The St. James's Chronicle records that: "A great match of cricket to be played between Kent and Essex, the Parties assembled on both Sides. When they were met, a Man appearing among the former, who should not have been there, the Essex men refused playing, on which a very bloody battle ensued, and the Kentish men being likely to be worsted, one of them ran into the Guard-House, and getting a Gun from one of the Invalids, fired and killed one of the opposite party." [not recorded in Waghorn The Dawn of Cricket]