One of the larger embroideries at Hard- wick, worked on canvas in coloured silks and silver-gilt thread (Plate 46), bears in the middle the arms of Talbot impaling Hardwick, surrounded by the Garter. The armorial devices in the corners are as fol- lows : (i) a shield, Talbot impaling Hardwick, within a wreath having the initials E.S., G.S. ; (2) The Hardwick crest, a stag trip- ping, with initials E.S.; (3) the Talbot badge, a Talbot dog, with initials G.S. ; (4) the Cavendish crest (an intertwined serpent) sur- rounded by the motto CAVENDO TVTVS, still borne by the Dukes of Devonshire. The complicated heraldry of this piece is explained by the short biographical reference to Elizabeth of Hardwick (p. 82). This description of Elizabethan embroidery may be closed by a short reference to the Broderers' Company, incorporated by the queen three years after her accession to the throne. The company, however, is men- tioned at an earlier period, and it was pro- bably in existence three ce
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