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and endeared them to their equals, while it commanded the respect of their superiors in rank and fortune.
All the players there recorded were either members or companions of the Hambledon Club, or their opponents. As it formed no part of Mr. Nyren's plan to include those of any other society, the reader will perceive why several players of recent date, equal, perhaps, in skill to those eminent veterans, have not been included. These may, possibly, be installed with their ancestors in some future edition of our little chronicle, if fate, and the Cricketers, decree in favour of a reprint.
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