Crekettes

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Game	Crekettes
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Description	A reference to “crekettes” in a 1533 poem has been construed as evidence that the game of cricket originated in a pastime brought to England by Flemish weavers , who arrived in the 14th Century. A German scholar thinks that this earlier game originated in the Franco-Flemish border area as early as 1150. We have no faint notion of how this earlier game might have been played.
Sources	See Google search for “‘kings of crekettes’ ‘patrick sawer’" accessed 10/10/09. Special thanks to Beth Hise, emails of September 2009, for leads on this game.
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