CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWiCK HALL. 1 55 



mullets sable, hut is wrongly painted, as here stated); under the 

 shield are the initials " E. S. " and above, on a helmet and 

 wreath (the wreath incorrectly painted azure and gules, instead 

 of argent and azure), the crest, a stag passant ppr., collared azure, 

 the collar being charged with three roses argent. Above this 

 shield are two smaller shields, one on either side — that to the 

 dexter, Talbot impaling Hardwick, with Earl's coronet above it ; 

 and that to the sinister Lennox azure, three fleurs de lis or 

 within a bordure gules charged with ten buckles or, impaling 

 Cavendtsh, with the crescent or for difference, and Earl's coronet 

 above it. 



There are no arms in the Dressing Room to this room or in 

 the small Bedroom near the Chapel. 



In the staircase up the North Tower is a shield painted on 

 panel, Cavendish impaling Howard. 



Going on to the roof, the arms of Hardwiek on a lozenge in 

 plaster are over the fireplace in the room in the north-east tower. 



In the room in the south-west tower, over the fireplace, in 

 plaster, is the Cavendish crest, a snake nowed. 



It may seem hardly appropriate to describe the Tapestry 

 n(jw, but seeing that an interesting discovery was made during 

 the past year (1902) in connection with the arms upon some 

 of it, it may be well to record that before concluding this 

 account. 



On the tapestry which covers the walls of the gallery, and is 

 also in the drawing-room, there are at intervals in the border, 

 shields, repealed, bearing the arms of Hardwick, and its quar- 

 tering, viz. : (Quarterly 1 and 4, Hai-diviek, argent a saltire 

 engrailed azure, on a chief of the second three roses of the first; 

 2 and 3, argent a fesse, and in chief three mullets sable, 

 with the crest above, on a wreath argent and azure, a stag 

 passant ppr., collared azure, the collar charged with three roses 

 argent. It was therefore supposed that this tapestry had been 

 specially made for Lady Shrewsbury, till the discovery was 

 made that these shields were not part of the tapestry, but simply 

 pieces of flannel on which the above arms were painted, the 

 pieces having been cut to the exact size of the shields already in 



