The Old Whig, London: J. Roberts & H. Whitridge, Thursday July 31 1735, folio news sheet (15 x 9½in.), containing a 32-line report on the match between Kent and London at Bromley Common (small stain to margins, fold worn and reinforced). [cf. Waghorn Cricket Scores p. 11] Together with The Daily Gazetteer, London: J. Griffith, Saturday July 26 1746, folio sheet (16 x 9¼in.), with a 5-line notice of two forthcoming matches, Kent v. The World, on Bromley Common and the Artillery Ground (light browning, 2 worm holes); and The World, London: R. Bostock, June 11 1791, folio sheet (18¼ x 12¼), with a 22-line notice of a forthcoming match between Mary-le-Bone Club and Essex at Lord's Cricket Ground (small paper flaw, fold worn and reinforced). (3)

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The Old Whig, London: J. Roberts & H. Whitridge, Thursday July 31 1735, folio news sheet (15 x 9½in.), containing a 32-line report on the match between Kent and London at Bromley Common (small stain to margins, fold worn and reinforced). [cf. Waghorn Cricket Scores p. 11] Together with The Daily Gazetteer, London: J. Griffith, Saturday July 26 1746, folio sheet (16 x 9¼in.), with a 5-line notice of two forthcoming matches, Kent v. The World, on Bromley Common and the Artillery Ground (light browning, 2 worm holes); and The World, London: R. Bostock, June 11 1791, folio sheet (18¼ x 12¼), with a 22-line notice of a forthcoming match between Mary-le-Bone Club and Essex at Lord's Cricket Ground (small paper flaw, fold worn and reinforced). (3)

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The Old Whig describes: "a great Match at Cricket ... play'd on Bromley Common in Kent for 1000 l. between his Highness the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Middlesex, the Londoners playing for the former, and the Kentish men for the latter ... the London Gamesters at their second innings made but 32, leading their Adversaries only Eight, which they got and beat them without one Hand being out the second time."

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