 The Bishop Pall Y was used by the early Earls of Glencairn, and by the Cunninghams of Barns.This argues against the theory that the Cunninghams were great allies of the Clan Comyn, whose shield bore sheaves of corn and that when the great Comyn dynasty was overthrown by the Clan Bruce, and the Cunninghams subsequently adopted the shake-fork that was used to "fork over" sheaves of corn as a reference to their former allies.