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it gives name, and the department of the Indre, fepa- 
rates the department of the Indre and Loire from that of 
Vienne, till about five miles eaft from La Have it lofes 
itfelf in the river Vienne. 
CREU'SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and principality of Culmbach i feven miles 
fouth of Bayreuth. 
CREUTZ, a town of Croatia, near the fource of the 
river Glocovni: fixteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Va- 
rafdin, and 118 fouth of Vienna. Lat. 46. zi. N. Ion. 
34. 5. E. Ferro. 
CREUTZ, a town of German^, in the archduchy of 
Auftria: five miles weft of Efferding. 
CREUTZ'BERG, or Philipfstal, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and principality 
of Heffe Homburg : twelve miles fouth-weft of Muhl- 
haufen, and twenty-nine weft of Erfurt. 
CREUTZ'BERG, or Klussboreck, a town of Si- 
lefia, in the principality of Brieg, furrounded with walls 
and ditches, with-a cattle and two churches. The prin¬ 
cipal trade of the inhabitants is in honey, wax, leather, 
and flax: twenty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Brieg, 
and twenty-fix north-eaft of Grottgaw. 
CREUTZ'BURG, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Natangen : fourteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ko- 
nigtberg. 
CREUTZ'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and principality of Eifenach: feven 
miles north-north-weft of Eifenach. 
CREUT'ZENACH, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, belonging to the elector palatine, 
in the county of Sponheim, once imperial, fituated on 
the Nahe, which divides it into Old and New Town. 
The ancient kings of the Franks had a palace here. It 
was taken and retaken feveral times during the late war 
between the French and Auftrians: fix miles fouth of 
Bingen; thirty weft-north-weft of Worms; and thirty- 
eight north of Deux Pouts. 
CREUT'ZOFF, a town of the duchy of Courland : 
fixteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Mittaw. 
CREUX, / [French.] A cavity out of which fome- 
thing has been Looped. It is a term of fculpture ; a 
work en creux'i s oppofed to a work raifed or in relief. 
CREUZ'BURG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Czaflau : ten miles north-eaft of Teutfch Brod. 
CREW,/. [Skinner derives it from kroethen, Dut. to 
drink or tope ; but Minfhew from cru, for acme , Fr. in- 
creafed.] A company of people alfociated for any pur- 
pofe : as gallant crew, for troops. 
There a noble crew 
Of lords and ladies ftood on every fide, 
Which with their prefence fair th'e place muchbeautified. 
Spcnfer. 
The company of a ftiip.—.The anchors dropped, his 
crew the veffels moor. Dry den. —It is now generally ufed 
in a bad fenfe : 
One of the banifh’d crew, 
I fear, hath ventur’d from the deep, to raile 
New troubles. Milton. 
The laft was he, whofe thunder flew 
The Titan race, a rebel crew. Addifon. 
CREW, [the preterite of crow.] Did crow.—.The 
Cock crew. Bible. 
CREW (Nathaniel), bilhop of Durham, a man con¬ 
cerning whom much has been faid and written; and on 
whofe foibles many fevere cenfures have been palled. It 
is not our province to enter into the merits of his diffe¬ 
rent biographers, nor is it generally necelfary to bring 
forward the miftakes and errors of the dead. Peace to 
their allies! Yet when men have adted in very public 
characters, and made fome figure in the hiftory of their 
country, it may become requifite to remark them, both 
as a warning to others, and becaufe an utter lilence might 
prove injurious to the caufe of truth, liberty, and virtue. 
Vol, V. No. 278. 
