particular things Mary maintained houses in London and in Edinburgh, employing Nicholas Stone and Isaac de Caus to work on her house in Aldersgate, which was later known as Lauderdale House. She built a summerhouse at Twickenham Park and decorated it with blue gilt leather recycled from her Scottish houses. At Highgate she extended an existing building, which survives and is known as Lauderdale House. In Edinburgh she rebuilt the house in the Canongate now called Moray House, employing the master mason William Wallace and the painter John Sawers. She had two sets of chairs made in London in the latest Italianate fashion. There was a suite of three garden vault rooms with a black marble banqueting table. A gallery room was furnished with a couch bed and hung with at least 30 pictures. The garden included terraces, a mount, walks and wilderness, and two summerhouses. She had cherry, plum, apple, apricot, fig, and damson trees. Lady Home wrote an 8-point list of conditions for the empolyment of her gardeners, John Simpson and Christopher, forbidding them to sell any garden produce. She owned a copy of John Parkinson's Herbal, and with her cousin Lucy, Countess of Bedford, can be associated with the artist Nathaniel Bacon who painted still lifes of fruit and vegetables, and a network of women connected with the court who were enthusiastic fruit growers, including Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall. In February 1633, the Earl of Morton obtained her permission for the house to be at the disposal of Charles I during his visit and coronation in Scotland, but the plan was cancelled due to the death of her son. She kept detailed inventories of her houses which record purchases made in London, listing beds, tapestries, and her books including volumes of sermons and a work penned by Esther Inglis. She had distilling equipment, loadstones, telescopes, a weather glass, and bronzes by Francesco Fanelli. She listed paintings by subject and noted that some were bought from George Geldorp, others from the New Exchange, many with religious subjects including the Nativity and Christ and the Samaritan Woman. She acquired items with Harrington knot heraldry from the sale of the effects of her cousin the Countess of Bedford, and a set of silver candleholders that had belonged to Marie de' Medici, mother of Henrietta Maria. These inventories include notes she wrote for her housekeepers and their