PECUNIAE. — SCALLOP. 107 



fishermen as lamps for their huts, and, according to 

 Fuller, they were also made use of by the pilgrims in 

 Palestine as cups and dishes ; but I believe that the 

 real Pilgrim scallop is Pecten Jacobcens, which is found 

 in the Mediterranean, and is smaller, more convex, the 

 ribs more defined and angular. The scallop was also 

 the badge of the pilgrim, and the poet Bowles says : — 



"He clad him in his pilgrim weeds, 

 With trusty statf in hand 

 And scallop shell, and took his way, 

 A wanderer through the land." 



Again, in Marmion, we read : — 



" The summoned Palmer came in place, 

 His sable cowl o'erhuug his face ; 

 In his black mantle was he clad, 

 With Peter's keys in cloth of red 



On his broad shoulders wrought ; 

 The ' scallop shell ' his cap did deck ; 

 The crucifix around his neck 



Was from Loretto brought; 

 His sandals were with travel tore, 

 Staff, budget, bottle, scrip he wore : 

 The faded palm-branch in his hand, 

 Showed pilgrim from the Holy Laud." 



At the present day many distinguished families bear 

 scallop shells on their shields, showing that their 

 ancestors had made pilgrimages to the Holy Land, or 

 other distant shrines ; and Fuller says : — 



" For the scallop shows a coat of arms, 

 That, of the bearer's line, 

 Some one in former days hath been 

 To Santiago's shrine." 



The scallop shell may be seen in the arms of the 

 Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Jersey* (whose ancestor, 



* i 



The Noble and Gentle Men of England,' by E. P. Shirley, Esq. 



