Chapter I

suspended the Shield borne by that Sir WALTER SCOTT, of Abbotsford, whose name will ever be a household word with every lover of what is chivalrous and knightly. Here I place the Seal, No. 449, of an earlier Sir WALTER SCOTT, of Branxholm and Kirkurd--a Knight of another branch of the same distinguished House, who differenced the Shield of Scott so as to bear--_Or, on a bend azure a mullet and two crescents gold_.

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