A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Crouch, or Crowch (John)

by Henry Robert Plomer

CROUCH, or CROWCH (JOHN), bookseller in London, 1635(?)-1653. Two men of this name took up their freedoms in the Stationers' Company within a few years of each other, the earlier of the two on February 4th, 1635, and the other on December 2nd, 1639, but whether they were related is not known. The first was the publisher of several of Thomas Heywood's plays, and cannot be traced after 1640. The second was apparently in partnership with Thomas Wilson, q.v., at the Sign of the 3 Foxes in Long Lane, and printed with him Mercurius Democritus, and also a pamphlet entitled The Tyranny of the Dutch against the English, in 1653. [Arber, iii. 687, 688.]