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<p><a href="https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getfaq.php?id=644">https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getfaq.php?id=644</a></p>
<p>Per-e Email from Anita Broad, Vice Chair, Stoolball England, January 23, 2018.</p> +
<p>Griffin, Emma, "Popular Recreation and the Significance of Space," (publication unknown), page 36.</p>
<p>The original source is shown as the Crosfield Diary entry for March 1, 1633, page 63. Thanks to John Thorn for supplementing a draft of this entry. One citation for the diary is F. S. Boas, editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Diary of Thomas Crosfield</span> (Oxford University Press, London, 1935).</p> +
<p>Herrick, Robert, <span>Hesperdes: or, the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.</span> [London], page 280, per David Block, <span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 171.</p> +
<p>Source: 13: Doc Hist., Volume Iv, pp.13-15, and Father Jogues' papers in NY Hist. Soc. Coll., 1857, pp. 161-229, as cited in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Manual of the Reformed Church in America (Formerly Ref. Prot. Dutch Church), 1628-1902</span>, E. T. Corwin, D.D., Fourth Edition (Reformed Church in America, New York, 1902.) Provided by John Thorn, email of 2/1/2008.</p>
<p>See also:Esther Singleton, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dutch New York</span> (Dodd Mead, 1909), as cited in Thomas L. Altherr, “There is Nothing Now Heard of, in Our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture</span> 1999 (McFarland, 2000), pp. 190. [Pages ix and 202 and 302 in Singleton touch on "ball-playing" in this period.] </p> +
<p>Jaap Jacobs, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America</span> (Cornell U. Press: Ithaca, 2009), p. 244.</p>
<p>Pam Bakker, who reported this find, notes that Jacobs' sources include: B. Fernow (ed.) and E. B. O'Callahan (trans.), <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini</span> (7 vols, New York 1897, 2nd ed. Baltimore 1976, 1:24-26); also Ch. T. Gehring (trans. and ed.),<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Laws and Writs of Appeal 1647-1663</span> (New Netherland Documents Series, vol. 16, part 1) (Syracuse 1991 and this on p. 71); and thirdly E. B. O'Callagham (trans.) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1636-1674</span> (Albany 1868 on p. 259). </p>
<p>See her full find below under Supplemental Text.</p>
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<p>Galileo Galilei, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mathematical Collections and Translations. "Inglished from his original Italian copy by Thomas Salusbury"</span> (London, 1661), page 142.</p>
<p>Provided by David Block, emails of 2/27/2008 and 9/13/2015.</p> +
<p>Bunyan, John, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Grace abounding to the chief of sinners</span> [London], per David Block, <span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 173. Autobiographical account by Bunyan, the author of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Pilgrim's Progress</span>. David notes on 5/29/2005 that this reference was originally reported by Harold Peterson, but that Peterson had attributed it to <span>Pilgrim's Progress</span> itself.</p> +
<p>David Cram, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, and Dorothy Johnston, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Francis Willughby's Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes</span> [Ashgate Publishing, 2003].</p>
<p>See also L. McCray, "The Amazing Francis Willughby, and the Role of Stoolball in the Evolution of Baseball and Cricket," in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game</span>, Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pages 17-20.</p> +
<p>Dated November 13, 1676. <span>Laws of the City of New York</span> [Publication data?], page 27.</p> +
<p>Christopher Hill, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">John Bunyan; A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his</span> Church (1989), page 270.</p>
<p>Another source attributes Hill's source as Particia Bell, "John Bunyan in Bedfordshire," in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The John Bunyan Lectures</span> (Bedfordshire Educational Service, 1978), pp. 35-36.</p> +
<p>Thomas Moult, "The Story of the Game," in Moult, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bat and Ball: A New Book of Cricket</span> (The Sportsmans Book Club, London, 1960; reprinted from 1935), page 27. Moult does not further identify this publication.</p> +
<p>Samuel Barber, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boston</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Common: A Diary of Notable Events, Incidents and Neighboring Occurrences</span> (Christopher Publishing, Boston, 1916 - Second Edition), page 47.</p> +
<p>David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before Knew It</span> (U Nebraska Press, 2007), page 176.</p> +
<p>Thomas, M. H., ed., <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Diary of Samuel Sewel</span>l<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> 1674 - 1729</span></span>, Volume II, 1710 - 1729 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), p. 718. Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>,</span> ref # 18.</p> +
<p>W. Southgate,<em> The History of Scarborough, 1633 - 1783, </em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Collections of the Maine Historical Society</span>, Volume III (Portland, 1853), page 148. G-Books search <"bloody affrays like these">, 4/2/2013.</p> +
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Diary of Samuel Sewall</span>, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society</span> (Published by the Society, Boston, 1882) Volume VII - Fifth Series, page 372. As cited by Thomas L. Altherr, “There is Nothing Now Heard of, in Our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture</span> 1999 (McFarland, 2000), p. 190.</p> +
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Nicholas Gilman papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, as cited in Clifford K. Shipton, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New England Life in the Eighteenth Century</span> (Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 287. </span></p> +
<p><em>American Weekly Mercury, </em>Philadelphia, July 6, 1732, page 3, column 2;</p>
<p>from a series of paragraphs/sentences datelined *New-York, July 3. The preceding paragraph had begun "On Friday last."</p> +
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The London Magazine</span>, vol 2, December 1733 [London], page 637, per David Block, <em>Baseball Before We Knew It</em>, page 177-8.</p> +