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book in 1597 (the date being in the title-page) ; 

 but he is incorrect in saying " seventh and eighth 

 books 1648, 4to.," — besides leaving the sixth 

 book quite unaccounted for. Lethkediensis. 



[When Mr. Keble published the first edition of Hooker's 

 Works, he had not met with the edition of the Sixth and 

 Eighth Books published in 1648, so that it would seem 

 to be rather scarce. A copy was sold bv Sotheby and 

 Wilkinson on June 5, 1857 (see " N". & Q.," 2'"i S. iii. 

 478.). The particulars relating to the manuscripts of the 

 judicious Hooker — their fate and their perils — would be 

 a curious but painful chapter in our literary history. It 

 was on Dec. 28, 1640, when Archbishop Laud was com- 

 mitted to the Tower, that his library, containing Hooker's 

 manuscripts, was made over to the custody of Prynne, his 

 inveterate opponent. From him it passed to the notori- 

 ous Hugh Peters, by a vote of the Commons, June 27, 

 1644. About four years afterwards, and on the verj' eve 

 of the martyrdom of Charles I., the Sixth and Eighth 

 Eooks of Tlie Ecclesiastical Polity were given to the world, 

 and announced as " a work long expected, and now pub- 

 lished according to the most authentique copies." We 

 are told of six transcripts with which the edition was 

 collated. It is perplexing to understand when these 

 copies got forth, and how they were all alike deficient in 

 the Seventh Book, which the setter forth of this edition 

 declares to be irrecoverable. No trace of the lost Book 

 appears until 1662, when Dr. Gauden, recently promoted 

 to the See of Worcester, set forth a new edition of The 

 Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, and augmenting it by 

 this Seventh Book. He distinctly saj'S, " The Seventh 

 Book, by comparing the writing of it with other indis- 

 putable papers, or known manuscripts of Mr. Hooker's, 

 is undoubtedly his own hand throughout." It is grati- 

 fying to find that the recent learned and able Editor of 

 Hooker's Works favours its genuineness by internal evi- 

 dence, notwithstanding it bears marks of hasty writing. 

 See Mr. Keble's valuable Preface to the Third Edition, 

 1845, and an interesting article on Hooker in D'Israeli's 

 Amenities, ii. 335.] 



Cricket. — When, and where, originated the 

 game of cricket, and what is the etymology of the 

 term ? The game, it is said, is almost, if not 

 quite, unknown on the Continent. Perhaps the 

 recent visit of the Due de MalakofF to Lord's 

 Ground, and the presentation there made to him 

 of a complete set of bats, balls, &c. may eventuate 

 in his countrymen borrowing this sport, as well as 

 horse-racing, from us. Lefebybe. 



[The game of cricket, which is peculiar to our island, 

 has been derived from the Saxon Cricce 'or Creag, a 

 crook'd stick or club. Like other British sports, it has 

 undergone considerable modifications, more particularlj' 

 in the past fifty j'ears, and hence the difiiculty of deter- 

 miuing the precise date of its origin. Doubtless cricket 

 was played in some rude form as early as any game of 

 ball, or even before balls were made, with ca<» or bits of 

 ■tick. ( Vide Dr. Jamieson's Etyuiological Diet., art. Cat 

 and Dog, pp. 76. 83.) Strutt, in his Sports and Pastimes, 

 could discover no earlier notice of it than that by D'Urfey, 

 in his Cambro-British doggerel (1719) : — 



" Ilur was the prettiest fellow 

 At foot-ball or at cricket, 

 At hnnting-cha.se, or prison-base, 

 Cot'.s plut, how hur could nick it ! " 



Milton's nephew, however, Edw. Phillips, directly refers 

 to the cricket-ball in his Mysteries of Love und Eloquence 



(1685), which is probably the first mention of the word 

 in its modern English form by anj' author in present use. 

