scroyle

Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.

scroyle (plural scroyles)

1. (obsolete) A mean person; a wretch.
   • 1596, Shakespeare, King John:

     By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, / And stand securely on their battlements, / As in a theatre, whence they gape and point / At your industrious scenes and acts of death.

• “scroyle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• OED has more quotations

• Colyers, Corleys, Croleys, Crosley, Croyles, Lecroys