there’ (Hist. of Scotland, bk. xx.) After the capture of his castle he had scarcely any choice but to take refuge in the castle of Edinburgh.
Thenceforth he was one of the most resolute supporters of the queen, acting virtually as Kirkcaldy's lieutenant during the siege of Edinburgh Castle. Along with Huntly, Home commanded a detachment sent by Kirkcaldy from the castle, who were defeated by the besiegers at the Borough Muir (Herries, Memoirs, p. 135). To revenge the defeat Home and Lord Claud Hamilton, with two hundred musketeers and one hundred horse, set out for Dalkeith against Morton, but were defeated and chased as far as Craigmillar, where, receiving reinforcements, they in turn routed the enemy (ib. p. 136). Not long afterwards Home was hurt in a skirmish and taken prisoner (ib. p. 137), but at the end of July 1571 he was exchanged for the laird of Drumlanrig. On 6 March 1572 he complained to Queen Elizabeth that Home Castle was kept from him, and begged that it might be restored to his wife (Cal. State Papers, Scott. Ser. i. 340). He continued resolute in his support of Kirkcaldy of Grange to the last, and on the capture of Edinburgh Castle was taken prisoner. Though convicted of treason he was not executed, but was confined in the castle. Sir James Melville states that he died shortly after being warded in the castle of Edinburgh (Memoirs, p. 256). According to the ‘History of James the Sext’ he was sent, owing to illness, to his own lodgings, and died in them on 3 Sept. 1573 (p. 145). But this is untrue. Home was a prisoner in Edinburgh Castle on 24 July 1574, when Lord Lindsay and Lord Hay of Yester obliged themselves, under a penalty of 20,000l., that he should remain there until relieved, and while there should not attempt anything against the king, &c. (Reg. P. C. Scotl. ii. 409). From the retour of his son it appears that he died 11 Aug. 1575 (Douglas, Peerage, ed. Wood, i. 736). He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Sir Walter Ker of Cessford, Roxburghshire, by whom he had a daughter, Margaret, married to the fifth earl marischal; secondly, Agnes, daughter of Patrick, lord Gray, and widow of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, by whom he had a son, Alexander, sixth baron and first earl Home [q. v.], and a daughter, Isabel, married to Sir James Home of Eccles. Agnes, lady Home, subsequently remarried Thomas Lyon [q. v.] of Auldbar, the master of Glammis.
[Histories of Knox, Leslie, Calderwood, and Keith; Lord Herries's Memoirs of Queen Mary (Abbotsford Club); Hist. James the Sext (Bannatyne Club); Sir James Melville's Memoirs (Bannatyne Club); Illustrations of the Reign of Mary (Bannatyne Club); Cal. State Papers, Scott. Ser.; Cal. State Papers, For. Ser., Reign of Elizabeth; Reg. P. C. Scotl. vols. i–ii.; Douglas's Scottish Peerage (Wood), i. 735–6.]
HOME or HUME, ALEXANDER, sixth Lord Home and first Earl of Home (1566?–1619), born about 1566, was son of Alexander, fifth lord Home [q. v.] by his second wife. On the death of his father in 1575 he was placed under the guardianship of Andrew, commendator of Jedburgh. The custody of the castle of Home had been committed by the regent Morton to the widow of the fifth baron, and on 30 Nov. 1578 she and her husband complained that the commendator refused to deliver it up. He was ordered to do so, but in December 1579 it was arranged that the castle should be retained by Lord Home and the commendator, his tutor, in his name (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iii. 250). In 1581 Alexander Hume of Manderston and others were ordered to restore to Home certain lands under a penalty of 500l. (ib. pp. 422–3). In July of the following year Home, as warden of the east marches, received a special commission to hold justiciary courts in his district (ib. p. 501). He was one of those who signed the band which resulted in the raid of Ruthven on 23 Aug. following. In a memorandum on the ‘Present State of the Nobility of Scotland,’ 1583, Home is described as ‘a young man of xvii years of age, of a great living and many friends, although they all follow him not—Himself of no very good government or hope’ (Bannatyne Miscellany, i. 68). In November 1583 a violent brawl occurred betwixt him and Francis Stewart Hepburn, fifth earl of Bothwell [q. v.], in the streets of Edinburgh (Calderwood, iii. 759). Both were ordered into ward, and Home was not released till 20 Jan. 1584–5 (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iii. 719). For a time he was a prisoner in Tantallon Castle, but in December was transferred to the castle of Edinburgh by way of the Nether Bow, so that he might see exposed there the head of one of his dependents, David Hume, captain of Stirling Castle (Calderwood, iv. 245).
Notwithstanding his hereditary jealousy of Bothwell, and his previous violent quarrel with him, Home, soon after obtaining his liberty, co-operated with him in the scheme for the restoration of the banished lords and the overthrow of Arran. Along with Bothwell, he fortified the castle of Kelso, which became the rendezvous of the insurgents. He was one of those received into favour by the king after Arran's fall. In the complaint
