, an ingenious printer in the sixteenth century, and a native of
, an ingenious printer
in the sixteenth century, and a native of Arras, was originally clerk to Charles du Moulin, and admitted advocate
to the parliament of Paris; but afterwards, forming a
friendship with Beza, he embraced the reformed religion,
and retired to Geneva, where he gained great reputation
by his printing, and died of the plague, 1572. Crispin
was author of a Greek Lexicon, Geneva, 1562, 4to, and
reprinted in folio. He also published a martyrology under
the title of “Histoire des vrais temoings de la verité, &c.
depuis Jean Hus, jusqu'au tems present,
” ibid.