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|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy | |Game Family=Hook-em-snivy | ||
|Description=A reference to | |Description=<p>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.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span>See Google search for “‘kings of crekettes’ ‘patrick sawer’" accessed 10/10/09.</span><span> </span><span>Special thanks to Beth Hise, emails of September 2009, for leads on this game.</span></p> | |||
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Revision as of 17:46, 4 June 2012
| Game | Crekettes |
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| Game Family | 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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