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332 IV. — LETTERS FROM SIMON LORD LOVAT. [1735.
426. To Sir James Grant of Grant — Hopes their union will be perpetual.
Beaufort, the 11 of Apryle 1735.
My dear Sir James, — I had the honour of your letter by this last post ; and I am very
much pleas'd when I get a letter under your hand that gives me an account of your health,
which shall be allways dear to me. I give you many thanks for your Parlement news. I am
much pleas'd that Lethen will be well supported, and if he was not it would be a signal
affront upon us ; and I beg you tell my Lord Hay that, as far as his Lordship hes any regard
for my solicitations, I join most heartily with you and with your son and with Calder for
Lethen, for our honour is concern'd that he should be supported.
I am very sory for the Lyon's most unaccountable behaviour to his best friends ; but,
as I say in Lewis' letter, let other people say and do as they please, I am fully resolv'd, as
long as their is breath in me, to be inviolably attach'd to your family, and will serve you
and yours with as much zeal as I will support my own family. So, my dear Craigelahy, I
hope our union will be unalterable and perpetuall. If you only go for your diversion to
Aix-la-Chapelle, I think you are in the right of it, for you may live as cheap ther as at Castle
Grant ; but I should be sory that your health should require your going. I refer you as to
me to Lowis' letter ; I reckon you and him the same person as to the support of my family,
and you are my plight anchors. I beg you asist Lowis Chapman, your own creature. I
bless God I am grown stronger. My Lady Lovat and your neveus are well, and we offer you
and Mr. James our most affectionat humble duty ; and I ever am, with much love and
respect, my dear Sir James,
Your affectionat brother and fathfull servant,
Lovat.
427. To The Same — The Lyon's imprudence — Duel between Cluny and Barisdale.
Beaufort, the 25t of Apryle 1735.
My dear Sir James, — I had the honour of your letter of the 12t, and I do assur you that
I wrot nothing in the letter you mention but the very sincere sentiments of my heart, sine
I sincerly belive that no man loves the standing of my family more than you do ; and I hope
that the strong friendship that is betwixt us will be continued to future ages, as long as both
familys subsist. This is and shall be my earnest wish. A strict union betwixt good familys
is a happy thing ; but when once solemnly united, it is a most dismal and unhappy thing
to break, for it is generaly observ'd that when friends become enemys they are the most
violent. I am heartily sory for the Lyon's vast imprudence, that hes brok our much boasted
of confederacy, which, if it had continu'd, would have been for great use and advantage and
honour to all the familys concern'd ; and the breaking up of that allayance will have the