† Crowd sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. Also 4–5 crudde, 6 croude, crowde. [Anglo-Fr. crudde, app. corresponding to OF. crute, crote, later croute = Pr. crota, It. grotta:—late L. crupta, grupta, for L. crypta: see CRYPT. Of the d in the AF. and Eng. word no explanation has been found.] An underground vault, a crypt. (Also commonly in pl.)

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1399.  Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 129. Pro ostio in le Cruddes, 6d. Ibid. (1472), 225. Lez Cruddes voc. Seint Wilfride nedyll.

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1478.  Botoner, Itin. (Nasmith, 1778), 201. Ad introitum ecclesiæ voltæ vocatæ le crowd,… ad descensum voltæ de le croude.

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1501.  Will of Barre (Somerset Ho.). To be buried in the Crowde of Saint John Baptist in Bristow.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 700. Within the Church, Saint Wilfrides Needle…. A narrow hole this was, in the Crowdes or close vaulted roome under the ground. Ibid., I. 703. In a certaine vault or crowdes or a little chappell under the ground.

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1658.  Dugdale, St. Pauls, 117. Heretofore called Ecclesia S. Fidis, in Crypris (or [St. Faith] in the Croudes, according to the vulgar expression).

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