A companion portrait to that of Sir Walter, painted in 1805. Scott's mother, by Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.S.A., R.A. Anne Scott, by William Nicholson, R.S.A. In fancy dress; a water-colour sketch. 'An honest, downright good Scots lass, in whom I would only wish to correct a spirit of satire.' Anne Scott, by John Graham. In Spanish dress. Sophia Scott (Mrs. Lockhart), by William Nicholson, R.S.A. In Norwegian peasant dress. The Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott, by Miller. Presented by Mr. Maxwell Scott's cricketing friends, 1887. James VI. of Scotland. Painter unknown. Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth. Painter unknown. To her the 'Lay' was chanted: 'In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, She wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb.' Henrietta, Queen of Charles I. Painter unknown. Sir Thomas Hervey, Knight Marshal to Queen Mary. Painter unknown. Nell Gwynne, by Sir Peter Lely. John Dryden, by Sir Peter Lely. William Hogarth, by himself. Oliver Cromwell. Painter unknown. Head of Mary Queen of Scots, by Amyas Cawood (not Camwood, or Canwood, as the guidebooks say). Presented by a Prussian nobleman. This picture represents the head of the Queen after decapitation, and bears the signature of the painter, with the inscription and date, 'Maria Scotiæ Regina, Feb. 9, 1587,' the day after the execution. 'It is known that leave was granted for such a picture, and in the painter's name we may probably recognize a brother of Mary's faithful attendant, Margaret Cawood,' Cawood, or, as now, Carwood, near Biggar, was the seat of this family. Fast Castle. By Thomson of Duddingston. Presented by the artist. Fast Castle, Berwickshire, is the supposed 'Wolf's Crag' of the 'Bride of Lammermoor.' Jedburgh Abbey. A water-colour drawing by Bennet. Presented by the artist. Bust of Shakespeare. Somewhat youthful-looking. Presented by George Bullock, along with the finely-carved oak cabinet on which it stands (see Lockhart, vol. v., p. 167). ARMOURY. 'Stepping westwards,' we enter the Armoury, a long, narrow apartment, running right across the house, with emblazoned windows at either end (heads of the Scottish Kings), and forming a sort of ante-room to the drawing-room on one side and the dining-room on the other. It consists of two parts, that to the south being 10 feet in length, the other 25 feet. Both portions communicate by a Gothic archway, with carved oaken wicket. Scarcely a nation on earth, savage or civilized, but has contributed something in the shape of a warlike weapon to the stores of the Abbotsford armoury. Of its many remarkable and valuable objects--the mere enumeration of which would, of themselves, form a goodly catalogue--the following may be specially noted: Sword of Montrose.