96 On Pilgrims’ Signs found in Salisbury. 
beheld Giraldus and his friends with the signs of the saint hung 
about their necks.! 
In the Bernal Sale (lot 901) last year, a picture of the school of 
Mabuse, attracted the especial attention of Antiquaries. It re- 
presented Louis the Twelfth distributing alms to a beggar woman 
and a Pilgrim, whose tattered habiliments were decorated with these 
signs. 
The signs here engraved are so accurately represented, that they 
need no description, but they present very singular devices which 
require interpretation. This, however, I am by no means confident 
I can supply. 
The first may possibly be symbolical of Saint John the Baptist.” 
The same device occurs on the Irish Coins of John, and the English 
money of Henry the Third, but these signs are of a much later date 
than the reigns of those monarchs. The crescent and star were 
used as the livery of John’s household,’ and there are several 
passages in Matthew Paris which show that the King had a peculiar 
veneration for the saint his namesake. 
No. 2. probably represents Saint Michel the Archangel, or Saint 
George. The figure appears to be clad in a coat of mail, but the 
hands, instead of grasping a spear, are open, and the arms extended. 
No. 8. invites explanation from some of our Antiquaries who 
have made the symbolism of the middle ages their study. The 
device is surrounded with a legend, which accords in barbarism 
with the characters in which it is expressed, 
SOLI . DEO. HONOS. ET. AMOR. ET. GLORY. 
1 Episcopus autem videns ipsum intrantem, cujus notitiam satis habuerat, et 
socios suos cwm signaculis B. Thome 4 collo suspensis. ‘‘Giraldus Cambrensis 
de Rebus 4 se Gestis,’”’ Pars 2, Ang. Sacra, Tom. II, p. 481, Edition 1691. 
2 The moon as well as the morning star, were emblems of this saint. As the 
moon in the absence of the sun, reflects his light, and testifies of his existence, so 
it was said of John that ‘‘he was sent to bear witness of that light.”’ So likewise 
the Baptist was represented as the morning star, the forerunner of the “Sun of 
Righteousness.” See the ‘‘ Numismatic Chronicle,” vol. II, p. 188. 
3 “Numismatic Journal,” vol. II, p. 254. 
4 Vide inter alia, Matthew Paris, sub anno, 1200, 
