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To complete ; to perfeft.—The la fling and crowning pri¬ 
vilege, or rather property, of friendfliip, is conttancy. 
South. —To terminate ; to finilh : 
All thefe a milk-white honeycomb furround, 
Which in the midft the country banquet crown'd. Dryden. 
CROW'NET,yi The fame with coronet. In the fol¬ 
lowing paffage it feems to fig’nify chief end ; lafl pur- 
pofe : probably from finis coronat opus : 
Oh, this talfe foul of Egypt! this gay charm ! 
Whofe eye beck’dTorth my wars, and call’d them home ; 
Whole bofom was my crownet, my chief end ; 
Like a right gipfy hath, at faft and loole, 
Beguil’d me to the very heart of lofs. Skahefipeare. 
CROWN-IMPE'RIAL, f. See Fritillaria. 
CROWN-ISLAND, an illand in the Eaflern Sea, near 
the north-eafl coafl of New Guinea. Lat. 5. 18. S. Ion. 
146.50. E. Greenwich. 
CROWN-OFFICE, f. An office belonging to the 
court ot king’s-bench, of which the king’s coroner or 
attorney there is commonly mafier. The attorney-gene¬ 
ral, and clerk of the crown, exhibit informations in this 
office for crimes and mifdemeanors; the one ex officio , 
and the other ufually by order of court; and here in¬ 
formations may be laid for offences and mifdemeanors at 
common law, as for batteries, confpiracies, libelling, nui¬ 
sances, contempt, /editions words, &c. wherein the of¬ 
fender is liable to pay a fine to the king. By 4 & 5 
Will. & Mary, c. 18. the clerk of the crown in the 
king’s-bench is not to receive or file any information for 
trefpafs, battery, &c. without exprefs order of court; 
nor to ilfue any procefs without taking a recognizance in 
twenty pounds penalty to profecute with effect} and if 
the party appear, and the plaintiff do not procure a trial 
in a year; or if verdict pals for the defendant, &c. the 
court (hall award the defendant cofts ; but this act doth 
not extend to informations in the name of the king’s co¬ 
roner or attorney, &c. When a bat ery is committed pri¬ 
vately, fo that the perforr injured can make no proof 
thereof by witneffes at law, it is ufual to bring an in¬ 
formation in this office, or to prefer an indictment, the 
mo(l legal method, where the party may be awitnefsfor 
the king, it being his fuit. 
CROWN-POST,/ - . A pod in fome buildings Handing 
upright in the middle, between two principal rafters ; 
and from which proceed Units or braces to the middle 
of each rafter. It is otherwife called a king-pnfi , or king's- 
piece , or joggle-piece. 
• CROWR-WHEEL,yi of a watch, is the upper wheel 
next the balance, or that which drives the balance. 
CROWN-WORK, fi. in fortification, an out-work run¬ 
ning into the field ; deligned to keep off the enemy, gain 
lome hill, or advantageous poll, and cover the other 
works of the place. It confills of two demi-baftions at 
the extremities, ami an entire bullion in the middle, with 
curtains. The crovcned horn-work, is a horn-work with 
a crown-work before it. 
CROWN'GLASS,y. The fineft fort of window-glafs. 
CROWN'SCA B,fi. A (linking filthy fcab, that breeds 
about the corners of a horfe’s hoof, and is a cancerous 
and painful fore. 
CROX'AL (Samuel), an Englilh divine, poet, and 
mifcellaneous writer, born at Walton-upon-Thames, in 
what year is uncertain, but of which place his father 
was vicar. After receiving a claffical education at Eton 
fchool, he was fent to St. John’s college, Cambridge, 
where he principally made himlelf known by his zealous 
attfachment to the wljig intercll, and the poetical pieces 
which he publilhed in favour of that party, during tire 
latter part of queen Anne’s, and in the following, reign. 
