. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . e; . . the wester gallarie, one dark couloi-ed clothbed, lyned with red cessnot; . . the easter gallarie, one grein stuff bed;. . the roome above the dressing-roome, one blew stampt worsted stuffbed ; . . the roome above young Grantes roome, one strip bed of hemp andworsted stuff; . . Gellowayes roome, an old dark coulered cloth bed, andcorresponding furniture in each of these rooms. There are also mentionedthe drawing-room, the dining-room, the school cham
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . e; . . the wester gallarie, one dark couloi-ed clothbed, lyned with red cessnot; . . the easter gallarie, one grein stuff bed;. . the roome above the dressing-roome, one blew stampt worsted stuffbed ; . . the roome above young Grantes roome, one strip bed of hemp andworsted stuff; . . Gellowayes roome, an old dark coulered cloth bed, andcorresponding furniture in each of these rooms. There are also mentionedthe drawing-room, the dining-room, the school chamber, the nursarie,Rories chamber, and Dugalls chamber, two rooms in the new wark, andthe women house. Other portions of the inventory deal with generalfurniture, wardrobes, bedding, napery, kitchen and pewter vessels, andamong the silver plate are mentioned, ane large cup with ane cover, giftedbe the Laird of Grant to his sone George, a gilded bason, a gilded laver, two 1 The longest gun has engraved on the barrel, Clerk to the Laird of Grant; and on one of the largest brass blunderbusses is inscribed,rocket pistol. Grants. z< o h- < o h-< Q a:o UJ IT<I- PORTRAITS OF GRANTS AT THE CASTLE. xliii posset cups, a gilded cup with a cover, ane old-ffashioned cup and cover,a porringer, ane litle brandie cup, with knives, forks, candlesticks, There is a pleasant summer parlour, wrote Mrs. Grant of Laggan,after a visit to the Castle in 1785, to a friend, opening with a glass doorto the garden, the walls of which are entirely covered with the portraitsof those lesser gentry around, who were attached, many of them, by thedouble tie of kindred and feudal subjection. This last was rather patriarchalsway, as they managed it. Never, surely, was power so gently used, orjjrotection so gratefully acknowledged. Those endearing, though invisibleand undefinable ties, that have for generations held these people so stronglyto each other and to their chief, produce united effects, wh
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