In the instances mentioned by MR. WALCOT, _croziers_ are repeatedly spoken of as having been borne at the funerals of _bishops_, while the crosses borne before Wolsey are called crosses, and not croziers. The word _crozier_ seems to be derived from the mediaeval Latin word _crocia_. This is explained by Ducange: "Pedum, baculus pastoralis, episcopalis." Crocia seems to be derived from, or closely connected with, "crocha, uncinus, lamus," and "crochum, uncus quo arcubalistae tenduntur" (Ducange). Hence it appears that _crozier_ does not refer to a cross but to a crook. In such ancient authorities as I have had the opportunity of referring to at the moment, as brasses, incised slabs, &c., bishops and archbishops are alike represented with the crooked staff; a cross is of more rare occurrence, and at the moment only two instances occur to me, one in the fine brass of Frederic, son of Casimir, king of Poland, and a cardinal, which is in the cathedral of Cracow, and in which he is represented holding a crozier, while crosses are figured on the sides under the cardinal's hat. The other is in the curious brass of Lambert, bishop of Bamberg, in the cathedral of that city: in this the bishop holds a cross in his right and a crozier in his left hand. The statement that the crook of the bishop's staff was bent outwards, and that of the abbot's inward, is one which is often made in books; I should, however, be very glad to learn whether any difference has been observed to exist either in mediaeval representations of croziers on seals, accompanying, effigies, or in paintings, or in the existing examples. So far as I have seen, the crook, in all except a few early instances, is bent in the same manner, _i.e._ inwards. N. _Socinian Boast_ (Vol. ii., p. 375.).--The following lines "De Ruina Babylonis" occur in the works of a Socinian writer, one Samuelis Przipcovius, who died in 1670, and evidently have reference to those quoted by Dr. Pusey:-- {413} "Quid per Luterum, Calvinum, perque Socinum, Funditus eversam jam Babylona putas? Perstat adhuc _Babylon_, et toto regnat in orbe Sub vario primum nomine robur habens. Ostentat _muros_, jactat sublimia _tecta_ De _fundamento_ quis metus esse potest? Ni Deus hanc igitur molem disjecerit ipse Humano nunquam Marte vel arte ruet." Przipcovius was a Polish knight, and cotempory the author of _Hudibras_. In a tract entitled _Religio Vindicata a Calumniis Atheismi_, he thus alludes to the spiritual Quixotism which induced Butler to "crack the satiric thong:"