MANUSCRIPT, headed "On Cricket," signed and dated: "R.W.B. 1817", 4° (192 x 231mm), 26 pages with two integral blanks, containing reports of the Kent v England match at the Artillery Ground London in 1746 and the Hambledon Club v England match on the 18th June 1777 giving scores, with sections headed "Bowlers", "Strikers", "Fieldsmen", "Management of a Match". The manuscript also includes "An extract from a Poem written by Mr Love the comedian", an epitaph ("My Life is a Game at Cricket I stop'd, I pop'd, I block'd But Death has hit my wicket") and another four-line poem on cricket. In the text there are four diagrams, one in pencil and three in ink, showing the development of the bat and the bowling techniques of Harris and of Edward Stevens ("alias Lumpy"), also with two diagrams showing players' positions on the field (incomplete, 8 leaves lacking, partially disbound, one page holed, heavily dampstained throughout).