THE CASE OF THE REV. JOHN GRANT, MINISTER OF URQUHART; AND OF ALEXANDER GRANT OF SHEUGLY IN URQUHART, AND JAMES GRANT, HIS SON 313 A NARRATIVE OF SUNDRY SERVICES PERFORMED, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF MONEY DISPOSED IN THE SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT DURING THE LATE REBELLION, BY WALTER GROSSETT 335 LETTERS AND ORDERS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF WALTER GROSSETT 379 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES OF PRESTON, FALKIRK, AND CULLODEN, BY ANDREW LUMISDEN, THEN PRIVATE SECRETARY TO PRINCE CHARLES 405 APPENDICES-- I. The Jacobite Lord Sempill 421 II. Murray and the Bishopric of Edinburgh 422 III. Sir James Steuart 423 IV. The Guildhall Relief Fund 429 V. Cardinal York’s Memorial to the Pope 434 VI. The Macdonalds 449 VII. Tables showing Kinship of Highland Chiefs 451 VIII. Lists of Highland Gentlemen who took part in the ’Forty-five 454 INDEX 459 INTRODUCTION James Francis Edward, King James III. and VIII. of the Jacobites, the Old Pretender of his enemies, and the Chevalier de St. George of historians, was born at St. James’s Palace on 10th June 1688. On the landing of William of Orange and the outbreak of the Revolution, the young Prince and his mother were sent to France, arriving at Calais on 11th December (O.S.);[1] the King left England a fortnight later and landed at Ambleteuse on Christmas Day (O.S.). The château of St. Germain-en-Laye near Paris was assigned as a residence for the royal exiles, and this château was the home of the Chevalier de St. George for twenty-four years. James II. and VII. died on 5th September 1701 (16th Sept. N.S.), and immediately on his death Louis XIV. acknowledged his son as king, and promised to further his interests to the best of his power. [Sidenote: The Scots Plot, 1703.[2]] The first opportunity of putting the altruistic intention of the King of France into operation occurred within a year of King James’s death, and the evil genius of the project was Simon Fraser, the notorious Lord Lovat.