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[GEORGE SWINNOCK]
The Life and Death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, Minister of Maidstone in the County of Kent, M.A.
[London]: printed in the year 1672. 8vo. (title browned at margins, some light marginal worming), contemporary sheep (rebacked). Provenance: Robert, Marquis of Crewe (bookplate; sold Christie's, South Kensington, 28 November 1997, lot 167).
A SCARCE WORK PRIZED FOR ITS EARLY REFERENCE TO CRICKET. "Maidstone was formerly a very profane town," writes Wilson's biographer, "insomuch that I have seen morrice dancing, cudgel playing, stool-ball, crickets, and many other sports openly and publickly on the Lords Day" (p. 40). Wilson came to Maidstone in about 1640, and since Swinnock goes on to say, "The former vain sinful customes of sports were reformed before his coming," this establishes that in Kent at least adults were playing cricket in the reign of Charles I. Wing S6277; Cricket: National Book League Exhibition 2; Padwick 849.
The Life and Death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, Minister of Maidstone in the County of Kent, M.A.
[London]: printed in the year 1672. 8vo. (title browned at margins, some light marginal worming), contemporary sheep (rebacked). Provenance: Robert, Marquis of Crewe (bookplate; sold Christie's, South Kensington, 28 November 1997, lot 167).
A SCARCE WORK PRIZED FOR ITS EARLY REFERENCE TO CRICKET. "Maidstone was formerly a very profane town," writes Wilson's biographer, "insomuch that I have seen morrice dancing, cudgel playing, stool-ball, crickets, and many other sports openly and publickly on the Lords Day" (p. 40). Wilson came to Maidstone in about 1640, and since Swinnock goes on to say, "The former vain sinful customes of sports were reformed before his coming," this establishes that in Kent at least adults were playing cricket in the reign of Charles I. Wing S6277; Cricket: National Book League Exhibition 2; Padwick 849.
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