The rare privilege of supporters, which hold up the shield, is granted a little more generously in Scotland than in England at the discretion of the Lord Lyon.
The splendid 1828 arms of Pringle of Whytbank and Yair show a type of supporter the French would call tenants - i.e. human figures, in this case "pilgrims habited proper." The scallop shells of St James of Compostella give a clue as to the nature of the pilgrimage, the Pringles claiming to have accompanied Sir James Douglas there with the heart of Robert the Bruce.
