Randolph Crew

Randolph or Randal Crew(e), Esq. (1631–1657) was an English amateur cartographer. He executed a map of Cheshire, and died from violence at Paris. 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. On an inscription thereon he states that he drew the map with his own pen, and after it was drawn engraved it at his own expense. This seems to be at variance with Fuller's statement quoted above, unless Fuller is alluding to the original drawing only.

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. Randolph Crewe,English gentleman, second son of the gilded knight Lord Clipsbei (?) 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 (?)inhumanely and undeserved,…and after two days he passed away.21 September 1657.His age27.