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Scrapbook of newspapers which include reports on cricket matches and references to cricket: This Sporting Life, 9 November 1859: reports and scores from the All England tour of United States and Canada in 1859 The Kentish Gazette, 16-19 June 1773: report on the match between Wingham Club and Swinfield The Kentish Gazette, 23-26 June 1773: report on the match between Surrey and Kent The Kentish Gazette, 17-21 July 1773: report on the match between Surrey and Kent The Kentish Gazette, 21-24 July 1773: report on the match between Surrey and Kent The Kentish Gazette, 24-28 July 1773: reports on the matches between Wingham Club and Littlebourn, and The Marsh Club vs. Sussex Club The Kentish Gazette, 31 July-4 August 1773: report on the match between Wingham Club and Hythe The Kentish Gazette, 8-11 September 1773: advertisement for the ballad 'Surry Triumphant: or the Kentish-Men's Defeat' The Kentish Gazette, 18-22 September 1773: report on the match between Surrey and Hampshire The Kentish Gazette, 12-15 July 1775: report on the match between Surrey and Hampshire The Kentish Gazette, 10-13 July 1776: advertisement for the Hampshire vs. All England match on 15 July 1776, report on the match between England and Hampshire on 4 July 1776 The Kentish Gazette, 17-20 July 1776: report on the match between Hampshire and England The London Chronicle, 22-24 June 1762: report on the match between Gentlemen of Guildford and Gentlemen of Chertsey The London Chronicle, 24 August 1769: report on the match between 11 of London and 11 of Kent Lloyds Evening Post, 23-25 September 1771: report on the match between Hambleton Club and Gentlemen of Chertsey The Statesman, 13 May 1814: report on an accident at Lord's Ground public house: 'The landlady of the house had occasion to use a small quantity of gun powder, and whilst in the act of taking the same from a paper, containing a pound weight, a spark from the fire caught it, and it went off with a great explosion. The landlady, her sister, and two little girls who were in the room were seriously burnt. The two former are in a dangerous way. The explosion broke every pane of glass in the room and set it on fire.' The News and Sunday Herald, 20 September 1835: report on the match between 11 married and 11 single at Parson's Green in Walham, for 10d and a hot supper The St. James's Chronicle or British Evening Post, 9-11 August 1796: reports on matches between 11 with one arm and 11 with one leg at Greenwich Hospital, and 11 of Portsmouth vs. 11 of Southampton The London Evening Post, 12-15 September 1778: report on the match between Chertsey vs. All England The London Evening Post, 5-7 August 1729: report on the match between Londoners and Dartford Men The London Evening Post, 11-14 September 1731: report on the match between Kingston Men and County of Surrey The London Evening Post, 22-24 July 1736: advertisement for a match between Gentlemen of London and Gentlemen of Chertsey The London Evening Post, 31 August-2 September 1736: report on a single wicket match between three Countrymen and three Londoners The London Evening Post, 18-21 September 1736: report on the match between Gentlemen of Kent and Gentlemen of Surrey The Norwich Mercury, 12 August 1826: report on the match between Nottingham and Sheffield and Leicester The Leeds Mercury, 22 June 1793: report on the match between married females and maidens at Bury Common in Sussex The Grub-Street Journal, 10 July 1735: advertisement of a match between 8 of London and 3 of Middlesex playing for the Prince and Earl of Middlesex against 11 chosen by the Earl of Kent The Grub-Street Journal, 31 July 1735: report on the match between 9 of Surrey and 9 of Middlesex The Westminster Journal or New Weekly Miscellany, 16 July 1743: report on the match between Newland of Slendon in Sussex, Sawyer of Richmond, and Bryant of London against Hodswell of Dartford, Romley of Sevenoaks and Cutbush of Maidstone The Westminster Journal or New Weekly Miscellany, 13 August 1743: report on the match between the Duke of Bedford's Wooburn Club and the Londoners The Westminster Journal or New Weekly Miscellany, 24 September 1743: report on the match between 11 Gentlemen of London and 11 Gentlemen of Middlesex, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 25 July 1781: report on the match between Kent and All England The Courier, 29 July 1825: report on the fire at Lord's Cricket Ground Pavilion The Salisbury Journal, 6 July 1730: report on the match between 3 of Sussex and 3 of Surrey The Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, 12 May 1789: advertisement for a match between Sir Horace Mann's XI and S Amhurst and the County at Large.

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