532 CRETING CRETINGC) BARONY BY i. John de Creting,(*') s. and h. of Sir Adam de WRIT. C.,(') SherifF of Cork 1293, and Marshal of the English army in Gascony, 1294 (who was killed at Risonce,^) I. 1332. 1295), possibly by Nicole his wife. He was b. at Strigul {i.e. Chepstow), in Wales, about 1275, being nearly of age at his father's death; he served under him in Gascony 1295, was captured by the French and taken to Paris,(') being still a prisoner in France Sep. 1298.0 By Mar. 1 299/1 300 he had been released and had done homage for his English and Irish lands. (^) He was sum. to Pari, on three occasions in one year, viz. 27 Jan., 20 July, and 20 Oct. (1332) 6 Edw. Ill, by writs directed Johanni de Cretyng, whereby he is held to have become LORD CRETING.C") Except during the year 1332, neither he nor any member of his family was ever sum. to Pari., and at his death, the date of which has not been discovered, any Barony which may be supposed to have been cr. by the above writs is presumed to have become extinct. CREW OF STENE BARONY. I. John Crew, s. and h. of Sir Thomas C.,(') of Stene, Northants (Speaker of the House of Commons I. 1661. 1623-25, who d. 31 Jan. 1633), by Temperance, da. and coh. of Reynold Bray, of Stene afsd., was b. 1598; matric. at Oxford(Magd. Coll.), 26Apr. 161 6; M.P.forAgmondesham, 1624-26; for (^) This article is based on information kindly supplied by Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, K.C.B. V.G. (*) Creting is a village in Suffolk. Very little is known of this John, from the infrequency of any mention of his name in the various Rolls and Records of the time. He may be assumed not to have been of much importance, probably a good deal less than his father, the Marshal in Gascony, who was never sum. to Pari. V.G. (•=) This Adam ot., 2ndly, some 12 years after John's birth, Julian, widow of Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond in Connaught, da. of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Lord Justice of Ireland. She was living in England in 1292. V.G. {^) His death was due to the treachery of Sir Walter Giffard. {Rishanger, p. 149). He held lands in cos. Suffolk, Hunts, Essex, and Flint. [Inq. p. m.) V.G. (*) Rishanger, p. 149. V.G. (') Close Rolls, 1298, p. 175, and Patent Rolls, 1298, pp. 361-62. V.G. (S) Patent Rolls, 1300, p. 501, and Close Rolls, 1300, p. 34O. V.G. C") As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. (') He was s. and h. of John C. of Wich Malbank (who d. 1598), by Alice, da. of Humphrey Mainwaring, and was yr. br. of Sir Randolph Crewe, of Crewe Hall, CO. Chester, Ch. Justice of the King's Bench, 1625-26 (in which capacity he de- livered the famous "opinion" of the judges on the claims to the Earldom of Oxford and the Lord Great Chamberlainship), ancestor, in the female line, of the Lords Crewe of Crewe. V.G.
