>Thanks, George. It's always good to have some kind of confirmation of things of heard from more than one source. I've always wondered if this is where the term "cris-cross" comes from?

To be honest, Fred, I don't know for sure, but my handy dictionary did provide the following:

"[obs. christcross, crisscross (mark of a cross)]"

so it would appear that there is some evidence in the above to support that.