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 342
, or stoop exceedingly, when he struck the bowl,and accommodated the game to the limits of a chamber. VI.—KAYLES. Kayles, written also cayles and koilos, derived from the Frenchword quilles, was played with pins, and no d()ul)t gave originto the modern game of nine-pins; though primitively the… … 94. Kayles.—XIV. Century. In this engraving, from a Book of Prayers in the possessionof Francis Douce, esq., the pastime of kayles is playing with sixpins. The annexed is from another drawing on a MS. in theRoyal Library.
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