April 9. 1853.]' 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the family went to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, 

 and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Zacliary Clifton was 

 at the Universities of Utrechtjind Leyden (at 

 which latter university " hee comenct M'- of Arts, 

 March 5, 1654 "), andin 1659 was ordained minister 

 of the gospel at Wisborough Green In Sussex. 

 Many other particulars are given. The Bible is 

 in the library of Sir Robert Taylor's Institution, 

 Oxford, and is in excellent preservation, having 

 been recently carefully repaired, J. M. 



Oxford. 



The Three per Cent. Consols. — In Jerdan's Avio- 

 hiography, vol. iii., published in 1852, we read this 

 anecdote : 



" At a City dinner, so political that the three Con- 

 suls of France were drunk, the toast-master, quite un- 

 acquainted with Bonaparte, Cambaceres, and Lebrun, 

 hallooed out from behind the chair, ' Gentlemen, fill 

 bumpers ! The chairman gives the Three per Cent. 

 Consols ! ' " 



In Merrie England in the Olden Time, vol. ii. 

 p. 70. (published ten years before), will be found 

 the following note : 



" This eminent professor (toast-master Toole), whose 

 sobriquet is ' Lungs,' having to shout the health of the 

 • three present Consuls,' at my Lord Mayor's feast, 

 proclaimed the health of the ' Three per Cent. Con- 

 sols r " 



The latter version is the correct one. It was the 

 three foreign Consuls who were present among 

 this annual gathering of grandees that was given ; 

 not Bonaparte, Cambaceres, and Lebrun. The 

 after-dinner organ of Toole might easily, on hear- 

 ing the toast, mistake "present" for "per cent.," 

 and " Consuls " (in the City, too) for " Consols." 



A SUBSCSIBEB. 



caucrtf^. 



WOLVES NURSING CHILDREN. 



At the meeting of the Cambrian Archagological 

 Society, Lord Cawdor in the chair, I read a letter 

 on this subject from the resident at Lucknow, 

 Colonel Sleeman, to whom India is indebted for 

 the suppression of Thuggee, and other widely ex- 

 tended benefits. Though backed by such good 

 authority, the letter in question was received with 

 considerable incredulity, although Colonel Slee- 

 man represents that he has with him one of these 

 wolf-nurtured youths. 



Since reading the letter, I have received from 

 the Colonel's brother a more full account, printed 

 in India, and containing additional cases, which I 

 should have no objection to print in the pages of 

 "N. & Q." In the meantime, further information 

 from Indian experience, where mothers so often 

 expose their children, would be thankfully re- 

 ceived. 



I appended my letter, for want of a better 

 opportunity, and at the request of several mem- 

 bers, to a paper on the doctrine of the Myth, read 

 at the time ; observing, that if the account is , 

 credible, perhaps Niebuhr may have been pre- 

 cipitate in treating the nurture of the founders of 

 Rome as fabulous, and consigning to the Myth 

 facts of infrequent occurrence. There is both 

 danger and the want of philosophy iu rejecting 

 the marvellous, merely as such. 



Nor is the invention of Lupa, for the name of 

 the mother of the Roman twins, by any means 

 satisfactory. May not the mysteries of Lycan- 

 thropy have had their origin in such a not in- 

 frequent fact, if Col. Sleeman may be trusted, as 

 the rearing of infants by wolves ? 



Gilbert N. Smith. 



The Rectory, Tregwynfrid, Tenby, S. W. 



"the LUNEBTJRG table. QUEEN ELIZABETHS 



LOVE OF PEAEM. 



In the Travels of Hentzner, who resided some 

 time in England in the reign of Elizabeth, as tutor 

 to a young German nobleman, there is given (as 

 most of your readers will doubtless remember) a 

 very interesting account of the " Maiden Queen," 

 and the court which she then maintained at " the 

 royal palace of Greenwich." After noticing the 

 appearance of the presence-chamber, — " the floor, 

 after the English fashion, strewed with hay," — the 

 writer gives a descriptive portrait of her Majesty. 

 He states, — 



" Next came the Queen, in her sixty-fifth year, as we 

 were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but 

 wrinkled ; her eyes small, but black and pleasant ; her 

 nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth 

 black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their 

 too great use of sugar). She had In her ears two 

 pearls, with very rich drops.* She wore false hair, and 

 that red." 



* With respect to the rich pearl earrings above men- 

 tioned, it may not be uninteresting to remark, that 

 Elizabeth seems to have been particularly fond of 

 pearls, and to have possessed the same taste for them 

 from youth to even a later period than " her sixty-fifth 

 year." The now faded wax-work effigy preserved in 

 Westminster Abbey (and which lay on her coffin, ar- 

 rayed in royal robes, at her funeral, and caused, as 

 Stowe states, " such a general sighing, groaning, and 

 weeping, as the like hath not being seen or known in 

 the memory of man " ) exhibits large round Roman 

 pearls in the stomacher ; a carcanet of large round 

 pearls, &c. about her throat ; her neck ornamented 

 with long strings of pearls ; her high-heeled shoe-bows 

 having in the centre large pearl medallions. Her ear- 

 rings are circular pearl and ruby medallions, with large 

 pear-shaped pearl pendants. This, of course, represents 

 her as she dressed towards the close of iier life. In the 

 ToUemache collection at Ham House is a miniature of 



