. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . often devised, butrendered impossible by the troublous nature of the times. As will beshown in the memoirs of the chiefs, Urquhart often suffered severely intribal and more widespread civil dissensions, and it was not until the middleof last century that circumstances permitted the application of the morecivilising agencies of life to Urquhart. Brigadier Alexander Grant had itin view to build a town on a beautifully situated moor between Balmacaanand the ch
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . often devised, butrendered impossible by the troublous nature of the times. As will beshown in the memoirs of the chiefs, Urquhart often suffered severely intribal and more widespread civil dissensions, and it was not until the middleof last century that circumstances permitted the application of the morecivilising agencies of life to Urquhart. Brigadier Alexander Grant had itin view to build a town on a beautifully situated moor between Balmacaanand the church of Urquhart, but it was left to Sir James Grant, commonlycalled the good Sir James, to execute tins purpose, which he did aboutthe year 1767. The town was to be named Lewistown or Kihnore, and SirJames intended that it should consist of one great street about sixty feetwide, and several smaller streets about twenty-four or thirty feet in and artisans were to be invited to settle, the harbour wasto be rendered commodious and safe, good roads were to be constructed 1 Registrant Magni Sigilli, vol. ii. p. Lui (X XCO 00 > < xxo- DC X _JO < XXI o- crx to< THE CASTLE OF URQUHART. lxxxiii and maintained to facilitate communication, and a weekly market was to beheld, with fairs at appointed times. Being a remote estate, considered, in fact, as a distant province,Uiquhart was usually administered by a chamberlain, whose house andoffices were at Balmacaan. The chamberlain was also baron-bailie, andpresided in the courts appointed for the dispensation of justice. For thislatter service he received from each of the tenants what was denominated the bailie-darracks, or services from the tenants, which being discretionary,were often very oppressive. In the time of Sir Ludovick Grant (1747-1773) these are stated to have been the labour of seventy-two horses forone day yearly, and of twenty-four reapers in harvest. The castle of Urquhart is situated on
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