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 358 NOTES AND QUERIES. ri2s.ix.ocT.29.i92i. EARLY HISTORY OF CRICKET (12 S. ix. 311). In 1811 a print was published showing ' The Grand Female Cricket Match between the Hampshire and Surrey Lasses for 500 Guineas, and played at Newington Green, near Ball's Pond, Middlesex, October 2, 1811, when the Hampshire won by fourteen notches.' Twenty years ago I had a copy of this, and sent it to The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, in which paper a repro- duction appeared on July 13, 1901. I gave the print soon afterwards to some county cricket club, I think either Surrey or Hampshire. HERBERT SOTJTHAM. P.R.S.V.R., &c., PERSEVERE, &c. (11 S. xi. 318, 435, 477 ; 12 S. i. 96). In Edward Baines's 'History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster,' 1824-5, vol. ii., p. 30, after a few lines about a milliarium found in the channel of the Artie -beck rivulet is the following : A relic belonging also to Roman times was found in the bed of the Fisher-beck inscribed with the following consonants : P.R.S.V.R.Y.P.R.F.C.T.M.N. V.R.K.P.T.H.S.P.R.C.P.T.S.T.N. which have been ingeniously supplied with vowels so as to make this monitory couplet : Persevere ye perfect men, Ever keep these precepts ten.' It is not unlikely that the stops are printer's errors. It is not explained why the stone was believed to belong to Roman times. The previous notes have assigned this puzzle inscription to a house at Hangle- ton, near Brighton ; a Welsh church ; Penshaw Church, near Durham ; Beeston Regis Church, near Cromer. Probably, like many epitaphs in verse, it was used in many places. Fisher-beck is, I think, a stream which falls into the Lune at or near Caton. ROBERT PIERPOINT. WILSON : PRATT : SYMES : LE HTJNTE (12 S. ix. 310). Burke's ' Landed Gentry' for 1846, sub. tit. ' Symes of Ballybeg,' states that Jeremiah Symes of Glascarry, Co. Wexford, married Barbara Payne, sister of the private secretary to King James II., and had a fourth son, John Symes of Hillbrook, Co. Wicklow, who married Mary, second daughter of Richard Sandam of Rusha- more, Co. Louth, and had numerous de- scendants. Abraham Symes, son of John, Generosus, born in Co. Wicklow, entered T.C.D. in 1733, aged 18, and was B.A. 1738, M.A. 1742, and D.D. 1762. This is almost certainly the son of John and Barbara, and he is very likely the person required, as no other Abraham of the period graduated at Trinity. There is a manuscript pedigree in existence of the descendants of John Symes and Barbara Sandam. H. B. SWANZY. Vicarage, Newry. If the Sir John Pratt referred to is the Lord Chief Justice (created 1714), I might be able to give some assistance. EDITH PRATT. CULCHETH HALL (12 S. ix. 291, 336). There appears no sufficient foundation for the statement that this old house was occupied by a family bearing its name " until the middle of the eighteenth century.'* The Hearth Tax Rolls of 1673 and the Associa- tion Oath Rolls of 1696 make no mention of the family as of Culcheth, though the surname appears in other places, viz., William and Ralph Culcheth of Burscough (unable to write) and another, John Cul- cheth, who could sign his name ; Edward Culcheth and James (x) in Bickerstaffe and Skelmersdale ; Thomas in Ince ; Ralph in Wigan. It would appear that John Rushley, Esq., and John Holroft, Esq., were the only residents of Culcheth above the rank of yeoman in the Hearth Tax Roll. WALLACE GANDY. OLIVER CROMWELL ON HUNGARY (12 S. ix. 310). It all depends on the point of view and it must be kept in mind that there is more than one opinion as to what constitutes " Christianity." Carlyle gives the speech made by Cromwell to the " Lords and Gentlemen of the Two Houses of Parliament" on Jan. 25, 1658. In this he points out that the King of Hungary is aiming " to make himself Emperor of Germany," and that he will then follow the policy of his father, "whose principles, interest, and personal conscience guided him to exile all the Protestants out of his own patrimonial country." He then goes on to say that " the Protestants are tossed out of Poland into the Empire ; and out thence whither they can fly to get their bread." See Oliver Cromwell's ' Letters and Speeches,' vol. v., p. 106 (London : Chapman and Hall, 1872). This is the only reference to the King of Hungary I can find in Cromwell's speeches. T. F. D.