[23] For those readers who have a failing for genealogic quests, I give a _résumé_ of the Scott family history and succession of heirs to Abbotsford. The earlier items are from Scott’s black-letter Bible. Walter Scott, Senior, m. 1758 = Anne Rutherford. | +------------+ | Walter Scott, Bart., b. 1771; d. 1832; m. 1797 = Margaret Charlotte one of twelve children, | Carpenter, of French of whom five | blood and birth. reached maturity. | | +-----------------+---------+--------+-------------+ | | | | Charlotte Sophia, Walter, Br. Army, Anne, bapt. Charles, bapt. 1799; d. bapt. 1801; m. 1803; d. bapt. 1805; d. 1837; m. 1820 1825, Miss Jobson; unmarried unmarried 1841. = J. G. Lockhart. d. s. p. 1847. 1833. | +----+----------------+---------------------+ | | | John Hugh, Walter Scott, Charlotte, b. 1828; d. 1858 b. 1821; d. b. 1826; d. m. 1847, J. R. Hope, 1831. unmarried later Hope Scott. 1853. | | +--------------------------------+ | Mary Monica, b. 1852; now Mrs. Maxwell Scott, of Abbotsford. [24] Chapter IV. _Queen Anne and the Georges._ [25] Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_, chapter viii., pp. 126-27, vol. iii., Paris edition. [26] Henry Mackenzie, b. 1745; d. 1831. _Man of Feeling_, 1771; _The Lounger_, 1785. [27] Rev. Sydney Smith, b. 1771; d. 1845. _Memoir_ by Lady Holland. [28] Francis Horner, b. 1778; d. 1817. _Memoirs and Correspondence_, 1843. [29] Henry Brougham (Lord Brougham and Vaux), b. 1778; d. 1868. _Collected Speeches_, 1838. _Historic Sketches, etc._, 1839-43. Autobiography (edited by a brother), published in 1871. [30] _Albert Lunel; or The Château of Languedoc._ Lowndes (Bohn) says--“3 vols. post 8vo, 1844. This novel was suppressed on the eve of publication, and it is said not above five copies of the original edition are extant.” The _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ speaks of an issue in 1872. [31] _Life and Correspondence of Lord Jeffrey_, by Lord Cockburn, p. 283, vol. i., Harper’s edition. [32] A grandniece of the great marplot John Wilkes of George III.’s time, and a near connection (if I am not mistaken) of Captain Wilkes of the South Sea Expedition and of the Mason and Slidell seizure. [33] Cited from recollection; but very close to his own utterance, in a letter to a friend.