 The lords, with Hume, returned to Scotland in 1585, and between that date and 1588, when Angus died.In later life Hume devoted himself to literature on his property of Gowkscroft, a farming hamlet 2 miles to the north of Abbey St. Bathans, in the Lammermuir Hills, Berwickshire, which he renamed Godscroft, and styled himself Theagrius when he figured as a Latin poet.Hume supported his patron Angus's policy in a series of letters (preserved in the "History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus") on the doctrine of obedience to princes.