Fuller, who styles him "a hopefull gentleman", states that "he drew a map of Cheshire so exactly with his pen that a judicious eye would mistake it for printing, and the graver's skill and industry could little improve it.
"[3] The map in question was published in Daniel King's The Vale Royall of England, or the County Palatine of Chester Illustrated (folio, London, 1656), a work in which Crew seems to have taken a personal share.
[2] Wishing to perfect his education, Crew travelled abroad, but on 19 September 1657, while walking in the streets of Paris, he was set upon by footpads wearing swords, and received wounds of which he died two days afterwards, at the early age of twenty-six.
equitis auratifilius iidus,Dñi Randulphi Crewe summi Angliæ justiciariinepos,hic sepultus facet in flore suæ ætatis, violentâet maleficâ manuperemptus.Dum enim placidè per plateas processit flagitiosoquorundam exorbitantium asseclarum gladioimmaniter atque immerenterconfossus est,et biduo post obiitxxi.
Creweof Crewe-Hall in the county of Chester,grandson ofLord Randolph Crewe, supreme judge of England.…Buried here in the flower of his age, killed by violentand evil hand.…While he was peacefully walking through the streetshe was disgracefully stabbed with the blade of certain followers (?