Grange, it is a much less surprise to me, because they said ten times
worse of me when that damn'd woman went from Edin: than they can
say now ; for they said that it was all my contrivance, and that it was
my servants that took her away ; but I defy'd them then, as I do now,
and do declare to you, upon honour, that I do not know what is become
of that woman, where she is, (this is written over, " who takes care of
her, 11 which is erased), or who takes care of her ; but if I had contrived,
and assisted, and saved my Lord Grange from that devil, who threaten 1 d
every day to murder him and his children, I would not think shame of
it before God or man ; and where she is, I wish and hope that she may
never be seen again, to torment my worthy friend.
After remaining about nine years in St. Kilda, Lady Grange was re-
moved to Assint in Sutherland, and from thence transferred to the Isle
of Skye, where she died. She was confined for some time in Castle
Tirrim, Clanronald's seat in the north, — attempting to make her escape
* Fountainhall, vol. 2, p. 250 — December 22, 1704.