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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… the king, William Bruce's ambitious new house of Kinross also led to his derogation. To display excessive wealth in Scotland or France, where family lineage was the principal measure of status, was considered wholly inappropriate. Although lineage proved the strongest deterrent to the advent of …