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SEPARATION OF LUSS AND GRANT ESTATES. 313
lands, etc., or any part thereof, or to grant securities, redeemable or irre-
deemable, by infeftments or otherwise, nor to contract debts thereupon,
except in so far as they had power in the manner therein mentioned, nor
to violate or change in any way the order of succession above mentioned.
That the estate of Luss should never be absorbed in that of Grant, the
bond of tailzie expressly provided that it should never be held by the
Laird of Grant. Should the estate of Grant fall to the said James
Grant or to Humphrey, his son, or to any other heir-male of the same
marriage, then the next son of the same marriage should succeed to the
estate of Luss ; and, failing a son, the eldest heir- female of the same
marriage, without division ; whom failing, the heirs-male who should be
lairds of Grant of that Ilk, descending from the said Anne Colquhoun,
until a second son should exist, to whom the estate of Luss should belong ;
and such a son failing, the estate shoidd descend to the eldest heir-female
of the body of the said Anne Colquhoun, without division ; whom failing,
to the other heirs of entail of the said Sir Humphrey Colquhoun, in the
order foresaid.
It was the wish of Sir Humphrey that the possessor of the estate of
Luss should bear and perpetuate the name of Colquhoun. It was there-
fore provided by this bond of tailzie that the said James Grant, and his
son Humphrey, and the other heirs-male and female specified, who should
succeed to the said estate of Luss, etc., or the children of the said Anne
Colquhoun of any other marriage, should, upon their succession, change
their own surname, and assume and bear the surname, designation, and
arms of Colquhoun of Luss, and that all their descendants should assume
the surname of Colquhoun. 1
Various transactions took place between Sir Humphrey and his cousin,
Captain James Colquhoun of Silver Bank, who was the second son of Alex-
ander Colquhoun, the first of Tillyquhoun.
Sir Humphrey granted a precept of clare constat, dated at Eossdhu, 30th
September 1704, for infefting Captain James Colquhoun of Silver Bank and
1 This Bond of Tailzie was recorded iu the Register of Tailzies, at Edinburgh, 26th
February 1707.
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