Crutched Friars, an order of friars, carrying in their hand a staff, on the top of which was a cross, received the name of Croisiers (Fr. croix, 'cross'), corrupted into Crouched or Crutched
Friars. They came to England in the 13th century, and had monasteries in London (which still gives name to a street), Oxford, and Reigate.