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his majesty’s army at Bristol was much in want of shoes—a hint 
something like a demand. Sir Hugh was a member of the Cor- 
poration when the city surrendered to Sir Thomas Fairfax, general 
of the Parliamentary army, on April 18th, 1646, and then 
commenced the troubles which cost him so much both in purse and 
person. First is an entry of his dismissal from the Corporation as 
follows: ‘‘ Also that Mr. Hugh Crocker, for his manifest opposicon 
to the Parliam', and his crueltie to those that were well-affected 
to their cause and pcedinges, is dismissed of this Society.” 
‘‘Nemine contradicente.”’ [This is in a different handwriting }. 
One of the members present, some uncompromising Republican and 
despiser of titles, takes the pen from the clerk’s hand, draws a line 
through the title ‘‘ Sir,” and inserts ‘‘ Mr. ;’’ and, to give vent to 
his acrimony, adds at the end of the minute the words ‘‘ nemine 
contradicente.” Not content with this, they throw some doubt 
upon his integrity: ‘‘23rd June, 1646. Auditors appointed to 
receive the accounts that were of late made by Sir Hugh Crocker 
touching the affaires of this cittie, and to reporte to this house 
what is therein contayned that they conceive not fitting to be 
allowed.” Later on, when the Parliamentary party were still in 
power, a John Wilkins was committed to the sessions for refusing 
to assist the constables in ducking one Crocker’s wife, perhaps the 
wife of the mayor knighted by King Charles. It is not unlikely, 
for Sir Hugh appears to have been in difficulties, and the most 
persecuted man in the city, though not without his friends. “12th 
July, 1653. Humphrey White, on hearing that the bailiffs were 
in Mr. Hugh Crocker’s house, went in at the back door, and was 
attacked by Mr. Andrew, a bailiff, with a sword and pistol, and 
wounded in the arm. He also attacked and dangerously wounded 
another bystander, and finding matters getting rather hot for him 
fled, and left his sword behind him.” 
Prince says that the Crocker family seemed rather to have given 
to than have taken their name from the places with which they 
were connected ; such as Crockern Tor, the seat of the old Stannary 
Court, Crockernwell, &c., for he goes on to say that they were 
‘‘of the antient Saxon race, and were a considerable tribe in these 
parts before the Norman Conquest.” ‘I have heard,” he adds, 
‘“‘the present heir of the family, Courtenay Crocker, Esq., say, 
that when he was in Saxony he met some gentlemen of his name 
there, and they gave the same coat of arms as he doth;” a plain 
