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Five More historic things you never thought you needed to know, and maybe don't. #12

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  Five More historic things you never thought you needed to know, and maybe don't.  #12 The Cricketing Nymph The Derby Mercury [27th June 1793] reported a cricket match, played on Bury Common, Sussex, between Married women and maidens.  The Paper reported ‘..it was won by the married women, who had 80 notches more than the nymphs.’ Cricket Match Played by the Countess of Derby and Other Ladies, 1779 anon. Dart Arts on the Loose in London - 1798. The Staffordshire Advertiser [11th August 1798] reported the prosecution of John Powell, ‘a professor of the Black Arts’.  He was arrested by a Bow-street Runner, after fraudulently taking 1s 6d from a woman on the grounds he could give news of her missing husband.  Powell’s ‘books of magic, calculations etc’ were seized. When not predicting the future Powell arranged several marriages and performed the ceremonies, which he said were more binding than those of churches. Julius Richard Petri invented the Petri dish. Petr...
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Continuing to Crowd Fund the Volunteers: The Second donor lists for the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry - July 1794

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  Continuing to Crowd Fund the Volunteers: The Second donor lists for the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry - July 1794 Plate from P C G Webster,  The Records of the Queen’s Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield & London, 1870. Money, as Cicero noted, is the nerves of war and the founding of a regiment of horse needed a lot of it.  A month after the initial publication of the list of donors, who were making the raising of the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry possible, a second list was published of people who made its success probable. The list contained 173 names and represented the spread of the appeal from the great and good to the greatish and generally well intentioned. Both lists reveal this to be a project in which, in the early Summer of 1794, required motivated collectors as some communities rallied to this Staffordshire project, while others, less connected to the heart of the county, stood by. The Shrewsbury Chronicle Friday 25th July 1794. [1]...
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