Palmer A pilgrim privileged to carry a palm-staff: In Fosbroke's British Monachism we read that “certain
prayers and psalms being said over the pilgrims, as they lay prostrate before the altar, they were sprinkled
with holy water, and received a consecrated palm-staff. Palmers differed from pilgrims in this respect: a
pilgrim made his pilgrimage and returned to public or private life; but a palmer spent all his days in visiting
holy shrines, and lived on charity.