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Admitted 3 November, 1660.

Eldest son of Ellis Crisp of London (Sheriff in 1625). He was engaged in the African trade, and was one of a company having exclusive rights of trade in Guinea, 1632. He received the honour of knighthood in 1641, but was attacked in the Long Parliament as a monopolist, and expelled the House. In the Civil War, he took the side of the King, and served both on land and sea, with great pecuniary loss to himself. At the Restoration he obtained some compensation, and was created a Baronet in 1665, ten months before his death, 26 Feb. 1665-6.

Admitted 21 February, 1593-4.

He is entered on the Register as "Herbert Crofte, of Crofte, co. Hereford"; but he was the son of Edward Croft, of Croft Castle, the representative of a family settled in Herefordshire before the Conquest. He was educated at Oxford. He represented his county in Parliament in 1592, and again in 1601, 1603, and 1614. He was knighted by James I. in 1603. Late in life he imbibed Roman Catholic opinions, and retired to the monastery at Douay, where he spent the rest of his days in devotion and religious exercises. He died 10 April, 1622.

During his residence at Douay, he wrote various treatises in the form of Letters addressed to his wife and children in favour of the Roman Church, and the advantage of belonging to it, all of which were printed at Douay about 1619.

Admitted 19 April, 1553.

Son and heir of Richard Crompton, citizen and merchant of London. He was Autumn Reader in 1573, and Lent Reader, 1578. In 1583 he edited Fitzherbert's Office et Aucthoritie de Justices de Peace, and in 1587 he published a tract on Traytors and Conspirators, and the Duetie of Subjects to their Sovereigne; but his chief work was on L'Authorllie des Courts de la Majestic de la Roygne, published in 1594. Another work on The Honorable Acts of Sundrie English Kings and Princes, and entitled, The Mansion of Magnanimitie, was published in 1599.

Admitted 2 April, 1806.

Eldest son of Richard Crosse of Broomfield, near Bridgwater, Somerset, where he was born 17 June, 1784. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; but succeeding to a competent fortune, he spent his leisure in the study of electricity, chemistry and mineralogy, for which he had a very early liking. At a meeting of the British Association at Bristol in 1836, he laid the results of his experiments before that body, and at once became celebrated, bat he still continued to lead a secluded life, devoting himself to electrical researches, occasionally reading Papers before the Electrical Society and the British Association. He died 6 July, 1855.

Admitted 8 February, 1837.

Eldest son of William Henry Crowder of Clapham Common, Surrey. He was admitted from Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the Bar in 1821.