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From comparing the different accounts which remain of 
lord Crew, (who was a peer both of the temporal and 
fpiritual order,) we apprehend, impartial inquirers will 
be dilpofed to conclude, that he was a man who poffeffed 
abilities tor his own advancement, which he fteadily em¬ 
ployed tor that purpofe: ambitious and haughty, fond 
ot power and magnificence, he was prepared to purfue 
them with unceaiing regard, and too ready alfo to adopt 
meafures of opprellion and perfecution, when counte¬ 
nanced by thofe on whom he depended. His anceftors 
appear to have been men of honourable characters, who 
refilled the encroachments of the crown, and even dif¬ 
fered for that refiftance in the reign of Charles the Firft; 
who alfo, though they did not fall into the feveral ex- 
celfes and fanaticifms with which the lucceeding period 
was marked, remained firm in what appeared to them 
expedient for the public fervice. Nathaniel, the bilhop, 
feems early to have formed the refolution of walking in 
the road to preferment; and indeed inclined to relign 
any fentiment that might oppofe that darling objedl. In 
this progrefs, his face was let againft the principles of 
his family. He attached himfelf, with afliduous care, 
to the corrupt and diffolute court of Charles II. and, in 
particular, to the duke of York, afterward James II. 
Even James he appears willing to forfake, when times 
and circumftances were altered. It has been fuppofed 
that he was under the influence of fuperftition : but this 
is not fo evident ; he loved grandeur, oftentation, and 
pre-eminence in the forms of religion, as well as in every 
thing ell'e : but as to its principles, th'ey were, perhaps, 
more indifferent in his view, fo that his ambition might 
be gratified ; proud and prefumirig while in power, he 
was yet, if hiftory may be credited, equally fervile in 
order to attain, prefeive, or incrcafe, it; and as abject 
as fervile, when lie found himfelf in danger. He was the 
fifth fon of John lord Crew, to which title he fucceeded 
upon the death of his elder brother. He’ was born Ja¬ 
nuary 31, 1634, and was educated at Lincoln-college, 
Oxford, of which university he was proctor in 1663. In 
April 166 8, he was made clerk of the clofet to Charles If. 
and the fame month dean of Chichefter, and in i6jv 
bilhop of Oxford, from which fee he was tranfiated to 
that of Durham in October 1674. At the accellion of 
James II. he was made dean of the chapel-royal, and 
fworn of the privy-council ; and in 1686 was appointed 
of the ecclefiaftical commiftion. Upon the ftifpenfion of 
the bilhop of London, he Was commi (Tinned, with Dr, 
Sprat bilhop of Rochefter, and Dr. White bilhop of Pe¬ 
terborough, to exercife ecclefiaftical jurifdidtion in that 
diocefe. His lordlhip, among other inftanees of his time- 
ferving difpofition, and fervile' compliance with the man¬ 
dates of the court, was fo forward in fhewing refpedft to 
the pope’s nuncio (ent thither, that lie refilled to intro¬ 
duce Dr. Patrick, dean of Peterborough, to kifs the 
king’s hand, on account of his zeal againft popery! But 
the apprehenlion of the piince of Orange’s landing, im¬ 
mediately after, put an end to his concurrence with the 
meafures of king James, from whole 1 council-board he' 
withdrew : and the dread of the confeqiiences of his for¬ 
mer behaviour induced him to abfeond upon the abdica¬ 
tion of that king, in Which iituation he ottered to com¬ 
pound for his offencek by a refignation of his biftiopric, 
particularly to Dr. Burnet, on Whole generolity he would 
depend for an allowance of a thoufand pounds a-year dur¬ 
ing his life; which offer Dr. Burnet refufed. The bilhop 
afterwards ventured out of his retreat to the conVerition- 
parliament, in order to make a merit with the new go¬ 
vernment by voting for-it. But jheir majeft-ies had fo 
ill an opinion of him, that he was excepted out of the 
adt of indemnity paffe-d in 1690. However, at laft a full 
pardon was procured for him by Dr. Tillotfon, as well 
from his own difpofition to offices of that kind, as the 
folicitations of his friend Dr. William Bates, the politefl 
writer among the prelbyterians of his time, who had beerf 
engaged in the bilhop’s intereft. His lordlhip lived to 
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