Gough says that the pastoral staff
found in the coffin of Grostete, Bp. of Lincoln, who died in 1254, was
made of red wood ending in a rudely shaped ram's horn. It was inscribed:
"Per baculi formam
Praelati discite normam."
In the first prayer-book of the Reformed English Church, 2 Edward VI.,
at the time of the holy communion the bishop is directed to have "_his
pastoral staff in his hand, or else borne by his chaplain_." It was used
in solemn benedictions; and so lately as at the coronation of Queen
Elizabeth. The second book of King Edward VI., published A.D. 1552,
being revived in that reign, the use of the staff was discontinued, as
we find by the consecration service of Archbishop Parker.
"Postq' haec dixissent, ad reliqua Communionis solemnia permit
Cicestren. nullu. Archie'po tradens Pastorale
baculum."--_Bramhall_, vol. iii. p. 205., Part i. Disc. 5. App.,
Oxon. 1844.
A crozier was borne at the funerals of Brian Duppa, of Winton, A.D.
1662; Juxon of London, 1663; Frewen of York, 1664; Wren of Ely, 1667;
Cosin of Dunelm, 1671; Trelawney of Winton, 1721; Lindsay of Armagh,
1724.
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