. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . James Leslie, one of the officers left by Mackayin the north, in a letter to that General says : I am certainely informdthat 500 of the rebells were come to Urquett; they threatned the castle,but I looke upon it to be in little danger. He names a Captain Grant ascommander of that fortress and as taking provisions to the place, andstates his intention of sending for three companies of Colonel Grantsregiment and others to strengthen his position, which he bel
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . James Leslie, one of the officers left by Mackayin the north, in a letter to that General says : I am certainely informdthat 500 of the rebells were come to Urquett; they threatned the castle,but I looke upon it to be in little danger. He names a Captain Grant ascommander of that fortress and as taking provisions to the place, andstates his intention of sending for three companies of Colonel Grantsregiment and others to strengthen his position, which he believes to Some weeks later General Mackay wrote to Lord Melvill, The Laird of Grants regement in the north about Indernesse havemade lately, out of houses where they are partly posted, som successfullinterpryses upon thier neighbouring rebells, because they know the con-venience of the ground, which he alleges other troops in Blair Atholeand elsewhere were not able to do, being strangers in the district. He 1 Memoirs of Lochiel, p. 253. 2 Ibid. pp. 254, 255. 3 Mackays Memoirs, Appendix, pp. 299, 300. 6th December 2< o < u zo Q -IO 1716.] THE GRANT REGIMENT IN 1689. 317 therefore deprecates any interference with his arrangements, or anychanging of the troops from place to This shows that the Lairdsregiment was actively employed. As to the appearance of the Lairds regiment, it is always favourablyspoken of. Referring to it shortly after 1st June 1689, General Mackayin his narrative describes it as levied, but as yet without clothes, arms, ordiscipline, and therefore not to be wholly depended It was left atInverness and Elgin to defend these places and the country round, beingquartered there along with Lord Strathnavers regiment. At a later date(12th October) General Mackay writes to Lord Melvill his belief that Strathnaver and Grant have as good men as any of the Ten clayslater he expresses an opinion that they are the best and compl
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