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Wednefday Poft. Arrived EMails/row Flanders Holland. NAVAL AFFAIRS. General Evening Post, May 15. WE hear from ..

... heron hay> April 20, 1760. 4. We live here very happily, have extreme fine weather, and go afhore very often and play at cricket and the French have been fo cottiplailant as fend us fome cows, and all forts of fowis and greens ; fo that I want nothing ...

Published: Monday 26 May 1760
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE NORTH BRITON-

... George ie particular, (lie bad fonr long years, or more, ct Service to plead, an! is, befides, a very excellent player ar cricket) but I believe the brave officer I am fpcaking of, had been longer a Captain, than theother has been in tho army. Why fe was ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1763
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2316 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Paragraph ia a letter in the Hanover Magaz'm :/l.lafl July

... great number of men, from the E* Indies. The Falmouth being unfit for fervice,* 3 left at Batavi3. . £ A few days fince a cricket match was played Upham Hants, by eleven married againft *^j maiden women, for a large plumb-cake, a barre ale, and regale ...

Published: Monday 30 September 1765
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON

... jr. It is an additional duty will be laid on French wines and brandy next felfion of parlia* ment. i 7. A few days fince a cricket match was played at Upham, Hants, by eleven married againft eleven maiden women, tor a large plum cake, a bar» rcl of ale ...

Published: Monday 07 October 1765
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2235 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Edwin and Angelina. A ballad. Dr Golifmith. Uin, gentle hermit of the dale, I And guide my lonely way, To

... And, flcill'd in legendary lore, The lingering hours beguil'd. Around in fympathetic mirth Its tricks the kitten tries; The cricket chirrups in the hearth; The crackling jot flics. But nothing could a charm impart To foothe the ftranger's wo; For grief was ...

Published: Monday 02 May 1768
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 637 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

LONDON

... us. I will not decline the poil. Fenchttrch-flreet, Lon- don, Monday, Sept. James Townsend. To Meil. William Plomer, John Cricket, Jofeph Heylin, James Tew, Nicholas Forfter, Committee of the Livery from the Paul's Head Tavern. Mr. Townfen i's angry refufal ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1771
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

lajt'j front Ti: 'iced ahd Flanders

... the name of Fordyce affixed to it, to the amount of four mill ions and upwards. The Prince of Wales was lately playing nt cricket in Kew Gardens, with Lord Herbert, two fons of the Bi- fliop of Cheller, and others. A difpute, in the courfe of their play ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1772
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1828 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

London

... A cour- tier. M. Surry triumphant; or, The Kentifh- mens defeat. A ballad; being a paro- dy on Chevy-Chace. 15. —— A Jate cricket-match, Surry againft Kent, the Sarrymen beaded by Lord Tan- kerville, &c. the Kentifhmen by the Duke of Dorfet, Sir Horace ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1773
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 672 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

London

... poetical compofitions. C. The adventures of Telemachus the UlyfTes Book 1. Tranflated into by John Clark, d. The Ktntifh Cricketers; poenn. [,]i' gentleman. Being reply to late cation of a parody on the ballad ,»• hace, intitled, Siirry Triumphant [4 Lav ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1773
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1549 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

.jVIEW of NEW PUBLICATIONS.continued from OBober 25

... is an ingenious piece of pleafantry, though the -twoiild wilh us to underftand fomething more by The fubjeit is the laft Cricket match between the ■ ot Kent and Surry ; the former headed by the jtofDoriet. the latter by Lord Tankerville. The '» incidents ...

Published: Monday 08 November 1773
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 526 | Page: 1 | Tags: none