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
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… … 92. Bowling.—XIV. Century. The following little poem, by William Stroad, which I foundin Justin Pagitts Memorandum Book, one of the Harleianmanuscripts at the British Museum,^ expresses happily enoughthe turns and chances of the game of bowls : < Page 41. » No. 1026. 268 SPORTS AND PASTIMES…
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