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wife to John, Erie of Este Erieseland, 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 ^ Qneene’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 ^ Eountayne and Basen of mother-of-pearl, 
two shippes of mother -of- pearle, and another shipe of 
mother-of-pearl.^ Mr. G. R. Corner‘d 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. 
M'e read also of a watch set in mother-of-pearle, 
with three pendantes of gold, garnished with sparkes of 
rubies, and an opall in 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- 
leon 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 Archaeological Association,’ vol. xiv. p. 344, 345. 
t W.S.W.j or a Voyage in that Direction to the West Indies. 
