[766] R. Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1869, p. 217.

[767] Macgibbon and Ross’s Castellated Architecture of Scotland, ii. 174.

[768] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 255.

[769] Ib., p. 215.

[770] Correspondence of Boswell and Erskine, ed. 1879, p. 26.

[771] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, i. 161.

[772] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, i. 161, 173.

[773] Temple’s Works, ed. 1757, i. 160.

[774] Scotland and Scotsmen, i. 161. The Earl of Chesterfield, writing to his son in the year 1751, says: “I do not indeed wear feathers and red heels, which would ill suit my age; but I take care to have my clothes well made.” Letters to his Son, ed. 1774, iii. 227.

[775] Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1874, p. 531.