 Strange to say the game is omitted (as known, at least, 

 by its present name) both in the Schedule of Sports^ 

 drawn up by command of James I, and in the recapitu- 

 lation of popular amusements in 'Qwxion's Anatomy of Mc' 

 lancholy. The poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries are likewise mute on it. But in the Gent. Mag. 

 for March, 1788, a correspondent writes that, "in the 

 Wardrobe Account of the 28th year Edw. I. (1300), pub- 

 lished by the Society of Antiquaries, among the entries 

 of money issued for the use of his son Prince Edward in 

 plaj-ing at different games, is the following item : — ' Do- 

 mino Johanni de Leek, Capellano domini Edwardi fil' ad 

 creag' et alios ludos per vices, per manus proprias apud 

 Westm. 10 die Aprilis. 100 S.' " And the same writer adds 

 in a note, "Mr. Barrington has suggested that cricket is 

 alluded to under two Latin words, denoting the ball and 

 bat sport, in a proclamation of Edw. III. (1363) ; as also 

 in a statute, 17 Ed. IV. (1477), by the pastime of handyn 

 and handout {Archceol. vii. pp. 60. 378.)." Consult also 

 Blaine's Encyclopedia of Rural Sports, Lond. 1852, and 

 the Cricketer's Mamtal, by "Bat," Lond. 1851.] 



Hachiey Worthies. — Can any of your readers 

 refer me to any notices of Sir Thomas Player and 

 Sir Stephen White, both of Hackney ? Their 

 arms are given iu Gwillim's Heraldry, at pp. 113. 

 133. A. A. 



[Sir Thomas Player, Chamberlain of the City of Lon- 

 don, was one of the City members both in the Westminster 

 and Oxford parliaments, 1678 — 79. Pepys, in his Diary, 

 has the following entry under Mar. 14, 1665-6 : " Thence . 

 to Guildhall, in our way taking in Dr. Wilkins, and there 

 my Lord [Brouncker] and I had full and large discourse 

 with Sir Thomas Plaj'er, the Chamberlain of the City, a 

 man I have much heard of, about the credit of our tallj'S, 

 which are lodged there for security to such as should 

 lend monej' thereon to the use of the navy." On May 8, 

 1683, Sir Thomas Player was fined 500 marks for being 

 concerned in a riot at Guildhall at the election of sheriffs 

 on Midsummer-day, 1682. (Eehard, Hist, of England, 

 iii. 67.1.) He is accused of libertinism in a pasquinade 

 entitled The Last Will and Testament of the Charter of 

 London, 1683, in which occurs the following bequest to 

 him : " To Sir Thomas Player I leave all the manor of 

 Moorfields, with all the wenches and bawdy-houses there- 

 unto belonging, with Mrs. Cresswell's [who kept a noted 

 bagnio] for his immediate inheritance, to enjoy and oc- 

 cupy all, from the bawd to the whore down^vard, at nine- 

 teen shillings in the pound cheaper than any other 

 person, because he may not exhaust the chamber by 

 paying old arrears, nor embezzle the stock by run- 

 ning into new scores." (Somers's Tracts, by Scott, viii. 

 392.) Dryden has likewise gibbeted him in Absalom and 

 Achitophel : — 



" Next him, let railing Rabshakeh have place, 

 So full of zeal he has no need of grace ; 

 A saint that can both flesh and spirit use, 

 Alike haunt conventicles and the stews." 



Sir Thomas Player was buried at Hackney, Dec. 9, 1672. 

 (Lysons' Environs, ii. 497.) The onl3' notices of Sir 

 Stephen White that we can discover relate to his pious 

 gifts to the parishes of Hacknej', Bocking, and Braintree. 

 See Robinson's History of Hackney, ii. 375., and Report of 

 Charity Commissioners, xxxii. pt. i. 774. 780. Sir Stephen 

 White was buried at Hackney, Dec. 26, 1678.] 



Pitfield of Hoxton. — The usual tradition in 

 Shoreditch ?s, that the person who bore this name, 



