7 Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticae (London, 1649), IV, 49; Samuel E. Morison, Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1936), I, 117.

8 Scott Wiener, “Three Generations of Sports and Games in the Massachusetts Bay Colony” (paper, Brandeis, 26 Nov. 1986).

9Records and Files of Essex Quarterly Court, I, 91.

10Mass. Bay Records, I, 85 (22 March 1631).

11Records and Files of the Essex Quarterly Court, V, 39; VII, 364; Boston Gazette, 19-26 April 1725; Wiener, “Three Generations of Sports and Games.”