Series 2 > Seafield correspondence from 1685 to 1708

1690]
FIRST EARL OF SEAFIELD
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did at Eden. This is not that I doubt but ye made good
use of your short putting club ther. So hoping ye will
give my humble service to all the Ladies and Lords with
you, I remain Yours, James Ogilvie.
Nihil mihi rescribas attamen ipse veni with Mr Patricke.
Carnoustie or Carnousie in Forglen, Banffshire, was the property
of George Gordon of Edinglassie.
Of the few north of the Grampians, who from the outset actively
supported the revolution, no one was more convinced of its
justice or more influential than Ludovick, eighth laird of Grant.
Elected commissioner for Inverness-shire to the Convention, he
supported the settling of the crown on William, and was one of
the select committee nominated to settle the government. When
Dundee broke north, General Mackay at once concerted measures
with him. In consequence the laird of Grant hurried north to
raise his clan, embodying it in a regiment under his own command.
It did excellent work for William in the north during the whole
rising. The following letter is to his brother-in-law Lord Boyne.
ffor MY LORD BOYNE thes
Ballachastell, the 22 September 1690.
My Lord,—I have returned the mear ye wreat off, and
if any more off your servants horses can be gott tryel off
in this country they shall not want them; but for what
is off them in Badinoch I canot serve you in that, for
I want a hundered horse went from this with Collonell
Livistoune, and I supose the greatest pairt off them ar
with my nighbours off Badinoch. But wherin I can be
off use.comand me as being, Your affectionat brother and
humble servantt, Ludouick Grantt.
The act abolishing patronage on condition that patrons were
compensated was passed on 19th July 1690. On 7th June
1690, Parliament established Presbyterian church government,
but the actual settling of the church on its new basis in the
north took several years.
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