Traditions of Edinburgh . in the best order, beingoccupied by families of respectable character. This house was built in the early part of the reign of CharlesI. (about 1628) by Mary, Countess of Home, then a ladyships initials, M. H., appear, in cipher fashion, under-neath her coronet upon various parts of the exterior; and overone of the principal windows towards the street there is alozenge shield, containing the two lions rampant which form thecoat armorial of the Home family. Lady Home was an Englishlady, being the daughter of Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley. She MORAY HOUSE. 327 see
Traditions of Edinburgh . in the best order, beingoccupied by families of respectable character. This house was built in the early part of the reign of CharlesI. (about 1628) by Mary, Countess of Home, then a ladyships initials, M. H., appear, in cipher fashion, under-neath her coronet upon various parts of the exterior; and overone of the principal windows towards the street there is alozenge shield, containing the two lions rampant which form thecoat armorial of the Home family. Lady Home was an Englishlady, being the daughter of Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley. She MORAY HOUSE. 327 seems to have been unusually wealthy for the dowager of aScottish earl, for, in 1644, the English parliament repaid seventythousand pounds which she had lent to the Scottish Covenantinggovernment; and she is found in the same year lending seventhousand to aid in paying the detachment of troops which thatgovernment had sent to Ireland. She was also a sufferer, how-ever, by the civil war, in as far as Dunglass House, which was. Moray House. blown up in 1640, by accident, when in the hands of theCovenanters, belonged to her in liferent. To her affluentcircumstances, and the taste which she probably brought withher from her native country, may be ascribed the superior styleof this mansion, which not only displays in the outside manytraces of the elegant architecture which prevailed in England inthe reign of James I., but contains two state apartments,decorated in the most elaborate manner, both in the wallsand ceilings, with the favourite stucco-work of that reign. Onthe death of Lady Home, the house passed (her ladyship having 328 TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. no surviving male issue) to her daughters and co-heiresses,Margaret, Countess of Moray, and Anne, Countess (afterwardsDuchess) of Lauderdale, between whom the entire propertyof their father, the first Earl of Home, appears to have beendivided, his title going into another line. By an arrangementbetween the two sisters, the house bec
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