Note 31 — Chapter I
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Wade's speech, Parl. Hist., 1741. We find, however, that the town of Berwick was sensible enough to ask for barracks in 1717. Warrant Books, vol. lii. p. 314. Edinburgh also petitioned later that some might be built in the Canongate. Ibid., vol. lv., 24th April 1729.