119 TAPESTRY AT HADDON HALL. 
present, but it is a larger piece, 15 feet x 11 feet 6 ins. Centre 
medallion, a lady smelling flowers, in her left hand a vase at which a 
dog is also smelling; left-hand medallion, “‘The Fox dines with the 
Stork ; right-hand medallion, ‘‘The Dog and his Shadow.” 
There is, in the household accounts preserved at Belvoir Castle, 
the following entry :—1663, Disbursed. April 23, for carrying a piece: 
of hanging, one of the “‘ Five Senses,” to my Lord Winchesters, 6d. 
I will now take up the work as I found it. All the pieces were 
nailed to the walls with iron nails, the rust eating into the Tapestry, 
the pieces cut and folded to fit into the places where they were hung, 
borders cut off to make them fit in where they were required. I 
really thought the thing hopeless. I first went round with a pocket 
book, mapped out each piece and took the size, noticed what was 
wanting, then on to another room and did the same, put a note the 
rest of this piece in such and such a room; after many weeks, for I 
could only spare an hour or so ata time, I had the whole on paper, and 
knew where I could find all my parts when the time should come to 
put them together. It came when his Grace paid a visit to Haddon. 
I showed him the figure of “‘ Diana,” and asked him if he would like 
to see the whole. I then had the nails drawn and showed him this 
(plate 1). The top and bottom borders we travelled into other rooms 
to see, but it was not till five years had passed that I was able to com- 
plete the whole, as the top left-hand corner was only then found asa 
patch in another piece. But from this time forward the work went on 
at Haddon; we engaged a needlewoman who has thrown her whole 
heart into the work, and is now a thorough expert at the work. 
Lady Victoria Manners took up the work and wrote a little 
book, “ Descriptive Notes on the Tapestry in Haddon Hall,” and we 
have gone on steadily with the repairs, and hope to live to see the 
completion. 
This (plate 1), I may call the first of the “ Diana” series. The 
set is mentioned in an inventory of the Earl of Rutland’s goods, 
taken at Wallingford House in 1655: 