3 hefe were, 1. Two Cantos, in Imitation of Spenfer’s 
Fairy Queen, as a lathe on the earl of Oxford’s admi- 
jullration. 2. A Poem to the duke of Argyle, upon his 
obtaining a vidory over the rebels in 1715. 3. The 
Villon, a poem, addreffed to the earl of Halifax. Thefe 
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pieces are not-without poetical merit; but, on account 
of their relation to temporary politics, are forgotten. In 
1720.he publilhed, 4. The Fair Circadian, a free tranf- 
lation, or rather imitation, of Solomon’s Song, in which 
the molt voluptuous ficenes in that amorous poem are 
depided with greater freedom than is conliftent with 
European manners. About this time he appears to 
have entered into orders, and to have been inllituted 
to the vicarage of Hampton in Middlefex. In 1722 
lie publilhed, 5. Fables of JEfop, and others, tran- 
fiated into Englilh, with inltrudive Applications. This 
work was well received, and continues Hill in the pof- 
feflion of the Ichools ; but is more to be commended 
for the utility of many of the maxims which it incul¬ 
cates, than for that general corrednefs of fentiment, and 
elegant fimplicity of ftile, which Ihould ever be predo¬ 
minant features in elementary works. Mr. Croxul wrote 
alfo the dedications prefixed to the Select Novels, printed 
in 1729; and was concerned, with feveral others, in a 
tranflation of Ovid’s Metamorphoies. In 1730-31, he 
was inllituted to the united parilhes of St. Mary Somer- 
fet anti St. Mary Mountihaw, in London, which he held 
till his death. He was alfo made chancellor, preben¬ 
dary, canon-refidentiary, and portionill, of the cathedral 
at H reford ; dodor in divinity ; houfe-chaplain to the 
royal palace at Hampton-coart; and, in 1732, chaplain 
to the king, and archdeacon of Salop, in the diocefe of 
Hereford. In 1734 he obtained the vicarage of Selleck 
in Herefdrulhire ; and in the following year publilhed, 
in odavo, Scripture Politics; being a View of the ori¬ 
ginal Confutation, and fubfequent Revolutions, in the 
Government, religious and civil, of that People, out of 
whom the Saviour of the World was to arife, as it is 
contained in the Bible. This work will be found chiefly 
ufeful to unlearned and general readers. In 1750 Dr. 
Croxal publilhed a poem, intitled the Royal Manual, 
Hated in the preface to be the production of Andrew, 
Marvel, but more probably the production of the edi¬ 
tor ; and another poem called Collin’s Miflake, has alio 
been attributed to him. He was likewife the author of 
feveral fingle fermons, publiffied on different occalions. 
He died, at a very advanced age, in 1752. 
CROY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Somme : Jive miles north-well of Amibns. 
CROY'DEN, a townfliip of the American States, in. 
Cheihire county, New Hamplhire, adjoining Corniffi, and 
about eighteen miles north-eall of Charlefiown. It was 
incorporated in 1763; and contained, in 1790, five hun¬ 
dred and thirty-feven inhabitants. 
CROY'DON, a handfome town in the county of Sur¬ 
rey, fituated on the edge of Banfiead-downs, ten miles 
from London. Here was once a royal palace, which was 
given to the archbilhops of Canterbury. Archbilhop 
Whitgift built an hofpital here, endowed with farms, - 
for the maintenance of a warden, and twenty-eight men 
and women, decayed houfe-keepers of Croyden and Lam¬ 
beth ; with a fchool for ten boys and ten girls, and a 
houfe for the mailer, who muH be a clergyman. The 
church here is reckoned the fineft and largefi in the 
county. The manor of Croydon has belonged ever fince 
the conqueff to the archbilhops of Canterbury ; and here 
are the remains of a palace, in which thefirfi prelate that 
can be traced as relident was archbilhop Peckham in 
1278, and the lafi was archbiffiop Hutton in 1757. In 
1780, an aft of parliament was obtained, the preamble 
to which Hated, that the palace was in fo low and un- 
wholefome a fituation, and in many refpecls fo incom¬ 
modious and unfit to be the refidence of an archbilhop 
of Canterbury, that few of the ar.chbiffiops had of lute 
years been able to relide there, and the fame was then 
unfit to be their habitation. It vefied this palace and 
its appurtenances in truHees, that it might be fold, and 
empowered them to build a new palace at Park-Hill 
Farm, pleafantly fituated about half a mile from Croy¬ 
don. The palace, with its appurtenances, was accord¬ 
ing^ 
