[1] Mr W. B. Blaikie (_The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club_, vol.
ii.) gives a list of the occupants of a first-class tenement some
years subsequent to the ’45 Rebellion: ‘First-floor, Mrs Stirling,
fishmonger; second, Mrs Urquhart, lodging-house keeper; third-floor,
the Countess Dowager of Balcarres; fourth, Mrs Buchan of Kelloe; fifth,
the Misses Elliot, milliners and mantua-makers; garrets, a variety of
tailors and other tradesmen.’
[2] Pamphlet _circa_ 1700, Wodrow Collection, Adv. Lib.
[3] Brown Square finally disappeared with the making of Chambers Street.
[4] Mr William Cowan, in vol. i. of _The Book of the Old Edinburgh
Club_, says this exemption applied to the three eastmost tenements in
Princes Street.
[5] The late Bruce J. Home drew up in 1908 ‘A Provisional List of Old
Houses Remaining in High Street and Canongate,’ which was printed,
with accompanying map, in the first volume of _The Old Edinburgh Club
Book_. The statement is therein made ‘that since 1860 two-thirds of the
ancient buildings in the Old Town of Edinburgh have been demolished.’
The map showed, coloured in red, the remaining buildings of the Old
Town which had survived until the beginning of the twentieth century.