The respect

for him.

England, as may be a noble mark of sovereign grace and favour, to remain to him and his posterity, and may be in some measure a proportionable compensation for the great loss which he hath, with so much patience and resolution, sustained." Nothing was done for him before the civil war broke out; but he had that highest reward, the good opinion of his fellow citizens. He seems to have enjoyed the sym- entertained pathy and respect of all honest men from the time of his dismissal from office. Fuller says quaintly, "The country hath constantly a smile for him for whom the court hath a frown. This knight was out of office, not out of honour,-living long after at his house in Westminster, much praised for his hospitality." He adds, "I saw this worthy Judge in 1642, but he survived not long after." *

His death.

His last days were disturbed by the clash of arms. The struggle between the parties which, in his youth, had been carried on in St. Stephen's Chapel, and in Westminster Hall, was now transferred to Edgehill and Marston Moor. We are not informed to which side he inclined, but the probability is, that, being a steady friend of constitutional monarchy, he dreaded the triumph of either, and that, like the virtuous Falkland, he exclaimed with a sigh, PEACE! PEACE! He languished till the 13th of January, 1646, when he expired in the eighty-seventh year of his age, -leaving Cromwell to wield the sceptre which he had seen in the hand of Queen Elizabeth. He was buried in the family cemetery at Crewe. All lawyers are familiar with his singularly shrewd physiognomy, from an admirable print of him in Dugdale's ORIGINES JURIDICIALES.

His male descendants remained "Crewes of that ilk "

* Worthies, vol. ii.

for several generations.

His descendants.

Feb. 25, 1806.

The estate then came to an

heiress, who married John Offley, Esq., of Madely, in the county of Stafford. Their son, on succeeding to it, took, by act of parliament, the name and arms of Crewe. His grandson was raised to the peerage by King George III., being created Baron Crewe, of Crewe, in the county of Chester; and the Chief Justice is represented by Richard, the third Lord Crewe.

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