[29] Hamstringed.
[30] Memorie of the Somervilles, vol. ii. p. 271.
[31] This house was demolished in 1836.
[32] Jackson’s History of the Stage, p. 418.
[33] See Notes from the Records of the Assembly Rooms of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: 1842. In the eighteenth century a lady’s ‘night-gown’ was a special kind of evening-dress, often of silk brocade, &c., other than full dress; and a gentleman’s night-gown was a dressing-gown, not a bed-garment.
[34] It was a ball in the room of the Old Assembly Close building which Goldsmith describes in the letter quoted, and in which public assemblies were revived in 1746. The new rooms in Bell’s Wynd were opened in 1756.
[35] Called the ‘Ovir Bow Port.’ It stood about the line of the present Victoria Terrace.
[36] This house was demolished in 1835, to make way for a passage towards George IV. Bridge.
[37] Taken down in 1839.
[38] Demolished in 1833.