11*2 EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSCA. 



deposited a marble sepulchre, containing the ashes of 

 St. James, owing to the appearing of certain preter- 

 natural lights in a forest ; but others say that the dis- 

 covery was made by Theodorier, Bishop of Tria Flavia, 

 about 814. A rude chapel, suitable to the poverty of 

 the Christians, was immediately built by Alphonso, 

 the Chaste, king of Leon, and in 876, his successor, 

 Alphonso III., erected, on the spot, a temple more 

 worthy of the majesty of the saint.* The shells of 

 Galicia, or scallops, belouged exclusively to the Com- 

 postella pilgrim, and the Popes Alexander III., 

 Gregory IX., and Clement V., in their Bulls, granted a 

 faculty to the Archbishops of Compostella, to excom- 

 municate all who sold these shells to pilgrims anywhere 

 except in the city of Compostella. f 



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. In the 

 fifteenth century, Byruer 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 " Jacobitas," or " Jacobipetas," was given to 

 Compostella pilgrims, and there was an hotel in Paris 

 on purpose for receiving them if they were bound to 

 St. James's shrine; but the revenues failing, it was 



* ' Medii iEvi Kalendariutn,' &c, by R. J. Hampson, vol. ii. bk. ii. 

 p. 329. 



f ' On Pilgrims' Signs and Tokens,' by C. Roach Smith. See note, 

 * Archaeological Journal,' vol. i. p. 202. 



X See note, ' Pilgrims of the Middle Ages,' vol. vii. p. 308, ' Art 

 Journal,' 1861, by the Rev. E. L. Cutts. 



