When in more than ordinary spirits, and talking of his journey in Scotland, he has called to me, 'Boswell, what was it that the young lady of quality said of me at Sir Alexander Dick's ?' Nobody will doubt that I was happy in repeating it." Note 5 .-- EARL OF WINTON.
The incident here alluded to is thus narrated in Nichols' Progresses of James I., Vol.III.

p.306:-- "The family" (of Winton) "owed its first elevation to the union of Sir Christopher Seton with a sister of King Robert Bruce.

With King James VI.

they acquired great favour, who, having created his brother Earl of Dunfermline in 1599, made Robert, seventh Lord Seton, Earl of Winton in 1600.

Before the King's accession to the English throne, his Majesty and the Queen were frequently at Seton, where the Earl kept a very hospitable table, at which all foreigners of quality were entertained on their visits to Scotland.