108 EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSCA. 



Sir Eichard de Villars, "assumed the coat of arms, 

 argent, on a cross gules, five escallops or," in the reign of 

 Edward I., as a badge for his services in the Crusades), 

 the Marquis Townshend, Lord Dacres, and many 

 others. An escallop argent, between two palm- 

 branches vert, is the crest of Bulliugham, of Lincoln- 

 shire ; and that of Bower, of Cloughton and Brid- 

 lington, Yorkshire, is an escallop argent. 



The arms of Backenham Priory, Norfolk, founded 

 about 1146, by William de Albini, Earl of Arundel, 

 and Queen Adeliza, his wife, widow of King Henry L, 

 were argent, three escallops sable ; and the seal of the 

 Priory bears the figure of St. James as a pilgrim, 

 with the scallop shell in his hat, a pilgrim's staff in 

 one hand, and a scrip in the other.* Another old 

 Abbey seal, of which I have seen the impression, has 

 the figure of St. James (or Saint Jacques de la Hovre) 

 in his pilgrim's dress, his staff in one hand and a scrip 

 in the other, with a scallop shell on either side of the 

 figure. The inscription, unfortunately, I could not 

 read, as it was indistinct. The Abbey of Reading, 

 Berks, was under the patronage of St. James the 

 Great, and bore as arms, " azure, three escallops or."f 

 On many monumental slabs and tombs the scallop shell 

 appears; and in Melbourne Church, Derbyshire, in a 

 canopied recess in the chancel, is a recumbent figure 

 of a knight, or crusader, with mail and surcoat, with a 

 shield on his arm bearing three scallop shells, with 

 chevron between. The monument is much mutilated, 

 and it is not known to whom it belongs. Again, in 

 St. Clement's Church, Sandwich, is a slab with the 



* Moule's « Heraldry of Fish,' p. 223. 



t ' Glossary of Heraldry,' Parker, Oxford. 



