27 JULY 1907, Page 18

THE SPIRIT OF EARLY CRICKET.

go Tile EDITOR OF TEE "SescrAT0R.1

SIR,—Those of your readers who enjoyed the excellent review of Mr. E. V. Lucas's "The Hambledon Men" which appeared in your issue of July 6th may like to see the enclosed copy of verses concerning the same famous club. They are to be found in a manuscript history of Hampshire, of date 1778, at present in the library of the Hartley University College, Southampton. The writer of the manuscript appears to have been a certain Thomas Gatehouse of Nether Wallop, but I cannot say whether or not the verses are to be attributed to