PECTINlDiE. SCALLOP. 
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The crucifix around his neck 
Was from Loretto brought ; 
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 ttie 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 — 
“ Lor 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 arras, argent, 
on a cross gales 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 Grentle Men of England,’ by E. P. Shirley, Esq. 
t Moule’s ‘ Heraldry of Eish,’ p. 223. 
