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Margaret Home, Countess of Moray

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In 1652, Margaret Home made over lands in Moray from her dowry or terce to her husband, so that he could sell them to meet their debts. He died in 1653. The Countess lived as a widow till 1683, she maintained Moray House in Edinburgh and its gardens, and planted woods at Donibristle. The writer
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Thomas Kirk saw the Mercury fountain in 1677. After her death, her factor, the lawyer Hugh Paterson, working with one of her grandsons to make inventories, found a fortune in silver plate hidden in a cupboard at the Canongate. Hugh Paterson was the builder of
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of Edinburgh, now known as Moray House. After her brother, the Earl of Home died in 1633, she received a share of the composition of the barony of Home. She and her husband refurbished their house at
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At Donibristle House, her cabinet included an early and luxurious telescope, bought in London in 1634 for £15 sterling. Books included volumes of sermons and a work penned by
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Marie-Louise Coolahan & Mark Empey, 'Women's Book Ownership and the Reception of Early Modern Women's Texts', in Leah Knight, Micheline White, Elizabeth Sauer,
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Michael Pearce, "Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500–1650", University of Dundee PhD thesis, 2016
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A happy husband or, Directions for a Maide to choose her Mate, As also, a Wives behaviour towards her Husband after Marriage
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In May 1650, the house in Canongate was used for the wedding party of her daughter
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Marilyn M. Brown & Michael Pearce, 'The Gardens of Moray House, Edinburgh',
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Recipes for sugar cakes and wafers written by Margaret Home, Countess of Moray
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Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation
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Charles Avery, 'Sculpture at Ham House', in Christopher Rowell,
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The vellum-bound recipe book of Margaret Home, Countess of Moray
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Henrietta Stuart, who married Hugh Campbell of Calder
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HMC Laing Manuscripts in the University of Edinburgh
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Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home
Mary Sutton, Countess of Home
James Home, 2nd Earl of Home
Viscount Falkland
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
The Tragedy of Mariam
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Mary Mildmay
Anne Home, Countess of Lauderdale
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
Patrick Hannay

James Stuart
Earl of Moray
Canongate
Donibristle
Mercury
Esther Inglis
Markham's
Parkinson's

Montrose
Mary Stuart
Lord Lorne
Archibald Johnston
Earl of Montrose
Royal Mile
James Drummond

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