The playground and the parlour: a handbook of boys\ games, sports, and amusements (1868)
Alfred Elliott. · leaf 71
72 BOWLS. … 42. — BOWLS. "Bowls" was a favourite pastime with our ancestors, and was eagerly pursued by the rich and gentle. Drake, Hawkins, and others of the old sea-dogs of England, were playing at " bowls " on the shore at Plymouth when they received tidings of the approach of the Spanish Armada. It was…
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