ALICE HARDWICK, next daughter, married Francis Hercy, according to some pedigrees. No issue recorded.
There are therefore descendants certainly known of only two of the children of John Hardwick. Possibly some of your correspondents can supply those of Wingfield and Hercy.
The crest and arms of the Hardwicks may be found in Edmondson. They only quartered Pynchbeke. I am not aware of any motto.
Miss Costello, and other biographers of the Countess of Shrewsbury, have quite overlooked all the descendants of her sisters. Possibly, should these lines meet the eye of the Duke of Devonshire, who possesses the estates and papers of the Hardwicks, it may lead to more particulars concerning the family being made public.
ERMINE.
Torquay.
Quotations in Bishop Andrewes (Vol. ii., p. 245.).—
"Minutuli et patellares Dei."
is from Plautus: