So high was Kent’s standing that in 1773 John Duncombe wrote Surry Triumphant: or, the Kentish Mens Defeat. A New Ballad. Being a Parody upon Chevy-Chace, to celebrate an unexpected victory over the team of the century. Later that year came the riposte. A Canterbury printer, T. Smith & Son, was employed to print John Burnby’s The Kentish Cricketers: A Poem, By a Gentleman. Here it is: