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(or Saint Jacques de la Hovre) in his pilgrim's dress, his 

 staiF 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. 

 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. element's Church, Sandwich, is a slab with the 

 date 1583, to the memory of " George Raw, gent., some- 

 tyme mayor and customer of Sandwic, and marchant 

 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. However, 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 ornamented 

 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,' 



* See ' Crests of Great Britain and Ireland,' vol. i. p. 525, by Pair- 

 bairn, 



