COLONEL JAMES GEAHAM, THIRTEENTH MASTEE. 181 



nothing further of him until March 3, 1696, when he, the 

 Hon. Bernard Howard, and other Jacobites, were again in 

 durance vile. Probably deeming the cause to which he had 

 hitherto so steadfastly adhered hopeless, he took the oath of 

 allegiance of King William in 1701, and henceforth attached 

 himself to Whigs. In December 1702 the Government ob- 

 tained a judgment in the Court of Exchequer against Colonel 

 Graham for the recovery of 1,250/., which sum, it was alleged, 

 he had informally received from the Treasury for providing 

 " healing medals " (used in the function of touching for the 

 King's Evil) for the late King's Privy Purse. The Sheriff of 

 Westmoreland, in due course, was directed to execute this 

 judgment, whereupon Colonel Graham petitioned the Lord High 

 Treasurer (Sidney Godolphin) to order the Queen's Remem- 

 brancer of the Exchequer to stay proceedings until the first 

 day of the next term, by which time he hoped to be able to 

 make up and pass his accounts. This application was 

 apparently granted ; and on April 19, 1703, he further 

 petitioned Queen Anne to be discharged from the liability, to 

 which Her Majesty graciously acceded, consequently these 

 proceedings of the Treasury were quashed {Treasury Papers, 

 vol. Ixxiii., fo. 57). The large sums of money which this 

 Master of the Royal Buckhounds had to distribute for " heal- 

 ing medals " may be inferred from the circumstance that 

 James II., during his brief progress in the summer of 1687, 

 " touched " no less than five thousand persons, many of whom 

 were charged with fraudulently representing themselves 

 scrofulous in order to obtain the pecuniary benefit incidental 

 to the ceremony. He represented the county Westmoreland in 

 the several Parliaments summoned in the years 1701, 1702, 

 1705, 1708, 1710, 1718, 1715, and 1722. About the year 1685 

 Colonel Graham bought Levins and other lands in the county 

 Westmoreland of Allan Bellingham, Esq. — " an ingenious but 

 unhappy young man who consumed a vast estate " * — and 

 after 1701 he seems to have chiefly resided there during the 



* Evidently a hunting family, as their arms were argent, three hunting horns ; 

 crest, a buck's head couped or. 



