CROFT, SIR JAMES (d. 159o), lord deputy of Ireland. After representing Herefordshire in parliament in 1541 he be came governor of Haddington in 1549, lord deputy of Ireland
and later governor of Berwick. In 1570 Elizabeth made him a privy councillor and controller of her household. He was one of the commissioners for the trial of Mary Stuart, and in 1588 was sent to arrange peace with the duke of Parma. He died on Sept. 4, 159o.
HERBERT CROFT (1603—I691), Chaplain to Charles I., held a prebend's stall at Worcester, a canonry of Windsor, and, under Charles II., the bishopric of Hereford. He was the author of the controversial work : The Naked Truth or the True State of the Primitive Church (London, 1675).
See D. Lloyd, State Worthies from the Reformation Bibliography.—See D. Lloyd, State Worthies from the Reformation to the Revolution (2 vols. 1766) ; Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (ed. Bliss, 1813-2o) • J. Strype, Annals of the Reformation (Oxford, 1824) ; R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. i. (1885).
