148 CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWICK HAI.L. 



the upper one has the arms of Talbot impaling Cavendish, 

 with crescent or for difference, and Earl's coronet also ; 

 this represents Lady Shrewsbury's youngest daughter Mary's 

 marriage to her step-son, Gilbert, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury. The 

 middle shield has the arms of Cavctidish with crescent, as before, 

 impaling Talbot, for her eldest son, Henry, who married Lady 

 Grace Talbot ; and the lower one has Cavendish, as before, 

 impaling argent, a fesse gules (it should be a fesse sable, but 

 has been wrongly coloured gules at some later date) for Keighlev, 

 her second son, William, afterwards ist Earl of Devonshire, 

 having married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Henry 

 Kighley, or Keighley. 



The three corresponding shields on the sinister side are as 

 follows : the upper one has the arms of Charles, Earl of Lennox, 

 azure three fleurs de lis or within a bordure gules, charged with 

 eleven buckles of the second (so blazoned here), and with the 

 bordure extending all round (which is incorrect, in an impaled 

 coat), impaling Cavendish, with crescent for difference as 

 before, with an Earl's coronet above, to shew the marriage of 

 Lady Shrewsbury's second daughter, Elizabeth, with Charles, 

 Earl of Lennox, younger brother of Lord Darnley, the only child 

 of which marriage was Lady Arabella Stuart. 



The middle shield has the arms of Cavendish, with crescent, 

 as before, impaling Ogle, argent, a fesse gules (it should be 

 argent, a fesse between three crescents gules, but the crescents 

 have been painted over at some later time). This shews the 

 marriage of her youngest son Charles with Catherine Ogle, 

 daughter and coheiress of Cuthbert, Lord Ogle, and Baroness 

 Ogle in her own right. 



The lower shield has evidently had the arms of Picrrepont 

 impaling Cavendish, as before, shewing the marriage of the 

 eldest daughter, Frances, with Sir Henry Pierrepont, of Holme 

 Pierrepont. The Pierrepont arms are : argent, a lion rampant 

 sable, within an orle of cinquefoils gules, but here they have 

 been painted over at some date, leaving the dexter half of 

 the shield plain white. 



