"By Hook or by Crook"

The following extract may, perhaps, by multiplying instances, tend to corroborate the supposed origin of the above saying:— "Not far from them [Peverell's Crosses], in the parish of Egloshayle, is another moonstone [granite] cross near Mount Charles, called the Prior's Cross, on which is cut the figure of a *hook* and a *crook*, in memory of the privilege granted by him to the poor of Bodmin, for gathering for fire-boot and house-boot such boughs and branches of such trees in his contiguous wood of Dunmere, as they could reach with a *hook and a crook* without further damage to the trees. From…