Note 1 — Chapter I · THE HISTORY OF CRICKET.

Outside of England Mrs. Piozzi found ‘a game called Pallamajo, something like our cricket.’ If she meant Pallone, she merely proved herself no cricketer. Mr. Arthur Evans has noticed, in Dalmatia, a kind of trap-bat, a ‘cat’ being used in place of a ball, and the length of hits being measured by the stick that serves as bat.