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houses in White Horse Lane (or Street, as I believe it is now called). They were some little distance south of the churchyard, on the east side of the road. I intended in- vestigating them, but left without doing so. Is my theory that these occupy part of the site of the cemetery mentioned by MR. MAC- MICHAEL correct 1 JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Both ME. HAKLAND-OXLEY and MR. MAC- MICHAEL omit to mention the little, sadly overcrowded burial - ground situated in Church Row (now Street), Islington, N., which was finally closed for burial pur- poses about this date. In 1817 a Noncon- formist minister named Jones purchased the copyhold of No. 5, Church Row, and con- verted the grounds in the immediate rear into what was known as "Jones's Burial- Ground " and " The New Bunhill Fields." I remember its condition in the fifties as most scandalous skulls, thigh-bones, and fibulae were kicking about above ground by the score and much indignant correspondence took place relative to this condition of things in the Islington Gazette (particularly about the close of 1856), the writers urging that the then owner was interdicted by law from continuing to use the chock -ful enclosure for further burials. It was finally let for build- ing purposes, and the major part of the present generation who reside thereabouts are possibly unaware a graveyard ever existed there in modern times at all.

I know a similar instance of total oblitera- tion at Carrara. Many readers will probably remember the cemetery there, situated four or five minutes' walk from the present rail- way station. It has been entirely wiped off the face of the earth, and a theatre and other buildings now occupy the spot where not so very long ago its inhabitants were wont to kneel by the gravesides of their departed loved ones. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

The chief credit for putting a stop to Intra-mural burials may, I think, be assigned to the Builder, under the editorship of George Godwin, F.R.S., F.S.A, and it was about the year with which MR. HOPKINS'S inquiry is concerned, 1860, that the cam- paign against intra - mural burial was opened. The Builder spoke out on the subject in very decided language an out- spokenness which led to the abolition of the disgraceful overcrowding and appallingly in- sanitary conditions which then existed. The burial-ground attached to the Tottenham Court Road Chapel was still, in 1860, being

overcrowded apparently (see the Builder for 30 April, 1864), and should be included in the list. Much further information will be found with regard to the London cemeteries in the Builder from 1850 to 1870.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

CRICKET (10 th S. ii. 145). The advertise- ment to which I referred in my communica- tion at the above reference is contained in the Post-Man of Tuesday, 24 July, 1705, as follows :

is to be plaid [sa'c=played] between 11 Gentlemen of the West part of the County of Kent against as many of Chatham, for 11 Guineas a Man, at Maul- den in Kent, on the 7th of August next."
 * ' This is to give notice, That a Match at Cricket

The earliest newspaper paragraph relating to a cricket match that my researches have brought forth is, however, in the Post Boy of Saturday, 30 March, 1700, viz. :

" These are to inform Gentlemen, or others, who delight in Cricket-playing, That a Match at Cricket of 10 [sic] Gentlemen on each side, will be Play'd on Clapham-Common [co. Surrey] near Fox-Hall (WVauxhall ?] on Easter-Monday next [1 April], for 10. a Head each Game (five being design'd) and 2W. the Odd one : And after that Diversion is ended, any Maid may Run for a fine Flanders Lac'd Smock, Value 4^. they being to start exactly at Three from the Watch-House. There will be likewise an Enter- tainment Gratis, as soon as the abovementioned Recreations are ended."

W. I. R. V.

An account of a journey made in Kent by Lord Harley, afterwards the second Earl of Oxford, is printed in the Hist. MSS. Com., Portland MSS., Sixth Report (1901), p. 76 et seq. It contains an early and interesting notice of the game of cricket. The party left London on 26 August, 1723 :

" In the afternoon we came hence [from Dart- ford] directly for Rochester, and upon the heath as we came out of the town the men of Tunbridge and the Dartford men were warmly engaged at the sport of cricket, which of all the people of England the Kentish folk are most renowned for, and of all the Kentish men the men of Dartford lay claim to the greatest excellence."

W. P. COURTNEY.

VACCINATION AND INOCULATION (10 th S. ii. 27, 132, 216, 313). The method of inoculation introduced by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, though universally practised by the medical profession of that time, is now declared by law to be a penal offence.

Nevertheless, a tablet containing the fol- lowing remarkable inscription adorns Lich- field Cathedral, with, of course, the impri- matur of that grave and learned body the Dean and Chapter :

"Sacred to the memory of the R* Hon blc Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Who happily intro-