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6 mentions "the rocks on which men lose themselves" by gambling; how "wealth runs away with their hounds, and their fortunes fly away with their hawks." Then follow "the sights and shows of the Londoners," and the "May-games and recreations of the country-folk." More minutely still. Burton speaks of "rope dancers, cockfights," and other sports common both to town and country; still, though Burton is so exact as to specify all "winter recreations" separately, and mentions even "foot-balls and ballowns," saying "Let the common people play at ball and barley-brakes," there is in all this catalogue no mention whatever of Cricket.

III. As a third catalogue, we have the "Cotswold Games," but cricket is not among them. This was an annual celebration which one Captain Dover, by express permission and command of James I., held on the Cotswold Hills, in Gloucestershire.

IV. Fourthly: cricket is not mentioned in "The compleat Gamester," published by Charles Browne, in 1709.

V. "I have many editions of Chamberlayne's 'State of England,'" kindly writes Mr. T. B. Macaulay, "published between 1670 and 1700, and I observe he never mentions cricket among the national games, of which he gives a long list."

VI.The great John Locke wrote in 1679,