Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions . ttoon, or mace, through an arch, towards a mark at a distancefrom it; and hence, I make no doubt, originated the game of bil-liards, which formerly was played with a similar kind of arch and amark called the king, but placed upon a table inste
Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions . ttoon, or mace, through an arch, towards a mark at a distancefrom it; and hence, I make no doubt, originated the game of bil-liards, which formerly was played with a similar kind of arch and amark called the king, but placed upon a table instead of the improvement by adding the table answered two good purposes:it precluded the necessity for the player to kneel, or stoop exceedingly,when he struck the bowl, and accommodated the game to the limits ofa chamber. VI. Kayles, written also cayles and keiles, derived from the Frenchword quilles, was played with pins, and no doubt gave origin to themodern game of nine-pins; though primitively the kale-pins do notappear to have been confined to any certain number, as we mayobserve by referring to the twenty-eighth plate, where the pastime ofkayles playing is twice represented; in one instance there are sixpins, and in the other eight; the form of these pins is also different, i * Country Contentments/ published A. D. 1615.
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