. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . seen, took an active part in the affairs of his country,and for his services King Charles the Second intended to create him Earlof Strathspey. While the patent was in progress the Laird died suddenly,and the dignity was not confirmed to his son, then a minor, who afterwards,from his position, was commonly called the Highland King. When Lady Lilias Murray, Lady Grant, the grandmother of this Laird,wrote the memorandum of her childrens ages in 1622, she made
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . seen, took an active part in the affairs of his country,and for his services King Charles the Second intended to create him Earlof Strathspey. While the patent was in progress the Laird died suddenly,and the dignity was not confirmed to his son, then a minor, who afterwards,from his position, was commonly called the Highland King. When Lady Lilias Murray, Lady Grant, the grandmother of this Laird,wrote the memorandum of her childrens ages in 1622, she made a noteof the fact that James Grant, son to her son, would be six years old atthe ensuing term of Midsummer in that This makes the date ofhis birth 24th June 1616, and corroboration is found in the statement ofage on his portrait, which implies that he was forty-two in 1658, whenit was painted. When in his eighteenth year, James and some of hisbrothers were at Aberdeen for their education under the care of J. Leslie,who, in a letter to Sir John Grant respecting his charges, informs him of 1 Vol. iii. of this work, ]>. JAMES GRANT OF FREUCHIE,B. I6l6. D. 1663. 1663.] EARLY YEARS. 241 their good health and diligence in employing their time towards pro-ficiencye in learning,1 and in a letter to his grandmother, Lady Lilias,from Aberdeen, James Grant himself acknowledges the receipt of certainnecessaries which had been craved for him in his guardians the beginning of the following year Sir John Grant took one of hissons with him to Edinburgh, and left him in the care of Mr. JohnHay, Clerk of the Privy Council, who promised to treat him as his This, however, does not appear to have been James, as, in a letterto Sir John, David Murray, writing from Edinburgh under the same dateas Mr. John Hay, informs him that his son had departed for London incompany with the Clerk Register, with whom he had made an appointmentto meet at Tranent for the
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