By Hook or by Crook

You have noted the origin of Humble Pie. May I add a note of a saying, in my opinion also derived from forest customs, viz. "By hook or by crook?" Persons entitled to fuel wood in the king's forest, were only authorised to take it of the dead wood or branches of trees in the forest, "with a cart, a hook, and a crook." The answer to the query respecting the meaning of "per serjantiam Marescautiæ," is the Serjeantry of Farriery, i.e. shoeing the king's horses. In Maddox, vol. i. p. 43. you will find a very full account of the office of Marescallus.