Given Derrick's age, it was about half a century previously when he was in school, and so it is certain that cricket was becoming performed c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[twelve] The view that it absolutely was at first a children's game is bolstered by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary https://felixucjpx.ka-blogs.com/88780942/detailed-notes-on-match44-id