1541. Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 19. No person … shall carie … in any ship, bote, craie, or vessell any white wollen clothe.
1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., XXXIX. xxviii. (1634), 328. With gallies, bulks and crayes … with sailes and oares to help at all assayes.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxii. (1748), 349. Some shell or little crea, Hard labouring for the land, on the high-working sea. Ibid. (1627), Agincourt, 11. Skiffes, Crayes, Scallops, and the like … cou’red all the Seas.
