117 TAPESTRY AT HADDON HALL. 
He sent for a number of skilful Tapestry workers from Flanders and 
settled them at Mortlake, a few miles from London, and placed them 
under the direction of Sir Francis Crane, Chancellor of the Order of 
the Garter. Sir Francisdied in June, 1636, and, with the execution 
of Charles I, the manufactory lingered on miserably ; and it appears, 
from an inquiry ordered by the Parliamentarian party, that, at that 
time it comprised one hall, 80 feet x 20 feet, with twelve looms, and 
another half that size with six looms, and a painting or limning 
room. It survived that awful tempest, and after the restoration in 
1661 Sir Sacvile Crowe called the attention of Charles II to the state 
of the manufactory started by his grandfather and nourished by his 
father, and offered to undertake its restoration, and again it flourished. 
It is improbable that it survived the Revolution, 1688, as William of 
Orange seems to have employed Flemings and Flemish work. 
At the dispersal of the Royal goods by order of Cromwell, a suite 
of hangings, representing the ‘Five Senses,” executed at Mortlake, 
was in the palace of Oatlands, which was sold in 1649 (the year of the 
execution of King Charles I) for £270. 
“The Cardinal Mazarin had a set of the “ Five Senses” in wool 
and silk, with grotesques on a blue background, each piece having in 
the centre a blue medallion representing one of the said ‘‘Senses” sur- 
rounded by a golden-coloured border containing terminals, medallions, 
cartouches and shells, and at the top, in the midst of this border, a 
shield with the arms of England—this was Mortlake work.” 
Mention is made in the Belvoir MS. of six pieces of Tapestry 
having been bought in 1662. May these not be the Oatland’s ‘‘ Five 
Senses”? Note the blue heart in the centre medallion at top. This 
was the mark of the Mortlake factory in the Cromwellian era. 
That the pieces were woven before 1636 is proved by the fact that 
the monogram of Sir Francis Crane is upon them. (See figure 1.) 
During the repairs it was found that the blue heart was sewn in, 
