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date 1583, to the memory of " George Eaw, gent., 

 sometyme mayor and customer of Sandwic, and mar- 

 chant adventurer in London /' with a shield bearing 

 the arms, ermine on a chief (gules), two escallop 

 shells (or) ; crest, a dexter arm embowered in armour 

 (sable), garnished (or), holding a scallop shell. How- 

 ever, the escallop in heraldry is borne not only as a 

 badge of pilgrimages, but by those who have made 

 long voyages, have gained great victories, or have had 

 important naval commands.* 



It is curious to remark, that leaden coffins, orna- 

 mented with scallop shells, rings, and beaded pattern, 

 belonging to a much earlier period, have been dug up 

 from time to time on the sites of Roman cemeteries. 

 Mr. C. Roach Smith, in an interesting paper on 

 ' Leaden Coffins/ in ' Journal of the Archaeological 

 Association/ vol. ii., mentions several. Two were 

 found at Colchester, and near one of them was an urn, 

 in which were two coins, one of Antoninus Pius, and 

 the other of Alexander Severus; again, in Weever's 

 ( Funeral Monuments/ mention is made of a similar 

 coffin (discovered in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, 

 in the district known to occupy the site of one of the 

 cemeteries of Roman London), the upper part orna- 

 mented with scallop shells ; having at the head and 

 foot two jars ; on the sides a number of bottles of 

 glistening red earth, some of which were painted, 

 and also some glass phials. The chest, or coffin, con- 

 tained the body of a woman. Leaden coffins have been 

 found at York, and in a Roman tomb at Southfleet, 

 Kent, and other places, as well as in France; and 



* Crests of Great Britain and Ireland/ vol. i. p. 525, by Fairbairn. 



