150 CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWICK HALL. 



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

 gules. 



6. Montchensi, or, 3 inescutcheons barry of 6 gules and vair, 

 2 and 1. 



7. Strange, argent, 2 lions passant gules. It should be : 

 gules 2 lions passant argent. 



8. Nevill, gules, a saltire argent. There shuuld be a martlet 

 sable for difference. 



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



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

 sable. 



11. Audley, or, a fret gules. 



12. Clare, or, 3 chevrons gules. 



Above this are two smaller shields, side by side, that to the 

 dexter, Talbot impaling Harchvick, with Earl's coronet above, 

 for George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Hardwick, 

 his second wife ; and that to the sinister, Talbot impaling 

 Cavendish, with crescent for difference, and Earl's coronet 

 above, for Gilbert, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Marv' Caven- 

 dish, his wife. 



THE RED ROOM, 

 the 6th Dukes bedroom, and called the Duke's Room in his 

 Handbook. There are no arms over the fireplace, but on some 

 applique work on the wall there are monograms in the four 

 corners, viz.: (1) of Henry Pierrepoint (H.P.), (2) Elizabeth 

 Shrewsbury (viz., E.S.E. and her coronet above), and again (3) 

 E.S. over a stag passant, collared azure, and (4) E.C. under a 

 Countess's c(jronet, for Elizabeth Cavendish, whilst in the centre 

 is a shield bearing the arms of Hardwick, with th-i initials 

 E. and S. on either side, and the Countess's coronet abtne. 



IN THE RED DRESSING ROOM 

 (or 6th Duke's Dressing Room), no arms, but on the worked 

 hangings on the walls many initials and monograms, and this 

 coat of arms: Shrnvsbiiry, azure, a lion rampant, within a 

 bordure or, impaling Hardwick, argent a saltire engrailed azure, 

 and on a chief of the second three roses of the first, with Earl's 

 coronet above, and underneath the shield is the monogram 

 E.C.S. and the date 1579. 



