in that of St Calixtus in Rome). Other representations are in the
miniatures of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. To Edward Heron-Allen
(De fidiculis opuscula, viii., 1895) is due the discovery of a
representation of the Welsh crwth, showing the form still retained in
the 18th cent. On the seal of Roger Wade (1316) is a crwth
differing but little from the specimen in the Victoria and Albert
Museum. The 14th-century instrument
had four strings instead
of six, and the foot of the bridge
does not appear to pass through
the sound-hole—a detail which
may have escaped the notice of
the artist who cut the seal. The
original seal lies in the muniment
room at Berkeley Castle in
Gloucestershire attached to a
defeasance of a bond between
the crowder and his debtor Warren
de l’Isle, and a cast (see fig. 3) is
preserved at the British Museum.
The British Museum also possesses
two interesting MSS. which concern
the crwth: one of these
(Add. MS. 14939 ff. 4 and 27)
contains an extract made by
Lewis Morris in 1742 from an
ancient Welsh MS. of “Instructions supposed to be wrote for the
Crowd”; the other (Add. MS. 15036 ff. 65b and 66) consists of
tracings from a 16th-century Welsh MS. copied in 1610 of a
bagpipe, a harp and a krythe, together with the names of those who
played the last at the Eisteddfod. The drawing is crude, and shows
an instrument similar to Roger Wade’s crowd, but having three
strings instead of four.
The genealogical tree of the violin given below shows the relative positions of both kinds of rotta and chrotta.
The Welsh crwth was therefore obviously not an exclusively Welsh instrument, but only a late 18th-century survival in Wales of an archaic instrument once generally popular in Europe but long obsolete. An interesting article on the subject in German by J. F. W. Wewertem will be found in Monatshefte für Musik (Berlin, 1881), Nos. 7-12, p. 151, &c. (K. S.)
CROWE, EYRE EVANS (1799–1868), English journalist and
historian, was born about the year 1799. He commenced his
work as a writer for the London newspaper press in connexion
with the Morning Chronicle, and he afterwards became a leading
contributor to the Examiner and the Daily News. Of the latter
journal he was principal editor for some time previous to his
death. The department he specially cultivated was that of
continental history and foreign politics. He published Lives
of Foreign Statesmen (1830), The Greek and the Turk (1853),
and Reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. (1854). These were
followed by his most important work, the History of France
(5 vols., 1858–1868). It was founded upon original sources, in
order to consult which the author resided for a considerable
time in Paris. He died in London on the 25th of February 1868.
CROWE, SIR JOSEPH ARCHER (1828–1896), English consular
official and art critic, son of Eyre Crowe, was born in London on
the 25th of October 1828. At an early age he showed considerable
aptitude for painting and entered the studio of Delaroche
in Paris, where his father was correspondent of the Morning
Chronicle. During the Crimean War he was the correspondent of
the Illustrated London News, and during the Austro-Italian War
represented The Times in Vienna. He was British consul-general
in Leipzig from 1860 to 1872, and in Düsseldorf from
1872 to 1880, when he was appointed commercial attaché in
Berlin, being transferred in a like capacity to Paris in 1882.
In 1883 he was secretary to the Danube Conference in London;
in 1889 plenipotentiary at the Samoa Conference in Berlin;
and in 1890 British envoy at the Telegraph Congress in Paris,
in which year he was made K.C.M.G. During a sojourn in Italy,
1846–1847, he cemented a lifelong friendship with the Italian
critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1820–1897), and together
they produced several historical works on art of classic importance,
notably Early Flemish Painters (London, 1857); A New
History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Century
(London, 1864–1871, 5 vols.). In 1895 Crowe published Reminiscences
of Thirty-Five Years of My Life. He died at Schloss
Gamburg in Bavaria on the 6th of September 1896.
Crowe and Cavalcaselle’s great History of Painting was under revision by Crowe up to the time of his death, and then by S. A. Strong (d. 1904) and Langton Douglas, who in 1903 brought out vols. i. and ii. of Murray’s new six-volume edition, the 3rd vol., edited by Langton Douglas, appearing in 1909. A reprint of the original edition, brought up to date by annotations by Edward Huttons, was published by Dent in 3 vols. in 1909.
CROW INDIANS, or Absarokas (the name for a species of
hawk), a tribe of North American Indians of Siouan stock.
They are now settled to the number of some 1800 on a reservation
in southern Montana to the south of the Yellowstone river.
Their original range included this
reservation and extended eastward
and southward, and no part of the
country for hundreds of miles around
was safe from their raids. They
have ever been known as marauders
and horse-stealers, and, though
they have generally been cunning
enough to avoid open war with the
whites, they have robbed them whenever
opportunity served. Physically
they are tall and athletic, with very
dark complexions.
CROWLAND, or Croyland, a
market-town in the S. Kesteven
or Stamford parliamentary division
of Lincolnshire, England; in a
low fen district on the river
Welland, 8 m. N.E. of Peterborough,
and 4 m. from Postland station on the March-Spalding
line of the Great Northern and Great Eastern railways, and
Peakirk on the Great Northern. Pop. (1901) 2747. A monastery
was founded here in 716 by King Æthelbald, in honour of St
Guthlac of Mercia (d. 714), a young nobleman who became a
hermit and lived here, and, it was said, had foretold Æthelbald’s
accession to the throne. The site of St Guthlac’s cell, not far
from the abbey, is known as Anchor (anchorite’s) Church Hill.
After the abbey had suffered from the Danish incursions in 870,
and had been burnt in that year and in 1091, a fine Norman
abbey was raised in 1113. Remains of this building appear in
the ruined nave and tower arch, but the most splendid fragment
is the west front, of Early English date, with Perpendicular
restoration. The west tower is principally in this style. The
north aisle is restored and used as the parish church. Among
the abbots was Ingulphus (1085–1109), to whom was formerly attributed the Historia Monasterii Croylandensis. A curious triangular bridge remains, apparently of the 14th century, but referred originally to the middle of the 9th century, which spanned three streams now covered, and affords three footways which meet at an apex in the middle.
The town of Crowland grew up round the abbey. By a charter dated 716, Æthelbald granted the isle of Crowland, free from all secular services, to the abbey with a gift of money, and leave to build and enclose the town. The privileges thus
