CHAPTER V.

Hardwicke Hall -- the Author’s Visit to it on the present Duke’s coming of Age -- Scenes which presented themselves -- a Second Visit with a Party of Friends -- a Third Visit after the lapse of Twenty Years -- Present Aspect of the Place -- Building Mania of Bess of Hardwicke -- Remains of the Old Hall of Hardwicke -- Gog and Magog -- Arabella Stewart, and Queen of Scots imprisoned there -- Chapel -- Old Tapestry -- Family Gallery -- Good Taste by which the House is kept in its Original State -- Statue of the Queen of Scots -- Mrs. Jameson’s Account of Hardwicke -- the Duke there -- his Apartments -- Contrast of different Ages presented by such Houses as Hardwicke, Haddon, and Chatsworth 257