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CATALOGUE OF THE TICTURES AT HARDWICK HALL. 1 45 



2. Talbot, gules, a lion rampant within a bnrdure engrailed or. 



3. Talbot anrient, which is bendy of ten pieces argent and 

 gules, but only gules four bends argent shown here. 



4. Valence, barry of ten argent and azure, an orle of martlets 

 gules. 



5. Nevill, gules, a saltire argent, a martlet sable for difference. 



6. Furnival, argent, a bend between six martlets gules. 



7. Audley, or, a fret gules. 



8. Strange, gules, two lions passant argent. 



9. Lovetot, argent, a lion rampant parti per fesse, gules and sable . 

 Helow the shielil in a panel is a figure, " MAG NAN I MI TAS.' 



In the centre of the screen on a larger panel is the figure 0/ 

 " ZENOBIA," and on the right, above a panel with the figure 

 " PRUDENTIA," is the Talbot crest; on a caj) of maintenance, 

 a lion statant, tail extended or. Along the border at the top of 

 the screen, three times repeated, is the monogram (G.G.E.). 



On the back of the same screen, above panels with figures, 

 " CONSTANS," " ARTEMISIA," and " PIETAS," are : on the 

 left, the arms of George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Elizabeth 

 Hardwick, his wife, with Earl's coronet above. 



The arms are : Talbot, quarterly of nine, the same as on 

 the other side of the screen, except that here i and 2 are trans- 

 posed, 1 being Talbot, gules, a lion rampant within a bordure 

 engrailed or ; and 2 Shrewsbury (or Montgomery), azure, a lion 

 rampant within a bordure or. The remaining quarterings are 

 as already given ; the whole impaling the arms of Hardwick. 



On the right, over the figure " Pietas," are the arms of 



Henry Cavendish (Lady Shrewsbury's eldest son) impaling 



those of his wife. Lady Grace Talbot, and over the shield 



the date 1573. The arms are Cavendish, sable, three stags' 



heads caboshed argent, a crescent or for difference* impaling 



Talbot quarterly of nine, as before, but in this case (i) is 



Shrewsbury or Montgomery, and (2) Talbot. Along the border 



at the top, is the before-mentioned monogram, " G.G.E.," three 



times repeated, as on the other side of the screen. 



* The crescent was the difference borne by Sir William Cavendish .is 

 a second son, and his elder brother's descendants were still living at 

 this time. 



