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astonished friends. He told them all that had happened, 

 and they, too, were converted, and the knight baptized 

 his bride with his own hand. Now, when the knight 

 emerged from the sea, both his dress and the trappings 

 of his horse were covered with scallop shells ; and, there- 

 fore, the Galicians took the scallop shell as the sign of 

 St. James."* 



Florezf says that a Galician peasant discovered, in 

 the ninth century, the spot in which was deposited a 

 marble sepulchre, containing the ashes of St. James, 

 owing to the appearing of certain preternatural lights in 

 a forest. The shells of Galicia, or scallops, belonged 

 exclusively to the Compostella pilgrim, and the Popes 

 Alexander III., Gregory IX., and Clement V., in their 

 Bulls, granted a faculty to the archbishops of Compo- 

 stella, to excommunicate all who sold these shells to 

 pilgrims anywhere except in the city of Compostella. ;[; 



When the marriage of Edward I., King of England, 

 took place with Leonora, sister of Alonzo of Castile, a 

 protection to English pilgrims was stipulated for, but 

 they came in such numbers that they alarmed the 

 French, who threw difficulties in their way. Tn the fif- 

 teenth century, Rymer mentions that 916 licences were 

 granted to make the pilgrimage to Santiago in 1428; 

 in 1434 as many as 2460 were granted. § The name 

 of Jacobite, or Jacobipetse, was given to Compostella 



* " Pilgrims of the Middle Ages," Rev. E. L. Cutts, M.A., ' Art 

 Journal,' 1861, p. 309. 



f ' Histoi'ia Compostellana,' lib. i. cap. ii. apud { Espafia Sagrada,' 

 tome xx. 



X " On Pilgrims' Signs and Tokens," C. Roach Smith. See note, Ar- 

 chaeological Journ., vol. i. p. 202. 



§ See note, " Pilgrims of the Middle Ages," vol. vii. p. 308, Rev. E. 

 L. Cutts. 



