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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 (1830)

Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 337

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owing at Cocks.—XXII. Duck-hunting. — XXIII. Squirrel-hunting. — XXIV. Rabbit-hunting. I.—ANCIENT BOWLING—POEM ON BOWLING. The pastime of bowling, whether practised upon open greensor in bowling-alleys, was probably an invention of the middleages. I cannot by any means ascertain the time of its… … 90. Bowling.—XIII. Century. Here two small cones are placed upright at a distance fromeach other; and the business of the players is evidently to bowlat them alternately; the successful candidate being he whocould lay his bowl the nearest to the mark. The French,according to Cotgrave, had a similar…

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