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EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 
(or Saint Jacques de la Hovre) in his pilgrim’s dress^ his 
staff 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. Clement’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 Gfreat Britain and Ireland,’ vol. i. p. 525, by Fair* 
bairn. 
