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122 III. — FAMILY AND DOMESTIC LETTERS. [1735.
196. Sir James Grant of Grant, Baronet, to his Son, Ludovick Grant, younger of
Grant — On the intended marriage of the latter.
Richmond, 4 October 1735.
Dear Lewie,- — I gott yours from Bamff last night. At present I can't gett such a full
answere sent as either I encline ore you desyr ; but, if possible, nixt post shall carie it. I can
only now ashure you that your design gives me infinit pleasure, and that there is nothing
in my power, reasonable to ask, but what I will most readilie contribut therto. That noble
familie is on of those I very deservedlie have the greatest honour for. I shall onlie now
desyr that you make my most humble dutie acceptable to them. Mean time goe on in
your design, and believe me, dear Lewie, yours, Ja. Grant.
To Ludovick Grant of Grant, Esquire, to Bamff bj r Edinburgh.
197. The Same to The Same — Details of marriage settlement.
Richmond, 7 October 1735.
Dear Lewie, — As I wrote you last, the design you have and did acquaint me of in your
letter gives me great pleasure, and there is nothing reasonable to ask and in my power to
give, but what I will willinglie agree to in bringing it to a conclusion. In order to which
I send you inclosed the paper you sent me, sign'd and writt by my selfe with very litle
variation, and what there is may, at meeting, be verie easily adjusted. I must own I had my
own scrouples in signing it ; but the trust I repose in you, after what you say in your letter,
is such that, rather then occasion any delay, I have ventur'd to doe it, though at the same
time I will expect that you '1 make noe other use of it then that the young ladie be secured
in a jointer agreeable to the portion gott with her, and that the sons (if any be) be secured
as to succeeding to the esteat in the terms of the entaile. On of the doubts and scrouples
I have is, that as there is debt on the esteat, and I by this deed putting myselfe in the
case of a bare liferenter, should it happen that you have a son of the marriage, and that
you should (which God forbid) dye some time therafter, how ore what power have I to
relieve my selfe after makeing over all the right at present in my person. As this is the
case, I desyr, and I doe expect, that you '1 make noe other use of this right, as you promise
in your letter, then to secure the ladie of her jointer ; and when we meet I may be more
fullie satisfied of my doubts by the advice of my friends. I believe you don't doubt my
haveing the good of the family at heart in all my actions, and will be readie to goe in to all
measures leading to that end.
As to the young ladie, I have agreed to her getting six thousand merks Scots of localitie
in jointer, in case she survive you ; but for that of annuitie I am utterlie against it, and can