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Importantly for the future of cricket, the end of the Seven Years' War meant that French influence in India was reduced to a handful of trading posts and its hopes of an eastern Empire were no more, though Bonaparte certainly tried to revive those hopes. Great Britain expanded its interests in India and the era of the British Raj and the consequent hegemony of cricket in Indian sport began. In the short term, economic hardship at home meant little for investment in cricket and we have only a couple of matches in 1763. Wednesday 30 July . WDC records the death of Mr Edmund Chapman of Chertsey in his 69th year, which means he was born in either 1694 or 1695. Chapman was an eminent master bricklayer and "''accounted one of the most dextrous cricket players in England''". We have no earlier references to Edmund Chapman who must have been active c.1715 to c.1740, presumably playing for Chertsey, or perhaps Croydon, and for Surrey as a county. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Seven Years' War was formally ended by the Treaty Of Paris in February. The Earl Of Bute signed on behalf of Great Britain. Great Britain expanded its North American Empire to its greatest-ever extent as a result of this treaty. France ceded all its possessions in Canada and all its territory east of the Mississippi, apart from the islands of St Pierre Et Miquelon . In addition, Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain. In historical terms, this was very important as it ensured that English ideals and customs would prevail in the USA and Canada while those countries developed during the next two centuries. But of more immediate importance was the fact that the Seven Years War exhausted the British and French treasuries and this became the proximate cause of the two great revolutions to follow. Great Britain mistakenly tried to recover its costs at the expense of American colonists and this caused the American Revolution. France by supporting the Americans completely bankrupted itself in the process and this created the revolutionary situation of 1789. MATCHES The first match on 3 August was played for £200 and Middlesex won "with great ease" ARTICLE AND MATCH SOURCES The above information is essentially driven out of various historical notes that have been accumulated over many years and so sources used originally may have been overlooked for the moment. But the sources certainly include:
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