So the Scott connection there is later than the death of Monmouth
Keep the heid" Jim, that's what I said!
I think the earlier suggestion that it was the Duke of Monmouth could be on the money, after his execution in 1685 some claim that he was exhumed and his head stitched back on in order for a portrait to be done, was this an explanation given out at the time to cover it all up, as he was a nephew of James II