written replies which form short dialogues. Lady Home wrote of an unsatisfactory inventory that it;"has byn wildely tacken in & are no way to bee trusted tow for comparein them with my own little book. I find in some roomes that neather in theare notes of what they say wants nor in that they say restes will bothe make up togeather which is sayde to bee in my booke of maney sondre partikeulor thinges." The housekeeper at Floors near Kelso, Jane Descheil, was married to the coachman, she paid cleaners, fed the cat and the turkeys, brewed ale, made honey, bleached cloth, supervised a carpenter mending buffet stools, and sewed a featherbed, while Lady Home was away. At Twickenham Park, the housekeeper Judith Plummer was the wife of the gardener, and she embroidered shadow work on a bedsheet which the Countess treasured. A letter from Dorothy Spence, the Canongate housekeeper, was intercepted in 1645 and printed in a Royalist pamphlet. The male servants and the gardeners mentioned in surviving papers were all paid less than these female housekeepers. Food was bought in Edinburgh by the butler James Simpson. A servant Adam Young had a room in Edinburgh but also witnessed contracts in London. In the 1630s and 1640s it became fashionable to own free-standing trompe d'oeil portraits of servants, family members, and children, now called "dummy boards". Lady Home had some of these made and painted for her in London. These included a shepherdess, a chamber maid, a man playing a viol, and a drawing chamber at the Canongate near her daughter Lady Doune's nursery overlooking the garden was inhabited by three "standing picktours" representing her two grandchildren and their attendant, the dwarf Meg Candie. Nicholas Stone In 1638 she discussed the design of a tomb in white and black marble for her family to be built at Dunglass with Nicolas Stone in person at his workshop in Long Acre, which was not executed.... my will is to have the tombe made with our pictures to the waist in white marble and three through stones to be laid upon us, I, my lord, my dear son Home and my selfe, & I would be laid betwixt them, & so my picture sett, Mr Stone the stone cutter that dwells in Long Acre showed me a tombe he had made for a knight & his wife in that maner ... Dunglass