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Scores of matches compiled by F S Ashley-Cooper and lists of matches played between 1804 and 1809. Includes scores from the following matches and sources they came from (Scores and Biographies, Sporting Magazine): 1804 Sevenoaks vs. Homerton 1805 Married vs. Single (Homerton), Mr Aislabie's 5 vs. Sir Henry Martin's 5, Portsmouth vs. Portsea, East Kent vs. West Kent, Homerton vs. Richmond, Canterbury vs. Wingham, West Kent vs. East Kent, Homerton vs. Enfield, 9 Old Women vs. 9 Young Ones, Rickmansworth vs. Homerton, Colchester vs. Witham, Blackheath vs. Royal Artillery, Rochester vs. East Kent, The Guards vs. East Kent Yeoman, Blickling vs. Norwich, Rickmansworth vs. Homerton, Waltham Abbey vs. Homerton, Artillery vs. Light Infantry, Kent vs. Bexley, Hallam vs. Stannington The folder contains poetry verses on the Eton vs. Harrow match at Lord's that took place in August 1805 (the first Eton vs. Harrow match), reports on a meeting of Hampshire Cricket Club members who elected George Hollis as Secretary. 1806 Bullington vs. Oxford City, Norwich vs. 7th Light Dragoons, Eton College vs. Officers of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) and The King's Own Stafford Militia, Homerton vs. Enfield, West Kent vs. East Kent, Needham Market vs. Stowmarket, Cobham vs. Kingston, Homerton vs. Waltham and Enfield, Homerton vs. Rickmansworth, 7th Dragoons vs. Herts Militia, East Kent vs. West Kent, Waltham and Woodford vs. Homerton, 7th Dragoons vs. 11th Dragoons (Suffolk), Brighton vs. Broadwater, 22 of Stockbury vs. 11 of Borden, Homerton vs. Rickmansworth, Bromley vs. The Middlesex Clubs (Lord's), Essex vs. Homerton, Maidstone vs. 11 of the Russell and Taylor families, Southampton vs. Twyford, Otterbourne and Stoke, Beaulieu vs. Lyndhurst, Titchfield vs. Southampton, Waltham and Woodford vs. Homerton, Portsmouth vs. Gosport 1807 Yalding vs. An Eleven, Rickmansworth New Club vs. Rickmansworth Old Club, Mr Marshall vs. Mr Fagg (single wicket match, Eastry), Homerton vs. Enfield, Mr Aislabie's 4 vs. Sir Henry Martin's 4 (single wicket match, Homerton), Drayton vs. Dorchester, Bearsted vs. Lenham, Shoemakers vs. Carpenters, Homerton vs. Marylebone Thursday, 2 of Thetford vs. 2 of Newmarket (single wicket match, Thetford), Rickmansworth vs. MCC, Thetford vs. Bury, Bishop Stortford vs. Bishops Walden, Streatham vs. Homerton, Portsmouth vs. 11 Officers of the Nottingham Militia, Mr J Thompson's XI vs. Hon G Coventry's XI, Homerton vs. Streatham, 12 of Borden vs. 22 of Sittingbourne and Milton, Enfield vs. Homerton, Yalding vs. 22 of Mereworth, Winchester vs. Southampton, Homerton vs. Richmond, North of Deal vs. South of Deal, Hambledon vs. Winchester, Essex vs. Homerton, Mr D Bowd of Igborough vs. Mr John Spinks of Hilborough (single wicket match, Norfolk), XI of the Right Wing of the North Aylesford Legion vs. 11 of the Left Wing, Denton vs. Wootton, Middlesex vs. Essex (Woodford Wells) 1808 Homerton vs. Enfield, Horsham vs. Leicester Militia, Swaffham vs. Shipdham, Streatham vs. Berkeley, Biddenden vs. Ashford, Essex vs. Homerton, Montpelier Tuesday vs. Marylebone Friday, Brompton vs. Borden, 11 of Dover vs. 11 of Dover, Ramsgate vs. Deal, Streatham vs. Homerton, Maiden Sole vs. Dover, Appledore vs. Old Romney, A Ramsgate Club, The President's XI vs. A Ramsgate Club, The Deputy President's XI, Ramsgate vs. Deal, Chiswick vs. Hammersmith, County of Rutland vs. A Military XI from Norman Cross, Deal vs. Dover, Gosport and Alverstoke Rifle Corps vs. Portsmouth Rifle Corps, Thetford vs. Newmarket, Oakham vs. Burley, Oakham Married vs. Oakham Single 1809 Bullingdon vs. Oxford Sociable Club, Margate vs. Ramsgate, Eton College vs. Rickmansworth, Faversham vs. Sittingbourne, Portsmouth vs. Sussex Militia, Sandwich vs. Ramsgate, Herne vs. Canterbury, Horsham vs. Ockley, Eton College vs. Berkeley, Dover vs. Eastry, Alresford vs. Easton, Tenterden vs. Beckley and Northiam, Portsmouth vs. Hambledon, Dover vs. Eastry, Charing vs. Faversham, Meriden vs. All England, Tenterden vs. Biddenden, Wetherby vs. Gentlemen of All Yorkshire, Gentlemen of Rutland vs. Gentlemen of Mr Annersley's Party of Northamptonshire Cricket Players, Shipdham vs. Dawnham, Alresford vs. Winchester, Fareham vs. Porchester, 11 of Sussex vs. 11 of Kent. The file contains a report on a political cricket match and a report that Thomas Lord had acquired a piece of ground at the top of Lisson Grove [to be used as the second Lord's Ground], report on a fatal accident where a person drowned during a cricket match at Leeds Park in Kent.

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