The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 334
in level No, 20, E. iv. CHAP. VII. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 267 with and at the end of a bowling-alley, and in the midst thereofan upright point set as the mark whereat they bowl. The fol-lowing engraving, from a drawing in a beautiful MS. Book ofPrayers, in the possession of Francis Douce, esq.,… … 91. Bowling.—XIV. Century. Below these we see three persons engaged in the pastime ofbowling; and they have a small bowl, or jack, according to themodern practice, which serves them as a mark for the directionof their bowls: the action of the middle figure, whose bowl issupposed to be running…
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