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device of a pilgrim's staff, having a hat hung on its top, and a pilgrim's bag lying by it, which, I suppose, intimates the man's name to be James Palmer, a palmer or pilgrim signifying the same, and James rather than John, because so many palmers, or pilgrims, daily visited St. James at Compostella, who was the patron of the adjacent priory.
There are also shields of various arms, viz.
Or, semide-lises sab. for Mortimer.
A fess between three roundels, for Courtney.
The arms of the priory.
Tateshale. And erm. a fess gul. besides these,
