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best slow bowler of that day), since then Brown, 

 the fastest bowler then known, Beagley, Carter, 

 &c , some of whom were paid ten shillings per 

 day by the club as bowlers."* 

 Patrons of Mr. Ridge, Mr. Dehany, and the 

 the game. ^ ey% Q m Powlett, were also players 

 and patrons of the game ; the two latter were 

 members of the committee of the noblemen 

 and gentlemen, who met at the Star and 

 Garter, in Pali-Mall, in February, 1774, to 

 settle the laws of cricket. The Duke of 

 Dorset, the Earl of Tanker ville, the Earl of 

 Winchelsea, and Lord Frederick Beauclerk, 

 frequently played with the Hambledon Club, 

 and Sir Horace Mann was very active in getting 

 up an eleven to play against them. As early 

 as 1787, Alresford had an excellent eleven, and 

 a match on Tichborne Down against Odiham 

 with Beldham is reported. 



In those days matches were not played en- 

 tirely for the love and honour of the game, as 

 now, but for large sums of money. The match 

 in July, 1778, of the Hambledon Club against 

 All England, was for one thousand guineas. 

 And not for money only was the game played, 

 as I find in the Hants Chronicle that a match 

 was played on July 14th, 1783, for eleven 



* See Lilly white's Scores, vol. i. p. 114. 



