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The crucifix around his neck 



Was from Loretto brouglit ; 

 His sandals were with travel tore, 

 Staff, budget, bottle, scrip he wore : 

 The faded palm-branch in his hand. 

 Showed pilgrim from the Holy Land." 



At the present day, many distinguished families bear 

 scallop shells on their shields, showing that their an- 

 cestors 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. Sir 

 Richard de Villars, " assumed the coat of arms, argent, 

 on a cross gules five escallops or, in the reign of Ed- 

 ward 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 Bullingham, of Lincolnshire ; and that of 

 Bower, of Cloughton and Bridlington, Yorkshire, is an 

 escallop argent. 



The arms of Buckenham Priory, Norfolk, founded 

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

 Queen Adeliza, his wife, widow of King Henry 1., 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.f Another old abbey seal, of which 

 I have seen the impression, has the figure of St. James 



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

 t Moule's ' Heraldry of Eish,' p. 223. 



