Tag: Bess of Hardwick
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Two famous Hardwick couplets
Everyone who grew up near Hardwick Hall, like I did, knows the saying Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, a contemporary of Bess It’s a playful little rhyme about Bess of Hardwickâs famous house and its numerous large windows. The windows were a status symbol in Elizabethan England. It’s…
Dean Sas 