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‘Sheer good luck Surrey baseball diary survived’ says historian

He also detailed the weather locally, nationally and internationally, Mr Pooley added.

The diary entry for Easter Monday, 31 March 1755, said Mr Bray had played at “Base Ball” with a group of people having visited Stoke Church in the morning.

“Drank tea, stayed till eight, weather cloudy,” his diary continued.

William Bray lived from 1736 to 1832 and worked as a solicitor, a steward of Surrey manors and a Surrey historian.


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