by his Majesty's most auspicious accession and arrival, written in the stanza and measure of Spencer by Mr. Croxall,’ London, 1714, folio. 4. ‘The Vision, a Poem by Mr. Croxall,’ London, 1715, folio. 5. ‘Ovid's Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands, adorn'd with sculptures,’ London, 1717, folio (edited by Sir S. Garth, with translations by Addison, Dryden, Garth, Tate, Gay, and others; Croxall translated the sixth book, three stories of the eighth book, one story of the tenth, seven of the eleventh, and one of the thirteenth). 6. ‘The Fair Circassian, a dramatic performance done from the original by a gentleman-commoner of Oxford,’ London, 1720, 4to, pp. 28, 1721, 12mo, 1729, 1755, 1756, 1759, 1765, &c. (no illustrations in the first edition; many of the reprints have illustrations, and ‘Occasional Poems’ were also added). 7. ‘A Select Collection of Novels in six volumes, written by the most celebrated authors in several languages, many of which never appeared in English before; and all new translated from the originals by several eminent hands,’ London, 1722–1720–1721, 6 vols. 12mo. ‘The second edition with addition,’ London, 1729, 6 vols. 12mo (additional woodcuts and stories). ‘The Novelist or Tea Table Miscellany, containing the Select Novels of Dr. Croxall, with other polite tales, &c.,’ London, 1765, 2 vols. 12mo. 8. ‘Fables of Æsop and others, newly done into English, with an application to each Fable, illustrated with cuts,’ London, 1722, 8vo (196 fables in first edition; the ‘third edition improv'd’ appeared in 1731, 12mo; the fifth in 1747; and the twenty-fourth in 1836, 12mo. Croxall's ‘Fables’ are still reprinted, and an abridgment, with new applications by G. F. Townsend (1877, &c.), is also published). 9. ‘Scripture Politics: being a view of the original Constitution and subsequent Revolutions in the Government, Religious and Civil, of that people out of whom the Saviour of the World was to arise, as it is contained in the Bible,’ London, 1735, 8vo. In Cooke's ‘Preacher's Assistant,’ 1783, ii. 95, is a list of six printed sermons by Croxall. ‘The Midsummer Wish,’ ‘Florinda seen while she was Bathing,’ and other pieces were added to the ‘Fair Circassian,’ some editions of which contain the ‘Royal Manual.’ ‘Colin's Mistakes’ was reprinted by Nichols (Select Coll. vii. 345–9).
[G. Jacob's Poetical Register, ii. 40; Cibber's Lives of the Poets, v. 288–97; J. Nichols's Select Collection of Poems, vii. 345–6; Biog. Brit. (Kippis), iv.; Chalmers's Gen. Biog. Dict., xi.; Baker's Biog. Dramatica, vol. i. pt. i. p. 159; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. ii. 667; Notes and Queries, 6th series, xi. 425, 517, xii. 59.]
CROXTON, THOMAS (1603?–1663?), parliamentarian, son of George Croxton of Ravenscroft, Northwich Hundred, Cheshire, by Judith, daughter of William Hassal of Burland in the same county, was born about 1603. He was colonel in the parliamentary army in 1650; militia commissioner for Chester the same year; member of a court-martial for trial of certain misdemeanants of quality on 10 Sept. 1651, and was continued in the militia commission in March 1654–5. In 1659 he was in command of Chester Castle when Sir George Booth's rising took place. The rebels entered the town and called upon him to surrender. He is said to have replied ‘that as perfidiousness in him was detestable, so the castle which he kept for the parliament of England was disputable, and if they would have it they must fight for it, for the best blood that ran in his veins in defence thereof should be as sluices to fill up the castle trenches.’ He held out for about three weeks, when he was relieved by Lambert shortly after the battle at Northwich. The garrison was then in some distress for want of food. On 17 Sept. the House of Commons voted Croxton a reward for his services. He continued irreconcilable to royalism after the Restoration, and in 1663 was arrested and secured in Chester Castle on a charge of ‘plotting a general rebellion.’ He probably soon died there. Croxton married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Holland of Denton, Lancashire. His son, George Croxton, succeeded him, and died in 1690.
Ormerod's Cheshire, ed. Helsby, iii. 206–8; Mercurius Politicus, 28 July–17 Sept. 1659.]
CROZIER, FRANCIS RAWDON MOIRA (1796?–1848), captain in the navy, entered the navy in 1810; served in the Hamadryad and Briton with Captain Sir Thomas Staines; in the Meander, guardship in the Thames, and Queen Charlotte, guardship at Portsmouth; passed his examination in 1817, and in 1818 went to the Cape of Good Hope as mate of the Doterel sloop. On his return to England in 1821 he was appointed to the Fury, discovery ship, with Captain William Edward Parry [q. v.] In the Fury and afterwards in the Hecla he accompanied Captain Parry in his three Arctic voyages, 1821–7; his services being rewarded by a lieutenant's commission, bearing date 2 March 1826. From 1831 to 1835 he served in the Stag on the coast of Portugal, and in December 1835 joined the Cove,
