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Traditions of Edinburgh

Note 171 — FEMALE DRESSES OF LAST CENTURY.

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This verse appears in a manuscript subsequent to 1760. The name, however, is Sleigh, not Lee. Mrs Mally Sleigh was married in 1725 to the Lord Lyon Brodie of Brodie. Allan Ramsay celebrates her.

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