Holy Trinity, Tewkesbury.
[Footnote 5: Scot or Scott is applied only to the men of Gaelic extraction
in our old records.]
_Brydone the Tourist's Birth-place_ (Vol. vii., p. 108.).--According to
Chambers's _Lives of Scotsmen_, vol. i. p. 384., 1832, Brydone was the son
of a clergyman in the neighbourhood of Dumbarton, where he was born in the
year 1741. When he came to England, he was engaged as travelling preceptor
by Mr. Beckford, to whom his _Tour through Sicily and Malta_ is addressed.
In a copy of this work, now before me, I find the following remarks written
in pencil:
"These travels are written in a very plausible style, but little
dependence is to be placed upon their veracity. Brydone never was on
the summit of Ætna, although he describes the prospect from it in such
glowing colours."
It is right to add, that the writer of these remarks was long a resident in
Italy, and in constant habits of intercourse with the most distinguished
scholars of that country.