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...programme of the present trip includes games with the four strongest gentlemen counties-Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Gloucestershire. The last game will be played either at Lord's against Oxford or Cambridge, or at the Oval against an I Zingari eleven...
...Oral, Gentlemen of Surrey; July 22 and 23, at historical Lords, against the Marylebone Cricket Club; July 25 and 26, at Maidstone, Gentlemen of Kent; July 29 and 30, Southampton, Gentlemen of Hampshire; August 1 and 2, Portsmouth. United Service; August 5 and 6, Brighton, Gentlemen of Sussex; August 8 and 9, Oval or Lords, Oxford or Cambridge University...
...once one of the largest in the town. Emanuel was built upon the site of a Dominican monastery, and in the strife between the King and the people became known and marked as a Puritan college. It is of this college, and its companion in the Puritan faith, Sidney Sussex, that Charles I said "They are the nurseries of Puritans." Oliver Cromwell graduated from Sydney Sussex, and the cast of his features taken after his death, of which our own Gore Hall possesses a copy, is kept here...
...missing piece of property in the dismantled interior of University Hall noticed among the ruins of the chimney an old document of singular appearance, which curiosity led him to examine closely. It is a deed to six and a half acres of land, called the Black Fields, in Miteham, Sussex, England, and is dated Lady Day, March, 1651. Brown University was founded in Sussex, England, and subsequently removed to Rhode Island, and it is thought possible that the ancient parchment which has just been brought to light may be the original deed for the land on which the college...