Other Events
Fri 10 May. The Ipswich Journal reported that: All lovers of Cricket are hereby desired to meet at Gray’s Coffee House (in Norwich) on Friday 17th inst. at 6 pm to settle rules for that manly diversion. A version of the Laws of Cricket having been published the previous year, was this a meeting of dissenters, perhaps?
Mon 24 June. A game between two threes in the Artillery Ground. The teams were William Hodsoll (Dartford), Val Romney (Sevenoaks) and Richard Newland (Slindon) versus Robert Colchin (Bromley), J Harris (Addington) and John Bryant (Bromley). It is not known which of John or Joseph Harris was playing. Hodsoll’s side won by 7 runs.
Fri 26 July. A ladies match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford, between XI Maids of Bramley and XI Maids of Hambledon. They all dressed in white but the Hambledon lasses wore red ribbons on their heads and the Bramley lasses wore blue. This is Hambledon near Godalming in Surrey, incidentally. Bramley is another Surrey village, also close to Godalming. A further report says the ladies played a return match at Hambledon, Surrey on Tues 6 August.
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