The staff wreathed with palm, the cockleshell in the hat, and the sandal-shoon were all marks of the pilgrim, showing he had been beyond sea and in the Holy Land. Thus in the old ballad of “The Friar of Orders Gray”:⁠—

“And how should I your truelove know

From many another one?

O by his cockle-hat and staff,

And by his sandal-shoone.”

“And how should I your truelove know From many another one? O by his cockle-hat and staff, And by his sandal-shoone.”