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"wife to John, Erie of Este Frieseland, called the Mar- 

 quis of Bawden, and sister to Eryke, King of Sweden, 

 and the decorations of the chapel, &c. The christening 

 took place at the ' Queene's Palleyes, Westminster,' 

 30th Sept., Anno 1565, and the chappell was hung with 

 cloathe of gold. The communion table was richely fur- 

 nished with plate and Jewells, and amongst other orna- 

 ments were a ' Pountayne and Basen of mother-of-pearl, 

 two shippes of mother-of-pearle, and another shipe of 

 mother-of-pearl.' " Mr. G. R. Corner* mentions a very 

 elegant cup in the possession of the Queen, made of 

 staves of turbo-shell, mounted on a stem and foot of 

 silver gilt. He also adds that the polished, but un- 

 mounted turbo, has been employed as a festive cup in 

 Wales, to a comparatively late period. 



We read also of a watch set in " mother-of-pearle, 

 witii three pendantes of gold, garnished with sparkes of 

 rubies, and an opall ii? everie of them, and three small 

 pearles pendent," which Lord Russell presented to Queen 

 Elizabeth. The cathedral at Panama has two towers, 

 with short steeples on them painted white, and these 

 steeples are said by Mr. Elwesf to be faced with the 

 large pearl oyster-shells ; but they do not look well. 



The scabbard of the sword of the Emperor Napo- 

 laon I., which he wore when First Consul, is of gold and 

 mother-of-pearl ; and mock pearls are now much used 

 for jewellery made of the pearl-shell ; the effect being 

 nearly as good as real pearls, and far better than the 

 most successful imitations in paste; and Theophilus, in 

 his essay on various arts, speaks of " sea-shells which 

 are cut into pieces, and filed as pearls, sufficiently useful 



* ' Journal of Arohaeologieal Association,' vol. xir. p. 344, 345. 

 t W.S.W., or a Voyage in that Direction to the West Indies. 



