cremittn.

1624 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 363 I give sixteene cremets here, in Well, fower markes. Note, This word occurs occasionally in the older registers at Well, applied to the inmates of the hospital, ‘eermits’ once.

1709 in Thoresby's Corr. II. 221 The word Cremits in your old deed relating to the Hospital at Well, is doubtless, or should be, Eremits.

1736 F. Drake Eboracum 284 The Eremites, or Hermits, in the north were corruptly called Cremitts; and there is an annual rent..called Cremitt-money at this day.