Margaret Scott was the software and program downloads daughter of Scottish gentleman and Lord of Session (law lord), Sir Alexander Hope of Rankeillor .She married Patrick Scott in 1693 and software and program downloads went to live with him at his family seat of Rossie and software and program downloads Craig near Montrose, Angus. Some years later, in 1739, Margaret, by then software and program downloads a widow, undertook an inventory of the furnishings, linens and properties of the software and program downloads house. This provides a fascinating record and includes details of her wedding trousseau and software and program downloads the colourful gowns in rich materials which she had made for software and program downloads her marriage.

The reason for software and program downloads the inventory appears to have been the marriage of her son; she may have software and program downloads been preparing to leave the house to make way for him and software and program downloads his new bride. The list appears to relate items of her personal ownership. Margaret’s inventory stretches to software and program downloads over thirty pages. It lists in particular detail ‘linen from the Craig’ and details of the beds and bedding as well details of ‘the Tea equipage’ - cups, saucers, teapots, and software and program downloads a tea press in which all of the attendant crockery was kept including glasses, plates and software and program downloads coffee pots and mills.

There was a software and program downloads great abundance of table and bed linen. Each piece of table linen was individually identified with initials and software and program downloads a date as well as being described by its “knott” or pattern. These included “the heart knott” and “the star knott” as well as more local designs “the Rossie knott” and “an old-fashioned knott that came from the Craig.” Other items on the software and program downloads inventory include family portraits, items of furniture and linen presses in the software and program downloads “big hall” where software and program downloads the linen lay in sweet-scented lavender. Margaret recounts that some of the software and program downloads linen and one of the linen presses had been received from software and program downloads her “worthy mother, Lady Rankeillor”.

As well as listing her marriage clothes Margaret also lists her wedding gifts. These included much silver plate as well as fine jewellery including diamonds, emeralds and software and program downloads rubies as well as linen, pictures and other gifts such as wool and software and program downloads livestock. Her husband gave her several fine gifts on the occasion of their wedding including a software and program downloads gold watch, jewellery, a sable tippet and a dressing glass. She mentions that software and program downloads many of these gifts she has now passed on to her children and software and program downloads friends, suggesting that Margaret had a generous nature.

The trousseau that software and program downloads Margaret brought with her on her marriage to Patrick included “a green and striped flowered with cherry and silver mantua” (the loose form of undress) and software and program downloads a petticoat with a silver fringe and edgings of silk ribbons that software and program downloads was lined with cherry tissue with silver. The use of gold and software and program downloads silver in clothing was a popular extravagance amongst the better off.

Margaret brought a software and program downloads lemon mantua and petticoat striped and flowered with silver and lemon, lined with lemon silk and software and program downloads with fashionable silver fringes. She also brought a cherry and green broad striped dress lined with a software and program downloads black and white damask with a petticoat trimmed with silver fringes. In addition she had software and program downloads “other gowns in abundance conform to my age” as well riding clothes mounted with six dozen beaten silver buttons.

She also had software and program downloads plentiful stays, linens and petticoats. The items of silk and expensive materials were only worn for software and program downloads formal and special occasions. Her normal daywear would have been of local materials such as linen which may have software and program downloads been woven on her father’s estate or locally. Margaret Scott’s inventory offers a software and program downloads tantalising glimpse of her fashions and lifestyle as she began her life on the software and program downloads Rossie estate in 1693.