Provided Derrick's age, it was about 50 % a century earlier when he was at school, and so it is for certain that cricket was staying played c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[12] The see that it was initially a children's activity is bolstered by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary https://edgarnwdlr.glifeblog.com/34448162/the-best-side-of-cricket