Note 1 — THE CHANGES OF THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. [1745-1845.]
Reading edition
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.’