[11] The next mention is a match on 22 September 1769, played at Sevenoaks Vine between West Kent and a Surrey team.
The question of nomenclature arises here because, with at least three given men on each side, the match is also called Duke of Dorset's XI versus Sir Horatio Mann's XI after the two team patrons John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset and Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann.
The "East Kent" team, Mann's XI, included John Small, Richard Aubrey Veck and Lamborn of Hambledon and Hampshire.
This also featured guest players with Surrey's William Yalden and Hampshire's James Aylward joining Small, Lamborn, Sueter, Bedster, Mann and Stevens.
He calls the June match "West Kent with Mann, Sueter & Lumpy versus East Kent with Small, Veck & Lamborn", but then calls the August match "Sir Horace Mann's Side versus the Duke of Dorset's Side".
A curious condition of the match was that Lumpy Stevens, generally reckoned the outstanding bowler of the time, "was not to bowl, by agreement".
Stephen Amherst, who was a Maidstone man and the patron of later West Kent teams, played in this match for the East.
[16] Amherst had become a match organiser by the start of the 1789 season and led his team to a five-wicket victory against that of Mann at Coxheath on 22 and 23 May.
A contemporary report in the Maidstone Journal describes the game as "Sir H. Mann with a select eleven of the County against S. Amherst, Esq.