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t > the ground, received a limpid stream, frothing anc i >aming on reaching its destination into a roaring i- /llabub,"

( vddently a waiter who would have regardec vith contempt a modern (air-valve) self 1 ouring or motionless teapot. K. B.

Upton.

PLAYING CARDS ON A CHURCH TOWER (i th S. iii. 90, 214). I need not tell MR ^.NDREWS, for he knows already, that there was formerly a steeple on the church oi Ashton-under-Lyne which owed a foot of its height to the five of spades. The tale is tolc in ' Ecclesiastical Curiosities ' (a book editec by MR. ANDREWS) in a chapter written by Mr. John Eglington Bailey, F.S.A., pp. 113-18, and some of your readers may be glad to hear it. Divested of trimmings, it is as follows. During the building of Ashton steeple, in 1413, a butcher named Alexander Hyll, playing at noddy, a kind of cribbage, swore that if the dealer turned up the five of spades he would pay for a foot of the steeple. Up came the card ; Hyll performed his oath, and had his name carved on the stone, a cleaver being put before Alexander and the fateful card before Hyll. Dpdswprth, the Yorkshire antiquary, saw this inscription in 1639, and copied it, although it was 110 longer in the steeple, a new one having been raised in 1516.

ST. SWITHIN.

CRICKET (9 th S. iii. 208). The first detailed that of Kent v. All England, played on the Artillery Grounds, Bunhill Fields, in 1746. It was the result of a challenge from Lord iSackville on the part of Kent, who eventually won by one wicket. The only cricketer of fame who played in this match was Kips, a famous wicket-keeper, who made the highest score in each innings for Kent (12 and 10). The details will be found in Pycroft's ' Cricket Field,' in Box, and in other later works. In Mr. W. W. Read's 'Annals of Cricket,' how- ver. there are newspaper references to latches between elevens of still earlier date. Thus, in the Postman for 24 July, 1705 :
 * score of an eleven-a-side match seems to be

" This is to give notice that a match at Cricket vill be plaid between eleven gentlemen of the West art of Kent and those of Chatham for 11 guineas a lan, the game to take place at Maulden, in Kent, n August 7th next."

laulden was probably Town Mailing. There re other references and accounts in which tie number of players is unrnentioned, though

was doubtless eleven. Here is a notable latch, from the London Post for 16 July, 737:

"On Thursday morning, July 13th, His Royal ignness the Prince of Wales and ten gentlemen

play'd a match at Cricket at Kew for a considerable sum, against His Grace the Duke of Marlborough and ten other noblemen and gentlemen, which was won by His Royal Highness."

In the June of this year the Prince of Wales captained an eleven of London and Surrey in a great match with Kent, under Lord Sack- ville. The London jEvening Post for Satur- day, 11 June, 1737, announced that it would be played on Kennington Common, " The wickets to be fixed exactly at eleven and a large ring to be roped round." The result was reported on 16 June. The metropolitans had a very bad time, scoring only 31 and 40, against 99 and "upwards of 70, and then [Kent] knocked up their wickets." Single wicket was not so general as it subsequently became under Lord F. Beauclerk, Mr. Osbalde- ston, Mr. Ward, Fuller Pilch, and other heroes. GEORGE MARSHALL.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME or LAVINIA (9 th S. iii. 148). This name, though I believe it was at one time not uncommon in Italy, is rarely found in this country. It occurs, however, in Davis's * Hebrew Deeds,' p. 180. The date when the lady bearing it flourished I do not know, as the reference I have does not give it. My grandfather, Thomas Peacock, of Northorpe Hall, near this place, had a daughter baptized Lavinia on 11 January, 1801. ^She was buried on the 19th of the following month. I do not think Lavinia was a family name, but of this I am not quite certain. There is a lady named Lavinia mentioned in the '^Eneid,' who became the wife of ^Eneas, from whom the city of Lavin- ium, which he founded, is said to have taken its name. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

There are two well-known owners of this name : Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, in Virgil ; Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andro- nicus, in Shakespere. ED. MARSHALL.

This classical name was borne by the daughter of King Latinus, who became the wife of the pious JEneas, see '^Eneid,' vi. and vii. ; Ovid, 'Metam.,' xiv. 507, &c. The name is anything but uncommon, but the exact origin I do not know, and have not at hand }he earlier series of ' N. & Q.,' for the name is treated of in 5 th S. ii. 512. JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

PRIME MINISTER (8 th S. x. 357, 438 ; xi. 69, 151, 510 ; xii. 55, 431 ; 9 th S. ii. 99 ; iii. 15, 52, 109). The statement (ante, p. 109) that 'Prime Minister" was "earliest applied to Harley" is incorrect. The English trans-