Croziers and Pastoral Staves

The opinion expressed by the REV. MR. WALCOT (in your No. 50.), that by the word *crozier* is to be understood the crossed staff belonging only to archbishops and legates, while the staff with a crook at its end is to be called the pastoral staff, cannot, I think, be considered satisfactory, for the following, among other reasons. Crozier is generally (I should formerly have said universally) understood to mean the staff with a crook, the so well-known "ensign of bishops." In the instances mentioned by MR. WALCOT, *croziers* are repeatedly spoken of as having been borne at the funerals of *bis…