[1] Outside of England Mrs. Piozzi found ‘a game called _Pallamajo_, something like our cricket.’ If she meant _Pallone_, she merely proved herself no cricketer. Mr. Arthur Evans has noticed, in Dalmatia, a kind of trap-bat, a ‘cat’ being used in place of a ball, and the length of hits being measured by the stick that serves as bat. [2] The learned have debated as to the origin of the local term ‘Dex.’ Let it suffice to say that it is not what they suppose. [3] See M. de Charnay’s _Ancient Cities of the New World_, p. 96. London, 1887. [4] Strutt’s _Sports and Pastimes_, 1810, pp. 89, 90; cf. Durfey’s _Pills to Purge Melancholy_, i. 91. [5] _Popular Antiquities_, i. 153, _note_. London, 1813. The lines are quoted by Brand from _A Pleasant Grove of New Fancies_, p. 74. London, 1657. He might have gone straight to Herrick, _Hesperides_ (1648), p. 280. [6] Edinburgh, 1841. [7] In married life, two are quite enough to play ‘cat and dog.’ [8] Compare _Loggat_. See _Hamlet_, v. 1, and _Nares’ Glossary_, s. v. [9] Brand, ii. 287, quotes a reference to ‘cat and doug’ from the _Life of the Scotch Rogue_. London, 1722. The Scotch Rogue says nothing about cricket. [10] P. 101. [11] The miniature in which a woman bowls to a back-handed player with no wicket is dated 1344. Bodl., 264. But the evidence of art is never very trustworthy. The painter may have been a woman, or a monk, or an uneducated person. Many of the pictures in modern books give a misleading view of cricket. [12] _Etymological Dictionary_, 1882. The writer here owes a great deal to Dr. Murray, of the _English Dictionary_, who kindly lent him the ‘slips’ (short, of course) on Cricket, as far as they have been collected.--A. L. [13] See M. Charles Deulin’s tale, ‘Le Grand Choleur,’ in _Contes du Roi Gambrinus_. There is a good deal of information in _Germinal_, by M. Zola. The balls are egg-shaped, and of boxwood. The game is a kind of golf, played across country. [14] Cotgrave’s _French Dictionary_, ‘Crosse,’ 1611. [15] _Diary_, p. 159; May, 1676. [16] i. p. 197. Letter xxi. [17] The bibliography of the _Dunciad_ is not a subject to be rushed into rashly, nor in a note; but this must have been written between 1726–1735, there or thereabouts. The Scholiasts recognise Lord John Sackville as the Senator, and quote a familiar passage from Horace Walpole (June 8, 1747) about _Cricketalia_, instituted in his honour. We may, perhaps, regard Lord John as one of the early patrons of the game. [18] Gray’s _Works_, 1807, ii. p. 2. See also ‘urge the flying ball,’ which must refer, I think, to cricket. That ode was first published in 1747. Johnson carelessly paraphrases ‘drives the hoop, or _tosses_ the ball!’--C. W. [19] To George Montagu, May 6, 1726.