Io6 CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWICK HALL. 



11. Full-length portrait of a man; unknown; a troop of 



cavalry in the distance, with a banner or standard, barry 

 argent and gules, a canton of the first. 



N.B. — This picture came from Burlington House. 



12. George Cavendish, gentleman Usher to Cardinal Wolsey; 



head. 



There are four coats-of-arms painted, one in each corner of 

 the panel: — (i) Cavendish, with a crescent or for diflference ; 

 (2) Scudamore ; (3) Brecknock ; (4) Smith, of Podbrook, co. 

 Suffolk. 



13. Thomas Cavendish, who died 1477. He married Catherine 



Scudamore (heiress of the Scudamore family). He was 

 grandfather of George Cavendish and of Sir William 

 Cavendish. Head ; reddish brown beard ; dressed in 

 dark blue, with brown fur. 



On this picture is written: — "Thomas Caundishe, 24 April, 

 I4S3-" 



14. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Higli Treasurer, from 



1572 till his death, 4 Aug., 1598, in his 77th year; 

 wearing the Collar of the Garter, and holding the 

 Treasurer's wand of office. Half length. See No. 138. 

 The original of this portrait is at Burghley. 



15. Sir William Cavendish, Kt., second son and principal heir 



of Thomas Cavendish and Alice Smith, his wife. He 

 married (i) Margaret, daughter of Edmund Eostock ; 



(2) Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Conyngesby; and 



(3) in 1545, Elizabeth Hardwick, and died in 1557. 

 Half length. 



16. Elizabeth Hardwick, daughter of John Hardwick, of 



Hardwick, the celebrated " Bess of Hardwick," Countess 

 of Shrewsbury, who married (i) Alexander Barlow, of 

 Barlow ; (2) Sir William Cavendish ; (3) Sir William St. 

 Loe, of Tormarton, Co. Gloucester; (4) George Talbot, 

 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, whom she survived. She died 

 IT, February, 1607-8, aged 87. Her estate was worth 

 jQGoyOoo a year, and she built five great houses — 

 Worksop, Bolsover, Chatsworth, Hardwick, and Oldcotes, 

 the latter being unfinished at her death. 



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