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<p><b>Note:</b>  Is it possible to determine the approximate date of this event? Internal evidence places it in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, which would be 1547-48.  Elizabeth I named her close associate [once rumored to be her choice as husband] Dudley to became Earl of Leicester in the 1564, and he died in 1588. The Wotton account was written by John Smyth of Nibley (1567-1640) in his <i>Berkeley</i> <i>Manuscripts</i> [Sir John McLean, ed., Gloucester, Printed by John Bellows, 1883].  Smyth's association with Berkeley Castle began in 1589, and the Manuscripts were written in about 1618, so it is not a first-hand report.  <b>Caveat:</b>  "Stobbal" is usually used to denote a field game resembling field hockey or golf; thus, this account may not relate to stoolball <i>per se</i>.</p>
<p><b>Note:</b>  Is it possible to determine the approximate date of this event? Internal evidence places it in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, which would be 1547-48.  Elizabeth I named her close associate [once rumored to be her choice as husband] Dudley to became Earl of Leicester in the 1564, and he died in 1588. The Wotton account was written by John Smyth of Nibley (1567-1640) in his <i>Berkeley</i> <i>Manuscripts</i> [Sir John McLean, ed., Gloucester, Printed by John Bellows, 1883].  Smyth's association with Berkeley Castle began in 1589, and the Manuscripts were written in about 1618, so it is not a first-hand report.  <b>Caveat:</b>  "Stobbal" is usually used to denote a field game resembling field hockey or golf; thus, this account may not relate to stoolball <i>per se</i>.</p>
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Queen Elizabeth's Dudley Plays Stoolball at Wotton Hill?

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According to a manuscript written in the 1600s, Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester and his "Trayne" "came to Wotton, and thence to Michaelwood Lodge . . . and thence went to Wotton Hill, where hee paid a match at stobball."

Note: Is it possible to determine the approximate date of this event? Internal evidence places it in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, which would be 1547-48. Elizabeth I named her close associate [once rumored to be her choice as husband] Dudley to became Earl of Leicester in the 1564, and he died in 1588. The Wotton account was written by John Smyth of Nibley (1567-1640) in his Berkeley Manuscripts [Sir John McLean, ed., Gloucester, Printed by John Bellows, 1883]. Smyth's association with Berkeley Castle began in 1589, and the Manuscripts were written in about 1618, so it is not a first-hand report. Caveat: "Stobbal" is usually used to denote a field game resembling field hockey or golf; thus, this account may not relate to stoolball per se.

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