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The Morning Post of 22 Jan., 1778, in a paragraph referring to the engagement of the Duke of Hamilton (Lady Derby's brother) to Miss Elizabeth Burrell, supplies the chief clue :

" The Duke of Hamilton fell in love with Miss Burrell at the cricket match at the Oaks lost year

probably when she took bat in hand. Then her

Diana-like air communicated an irresistible im- pression. She got more notches in the first and second innings than any lady in the game."

Another paragraph from the same paper of 18 July, 1777, is also instructive :

" From the great patronage cricket has received from the Maid of the Oaks [Lady Derby's sobriquet] and others it has become quite the ton for our young nobility to adopt that favourite game."

Thus it appears tolerably certain that the Countess of Derby's cricket match was played in the summer of 1777. I have followed the movements of this lady, as revealed in the daily newspapers and else- where, very closely during the whole of this year, and it seems to me that there is no doubt that her game of cricket took place in June. On 9 and 10 June " a grand cricket match " between the Gentle- men of Chertsey and the Coulsdon Club was played at the Oaks, and I find that the Duke of Dorset, the Duke of Hamilton, and Mr. Burrell (Miss Elizabeth BurreU's brother) were all present. No other date will fit in with Laay Derby's movements, and thus I conjecture that the ladies' cricket match occurred on one of these days, or about this time. Is this the first Ladies' Cricket Match on record ?

The Public Advertiser of 29 July, 1768, describes a cricket match which took place at Upham in Wiltshire on Saturday, 23 July, between eleven married and eleven single women for a plum cake and a barrel of ale, " which was won with difficulty by the latter " ; but this does not appear to have been of the same class as the game at the Oaks. HOKACE BLEACKLEY.

[A match between women in 1747 is noticed by MR. A. F. ROBBIXS at 9 S. iv. 474].

JAMES ISAACSON, M.P. FOB BANBURY. He was expelled the House on 11 Feb., 1698/9, for being concerned in farming the Customs, contrary to the Act 5 and 6 William and Mary. He had been appointed a Commissioner of Stamps 21 May, 1694, but resigned that office after his expulsion. He was, however, reappointed 7 Dec., 1700, and continued to hold the office until June, 1702. On 20 May, 1707, he was appointed a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland, resigning in July, 1709. I shall be obliged

by any information as to the parentage and after history of this gentleman. A pedigree of Isaacson appears in the ' Visitation of London ' (vol. ii. p. 3), but whether or not it relates to the same family is uncertain.

W. D. PINK.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. He seized her by her left leg, and flung her down- stairs.

LEWIS MELVILLE. [The line is the last of

Goosey, goosey gander, whither shall I wander ? Upstairs and downstairs, and in my lady's chamber. There I met an old man who would not say his

prayers ; I took him by his left leg and threw him down the

stairs.

The music as well as the words will be found at p. 170 of 4 Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes ' (Rout- ledge & Sons).]

1. Le hasard c'est peut-etre le pseudonyme de Dieu quarid il ne veut ims signer.

2. So we arraign her, but she

V. H. C. [2. See Matthew Arnold's ' Heine's Grave.']

WELSH AND TUDOR HERALDRY. 1. What were the arms of Owen Glyndwr as a knight ? What arms did he assign to the Principality on his coronation as Prince of Wales ?

2. What were the original arms of the Tudor family ? Were they ever quartered with the royal arms by Henry VII. ?

3. Are there any records of grants of arms made by any of the Welsh princes ? There is one curious grant made by Llewelyn ap lorworth to a certain Maclog Goch of Mawddwy, mentioned in Lady Charlotte Guest's notes to her translation of the ' Mabinogion.' The arms were Arg., a chevron per pale gu. and or, inter three eagles sable, their heads and one leg grey, trippant, standing on the sable leg ; three trefoils arg. over each head. What are the authorities for this ? G. M. F.

ROYAL BURGHS. The sovereign in early times was proprietor of all the feus in a royal burgh. Does it follow from this that if the feus in a town belonged to the sovereign the town was a royal burgh ? The charter erecting Edinburgh into a royal burgh is not now in existence, but the dignity is ascribed to David I., because he called it " his burgh " in a charter. It, along with Stirling, Inverkeithing, Perth, and Aberdeen, all royal burghs, but some of them of un- known date, belonged to the Crown (see first charter in 'The Book of Scone') in the reign of Alexander I. Were they all royal burghs then ? JOHN MILNE, LL.D.