Middle of the sixteenth century. Believed to have come from Bosworth Field, and, as Scott suggests, to have belonged to Sir John Cheney, the biggest man of both armies on that memorable day. An enormous two-handed sword, nearly the length of a man, is held by this figure (see also the celebrated Calendar-sword, close by, and tilting-lance, about 12 feet long). [Illustration: THE ENTRANCE HALL, ABBOTSFORD] 'And stranger lips, unmoved and cold, The legends of thy mansion told-- Thy lauded, glittering brand and spear, And costly gift from prince and peer, And broad claymore, with silver dight And hunting-horn of Border knight, What were such gauds to me? More dear had been one single word From those whose veins thy blood had stirred.' Relics from Waterloo. Pistols, cuirasses, swords, sabres, etc. (see Lockhart, vol. v.). Relics from Culloden. Highland back-swords. Relics from Roxburgh Castle. Two cannonballs. Archbishop Sharp's grate. See letter to Terry, January 9, 1823. The fireplace is modelled from the Abbot's Stall at Melrose. Head of elk. Found in Abbotsrule Moss, twelve miles from Abbotsford. Ralph Erskine's pulpit. The two semicircular presses between the windows, forming a sort of wine-cellar, were made from the wood of this pulpit, with the precentor's desk and King's seat of Dunfermline Abbey Church. Keys of the old Tolbooth of Edinburgh. Presented by the magistrates of Edinburgh, 1816. Lock and key of Selkirk Gaol. A Jeddart axe. Time of James V. Hermitage touting-horn. 'How great he was when he was made master o' _that_! Sir Walter carried it home all the way from Liddesdale to Jedburgh, slung about his neck like Johnny Gilpin's bottle, and muckle and sair we routed on't, and hotched and blew wi' micht and main' (Shortreed's 'Memoranda'). Burgess hat of Stow. Model of the Scottish branks. For scolding wives. Model of skull of Robert the Bruce. On the mantelpiece. Model of skull of Shaw, the Waterloo Lifeguards-man. On the mantelpiece (see Lockhart, vol. v., p. 71). Marie Antoinette's clock. On the mantelpiece. Bronze pot from Riddell, Roxburghshire. 'The mistletoe chest where Ginevra lay.' Sent from Italy to Scott as the identical chest in which the beautiful young bride hid herself on her marriage-day, in a frolicsome wish to baffle the search of her newly-wedded lord, and out of which chest she never came, until the lapse of many years had converted her beautiful frame into a mouldering skeleton. A spring-lock had shut her in, and all search for her proved vain. Sir Walter was led to doubt the authenticity of the relic from the fact that Italy has a box with similar claims in several of her principal cities. Besides, the chest at Abbotsford has not the spring lock. Sir Walter's clothes.