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 10 s. VIL JHXE s, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907.

CONTENTS. No. 180.

NOTES : The Earliest Cricket Report, 441 Dodsley's Famous Collection of Poetry, 442 Fielding- and Shake- speare, 444 Petrarch's Two Greyhounds "Crakowed" Shoes Signs of Old London Tooke and Halley Families, 445 " Breese " in ' Hudibras ' Kirkstead Chapel, Lines- William Seaton, 446 Lincolnshire Jest " Jommox " : " Wudget " : " Wompus," 447.

QUERIES : Joan d' Arc Pincushions Crooked Pins Ford the Fighting Preacher, 447 The Stones of London Authors of Quotations Wanted " Mareboake " : " Viere " Nasmyth's ' Scene in Hampshire ' Heralds : their Anointing" Keelhaul " : " Cobkey " " Morryoune," 448 Butchers exempted from Juries Sir Thomas Lucy Abbots of Crokesden " Lying Bishop " Baffo's Poems- Burton's ' Scented Garden ' Bishop John Best, of Car- lisle, 449 Isles Family Clement Croole William Culling Sir Francis Drake's Diary Lewis Onnsby, of Whetham's Regiment, 450.

REPLIES : Papal Styles: "Pater Patrum," 450 Sulphur Matches : Match-Maker's Song " Matches " in Congreve, 451 Flint and Steel, 452 Authors of Quotations Wanted Mirage Seine, River and Saint, 453 ' The Wrong Man ' ' A Short Explication ' of Musical Terms Sir Thomas Bloodworth, Lord Mayor 1665-6 Ordinaries of Newgate Teniers and Miniatures, 454 St. George : George as a Christian Name, 455 Worple Way " Bumble-puppy " Carlyle on painting Foam, 456 "Mother of dead dogs" Badges of the City Guilds Charters to City Guilds "The Old Highlander" Two Old Proverbs, 457 ' Rock of Ages ' : Gladstone's Latin Version Kirby Hall, North- ants, 458.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Mulso's Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne' 'Historical German Grammar' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

THE EARLIEST CRICKET REPORT. (See 9 S. iii. 208, 273 ; iv. 17.)

AT the second of these references MB. GEORGE MARSHALL gave an advertisement of a cricket match in 1705, and a summarized score of one in 1737, saying :

" The first detailed score of an eleven-a-side match seems to be that of Kent r. All England, played on the Artillery Grounds, Bunhill Fields, in 1746. It was the result of a challenge from Lord Sackville on the part of Kent, who eventually won by one wicket."

As the advertisement is not quite correctly ^quoted, I repeat it here as transcribed from The Post- Man and the Historical Account, ocfcc., " from Saturday, July 21, to Tuesday, July 24, 1705 ":

" This is to give notice, That a Match at Cricket is to be plaid between 11 Gentlemen of the West part of the County of Kent, against as many of 'Chatham, for 11 Guineas a Man, at Maulden in Kent, on the 7th of August next."

No record of the result is now to be found ; but the same, fortunately, is not to be said concerning what must have been a decidedly more interesting match of fourteen years

later. Concerning this, indeed, some par- ticulars are extant which furnish good read- ing to-day.

There appeared in the Weekly Journal, or Saturday's Post commonly known as " Mist's "for 16 May, 1719, the following paragraph :

" Last Week a Tryal was brought at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Justice Pratt, between two Companies of Cricket Players, the Men of Kent, Plaintiffs, and the Men of London, Defendants, for Sixty Pounds played for at Cricket, and after a long Hearing, and near 200J. expended in the Cause, my Lord, not understanding the Game, ordered them to play it over again ; and they met accordingly on Monday last in LambVConduit- Fields, but one of the Players being taken ill, it was deferred till another Opportunity."

And the same newspaper of 4 July gave the following report of the conclusion of the contest :

" The great Cricket-Match betwixt the Londoners and the Kentish Men, for which there has been a famous Trial at Law ; and by a Rule of Court was ordered to be play'd out, in which the Kentish Men

after they had got nine, and lost the Match. 'Tis reckoned the Law-Suit will amount to 200. The Match was play'd for a Guinea a Man on each Side."

The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench here referred to was, by the way, Sir John Pratt, and is not to be confounded with Sir Charles Pratt, subsequently Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and later Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ; and it is of some interest that the present holder of the position of the former, who anticipated the Heathen Chinee's historic remark con- cerning " a game he did not understand," is Lord Alverstone, who at this moment is President of the Surrey County Cricket Club.

Paradoxical as it may sound, the earliest account of a match I have yet been able to trace in a newspaper is of one that was never played, this being a laborious jest, given in The Weekly Journal : or, British Gazetteer of 21 July, 1722. It takes the form of the following letter to the editor :

SIR, Trahit sua quemqite volttjrfa*. Every Man you know has a Taste to a particular or general Recreation ; some love Hunting, others Hawking, others Shooting or Fishing, some love Chucking, others Cricket, &c., on which last Subject I desire you '11 print the following Account, viz.

On Friday the 6th Instant, at a Meeting (for that Purpose) at the three Tuns and Rummer, in Grace- church- Street, a Match at Cricket was made be- tween the little Parish of Dartford in Kent, and the Gentlemen known by the Name of the London Club, who are compos'd of several Parishes in London, Southwark, &c., and being compos'd of several Parishes, generously allow'd them of the