[254] Robertson, in his _Rural Recollections_ (Irvine, 1829), says:
‘The earliest evidence that I have met with of potatoes in Scotland
is an old household book of the Eglintoune family in 1733, in which
potatoes appear at different times as a dish at supper.’ They appear
earlier than this—namely, in 1701—in the household book of the
Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth, where the price per peck is
intimated at 2s. 6d.—See Arnot’s _History of Edinburgh_, 4to, p. 201.