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- 1676.2 + (<p>The chaplain assigned to three Br … <p>The chaplain assigned to three British ships at Aleppo [now in northern Syria] wrote this in his diary for May 6, 1676:</p></br><p>As was the custom all summer long, this day [in May 1676] "at least 40 of the English, with his worship the Consull, rod [sic] out of the citty about 4 miles to the Greene Platt, a fine vally by a river side, to recreate them selves. Where a princely tent was pitched; and wee had severall pastimes and sports, as duck-hunting, fishing, shooting, handball, krickett, scrofilo . . . . and at 6 wee returne all home in good order, but soundly tyred and weary."</p></br><p>A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, <u>Cricket,</u> (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4<sup>th</sup> edition, page 8.<b> </b> The passage is at Teonge, Henry, <u>The Diary of Henry Teonge</u> (Charles Knight, London, 1825), page 159. Accessed on Google Books, 12/28/2007.</p>The Diary of Henry Teonge</u> (Charles Knight, London, 1825), page 159. Accessed on Google Books, 12/28/2007.</p>)