 This seems to have been a salt, described in 1620 with other items of the queen's tableware scheduled for sale as; " a salt of gold in pieces, having a clock within crystal, the foot of same being gold triangle wise, the cover thereof being a castle, and out of the same castle a green tree, the flowers being diamonds and rubies in roses, the same clock salt and crystal garnished with gold, diamonds, and rubies, wanting a dial in the same clock".His nephew William Drummond of Hawthornden bequeathed a manuscript collection of seventy-two sonnets, entitled "The Tarantula of Love", and a translation (1587) from the Italian of the "Triumphs of Petrarke" to the library of the University of Edinburgh.Two other volumes of his manuscript notes, scrolls of poems, etc.