treated by an Edinburgh physician, David Arnot. James Home died in London in February 1633, attended by the court physician Théodore de Mayerne, and Grace died soon afterwards at Apethorpe. The two countesses continued a bitter lawsuit over their children's properties. Westmorland was her daughter's executrix. She complained that the Countess of Home had the advantage in Scottish courts from her continual residence and acquaintance in Edinburgh. Charles I wrote to the Court of Session in Westmorland's favour on 5 May 1634. The earldom passed to a distant cousin James Home, 3rd Earl of Home (1615–1666). Mary wrote to Sir David Home of Wedderburn from Aldersgate after her son's death about the future of the Home family, name, and "ancient raice", asking him to "express your love both to the living and to the dead". Lady Moray and Lady Lauderdale A Scottish author Patrick Hannay (fl. 1616–1630) dedicated A happy husband or, Directions for a Maide to choose her Mate, As also, a Wives behaviour towards her Husband after Marriage (Edinburgh, 1618/1619?) to Mary's eldest daughter Margaret Home (d. 1683), who married James Stewart, 4th Earl of Moray in 1628. Hannay's title refers to Sir Thomas Overbury. In 1632 Mary's younger daughter Lady Anne Home married John Maitland later Duke of Lauderdale. Anne inherited her mother's properties and furnishings in London. Lady Home's will Mary made a will in 1638 reflecting her English and Scottish properties and identity. She hoped her granddaughters would inherit her furnishings and collection, dividing house contents in London and Scotland between them, according to the inventories of each house. She was aware that this was problematic, writing "And I am not ignorant that my houses both in Edinborough as Canongate and in Aldersgate Street being inheritance I cannot dispose so of them by this my late will neither by the laws of England nor Scotland". Amongst personal bequests to her family and servants, she left a purse of gold coins to her nephew, Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, the son of her sister Anne (Dudley) Sutton. The will appointed her granddaughter Lady Mary Stewart (d. 1668) as executor, but she was still a minor when the countess died in London in March 1644. Her body was shipped to Scotland and buried at Dunglass. Her daughters and their husbands instead acted as executors. The will and the Commonwealth In 1648 Lauderdale's share of her possessions