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Alexander Home of North Berwick

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He died on 22 July 1597. His will mentions his farm and livestock at the Mains of North Berwick. He wished to buried beside his wife who had pre-deceased him. A daughter, who name is unknown, had a family with
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and forced himself into the King's presence, in his bedchamber. Home came to the palace to help, but the king said things were fine. On 3 April 1594 he fought in a battle at
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His surname is sometimes spelled "Hume". He was a son of Patrick Home of Polwarth (d. 1578) and Elizabeth Hepburn (d. 1571) daughter of Patrick Hepburn of
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which had been commandeered by English privateers off the coast of Spain and forced to take on board a number of enslaved Africans.
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and received news that the Earl of Bothwell and his companions were in Edinburgh and their horses were nearby at
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His lands at North Berwick included the rabbit warrens and links, fishing, Nungate at the Clarty Burn, the
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In August 1592 the "goodman of North Berwick" and other members of the Home family were said to be in
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called Ekkie Turnbull. Lennox was said to be displeased with Elizabeth's answers and Home's efforts.
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He was Provost of Edinburgh from 1593 to 1597, the leader of the town's council.
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in October 1580 as a gentleman of the bedchamber, and was sent as an envoy to
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an agent of the rebel earls. Around this time, Home and the English diplomat
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Meadow, Kinkeith mill, land at Benestoun, and a granary at the Overmill of
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A letter from the king in October 1598 about a shipping case involving
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His brother was Alexander Home, minister of Logie in Stirlingshire.
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from his younger sister Margaret Home, the last Prioress, in 1562.
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in Edinburgh, and her disapproval of the king's favourite
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Index

Provost of Edinburgh
Waughton
Patrick Hume of Polwarth
North Berwick priory
Thomas Randolph
Nicolas Elphinstone
James VI
Queen Elizabeth
Robert Bowes
Esmé Stewart
Duke of Lennox
border reiver
Tantallon Castle
Anne of Denmark's
Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell
Holyroodhouse
Leith
North Berwick
Dean Mills
James Scott of Balwearie
Robert Bowes
Bruce
George Bruce of Carnock
William Baillie of Lamington
William Baillie
George Bruce of Carnock
Law
Linton
Tyne
Annie I. Cameron

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