One of the earliest tombs
bearing a staff incised, is that of Abbot Vitalis, who died in 1082, and
may be seen in the south cloister of St. Peter's Abbey in Westminster.
There were croziered as well as mitred abbots: for instance, the
superior of the Benedictine abbey at Bourges had a right to the crozier,
but not to the mitre. The Abbot of Westminster was croziered and mitred.
I intended to write a reply, but have enabled with a note.
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
7. College Street, Westminster
J.Z.P. will find a fully satisfactory answer to his Query, in regard to
the real difference between the crozier and the pastoral staff, on
referring to the article headed "Crozier," in the _Glossary of
Architecture_. It is there stated, that "the crozier of an archbishop is
surmounted by a cross; but it was only at a comparatively late time,
about the 12th century, that the archbishop laid aside the pastoral
staff, to assume the cross as an appropriate portion of his personal
insignia." From which it may be inferred, that the only existent real
difference between the crozier and the pastoral staff is, that the
former is surmounted by a cross, and the latter is as it was before the
12th century, viz.
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