Celtic Antiq. Also 5 croy. [Irish cró death, blood, blood-wyte.] ‘The compensation or satisfaction made for the slaughter of any man, according to his rank’ (Jam.).
13[?]. Reg. Maj. IV. xxx. Sc. Stat. I. 640. Quid sit le cro quod anglice dicitur Grant befor the Kyng.
1426. Sc. Acts Jas. I. (1566), § 104 (Jam.). To pay … the croy to the narrest of the kin of the slaine man.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 74. It is statute be the King, that Cro of ane Erle of Scotland is seven tymes twentie kye.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 286. Where Earles, Earles sonnes, Thanes, Ochierns and the like are distinguisht by their Croes.
1872. E. W. Robertson, Hist. Ess., 135. The Cro, or Wergild, of the Thane.
