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 341
osing- outhis ground, and preventing the winding, hanging, and manyturning advantages of the same, whether it be in open wildeplaces, or in close allies; and for his sport, the chusing of thebowle is the greatest cunning; your flat bowles being best forallies, your round byazed bowles for open… … 93. A CURIOUS ANCIENT PaSTIME. Here the bowls, instead of being cast by the hand, are drivenwith a battoon, or mace, through an arch, towards a mark at adistance from it; and hence, I make no doubt, originated thegame of billiards, which formerly was played M-ith a similar kindof arch and a mark…
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