152 CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWICK HALL. 



On the Canopy of State at the north end of the Presence 

 Chamber are the following twelve sets of initials and arms worked 

 on the vallance going round it, four on each side and four 

 in front; beginning on the left: — (i) G. T. (Gilbert Talbot); 

 (2) M. T. (Mary Talbot); (3) the arms of Cavendish; (4) G. C. 

 (Grace Cavendish); in front: — (5) W. C. (William Cavendish); 

 (6) the arms of Cavendish impaling Hardwick; (7) a worked 

 figure ; (8) C. L. (Charles Lennox) ; and on the East side : — 

 (9) h!'f. (Henry and Frances Pierrepont) ; (10) the arms of 

 Cavendish; (11) H. C. (Henry Cavendish); (12) q.'m. (Gilbert 

 and Mary Talbot). Underneath the canopy in the middle are 

 the initials E. S. 



There are twenty paintings on the wood panelling of the bow 



(ten on each side). 



LIBRARY. 



Over the chimney-piece, figures in the middle, and on the 



dexter side, Queen Elizabeth's arms, with supporters and crown, 



and on the sinister side, the initials E. R. in red surmounted 



by the crown. 



GREEN ROOM. 



No arms. Figure over chimney-piece with " CHARITAS " 

 under it. 



The quilt of the bed in this room, made of patchwork uf all 

 the materials covering the furniture in the 6lh Duke's various 

 houses, was given to him by his housekeepers, who had made 

 it for him, on the 21st May, 1849. 



MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS', ROOM. 

 Over the chimneypiece, in i)laster, on a lozenge, the arms ot 

 Hardwick, with stags as supporters and Countess's coronet above, 

 and above it on either side, just over the supporters, are two 

 shields; that to the dexter Harckvick inn)aling Leeke, argent on a 

 saltire engrailed sable, nine annulets or; the arms of Lady Shrews, 

 bury's father and mother, John Hardwick and his wife, Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of John Leake, of Hasland, of a younger branch 

 of the Leakes of Sutton Scarsdale ; and the shield on the 

 sinister side has the arms of Cavendish, with crescent for 



