[A1706/10/31]¹

[Draft recommendation in favour of Alexander Grant, younger, of that ilk]

13 March 1707

Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard the petition of Alexander Grant, younger, of that ilk, in name and behalf of his father, humbly shewing unto them that he, having applyed to the last parliament (there take in the petition) as the said petition bears, for instructing whereof there was produced for the petitioner the forsaid act and recommendation of parliament, dated the tenth day of July 1695 years: Upon the application of Lodovick Grant of that ilk, bearing the parliament to have remitted to a committie for privat affairs the consideration of a report of his losses and damnadges with the instructions thereof, and the said committie to have reported to the parliament their opinion, finding that the laird of Grant and his vassalls and tennents losses amounted to ane hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and eighty six pounds, three shillings, ten pennys, besides thirty thousand pounds as five years rent of the barrony of Urquhart, and his maties then committie and the estates of parliament at that time have approven the said report of the laird of Grant and his said tennents damnages, and to have recommended him to his maties royall and gracious consideration for repairing of the losses and damnadges contained in the forsaid report, as is more fully exprest in the said act and recommendation; and her majesties high commissioner and the said estates of parliament, having fully considered the said petition now given in to them by the said Alexander Grant, younger, in name and behalf of his father, as is abovementioned, they granted and hereby grant the desire thereof and recommended and hereby recommend the petitione to her maties royall and gracious consideration for repairing his losses and damnadges covered in the report.