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Miscellanies.
"_By Hook or by Crook_" (Vol. i., p. 405.).--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 whence
arose the Cornish proverb, _they will have it by hook or by
crook_."--Hitchins and Drewe, _Hist. Cornwall_, p. 214. vol. ii. edit.
1824.