144 CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWICK HALL. 



And, it is added, " a great number of other pictures," etc., 



in Collins's Noble Families, p. 19. 



Note. — The pictures against which an asterisk is placed are 

 still at Hardwick. 



As the heraldry in the various rooms at Hardwick has never 

 yet been fully described, it may be well to give an account of 

 it here. 



IN THE HALL. 



Over the fireplace, in plaster, are the arms of Hardwick 

 on a lozenge, viz., argent, a saltire engrailed azure, on a chief of 

 the second three roses of the first. Above the lozenge is a 

 Countess's coronet, and the supporters of the lozenge are two 

 stags proper collared azure, the collars charged with three roses 

 argent. 



At the east end of the Hall, under the statue of Mary, 

 Queen of Scots, by Westmacott (which stands beneath the 

 portrait of Henry VHL, No. 220) are her arms. To the dexter: 

 in chief, the arms of the Dauphin of France, quarterly i and 

 4 France modern, 2 and 3 a dolphin hauriant embowed, for 

 her first husband, Francis H. of France; and in base the royal 

 arms of Scotland for her second husband, and over all a demi- 

 escutcheon of pretence {i.e., the dexter side of the escutcheon 

 only) with France modern in chief and England in base ; the 

 whole impaling her arms quarterly quartered, i and 4, Scot- 

 land, 2 and 3 quarterly; i. and iv. France modern; ii. and iii. 

 England. Underneath the shield is this inscription :— 

 "MARIA SCOTORUM REGINA 

 Nata 1542 

 A suis in exilium acta 1568 ab hospita neci data 1587." 



On*^the worked hangings of the screen on the south side of 

 the Hall, near the front door, on the outer side, on the left, is 

 a shield with the arms and quarterings of Lord Shrewsbury 

 surmounted by an Earl's coronet. The nine qnarterings (five 

 in the upper row and four in the lower) are : — 



7. Shrewsbury (viz., the ancient arms of Montgomery, Earl 

 of Shrewsbury) ; azure, a lion rampant within a bordure or. 



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