[4] The tapestry works at Mortlake almost ruined Crane, as it involved him in the considerable outlay of capital for an inadequate return, and in 1623 he was forced to appeal to the King, James I for financial help.

Building materials for Stoke Bruerne were brought from Grafton Regis where Crane demolished a house built by Henry VIII.

He died in Paris in 1636 after an operation for bladder stones and was buried at Woodrising in Norfolk, an estate he had purchased from Thomas Southwell.

[3] In January 1632, Crane had obtained a legacy from his brother-in-law, Peter le Maire, for charitable purposes, and began to build a kind of almshouse for poor knights at Windsor Castle.

Most of the Crane estates eventually passed to the heirs of his sister Edith, who married Gregory Arundell of Sheviock.