The Old Whig: or, the Consistent Protestant, London: J. Roberts, Thursday June 24, 1737, number 120, 2°, 4-pages, giving a 16-line account (on page 2) of "...the great Cricket Match between his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for Surry and London; and the Lord John Sackville ... play'd on Kennington Common," with a further mention of "some Cricket Players" who went to the assistance of "a woman in Lamb's Conduit Fields" arrested "for retailing Geneva" (page 3).

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The Old Whig: or, the Consistent Protestant, London: J. Roberts, Thursday June 24, 1737, number 120, 2°, 4-pages, giving a 16-line account (on page 2) of "...the great Cricket Match between his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for Surry and London; and the Lord John Sackville ... play'd on Kennington Common," with a further mention of "some Cricket Players" who went to the assistance of "a woman in Lamb's Conduit Fields" arrested "for retailing Geneva" (page 3).

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