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 . BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 235 CHAP. VII. Ancient Specimens of Bowling.—Poem concerning.—Bowling Greens first made bythe English.—Bowling Alleys.—Longbowling.—Supposed origin of Billiards.—Kayles,—Closh,.—Loggats.—Nine-pins.—Skittles.
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 . BOOK III. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 235 CHAP. VII. Ancient Specimens of Bowling.—Poem concerning.—Bowling Greens first made bythe English.—Bowling Alleys.—Longbowling.—Supposed origin of Billiards.—Kayles,—Closh,.—Loggats.—Nine-pins.—Skittles.—Dutch Pins.—Four Corners.——Nine Holes.—John Bull.—Pitch and Hustle.—Bull-running.—Badger-baiting.—Cock-fighting.—Throwing at Cocks.—Duck-hunting —Squirrel-hunting.—Ra bit-hunting. I. The pastime of bowling, whether practised upon open greens, or inbowling-alleys, was probably an invention of the middle ages. I cannotby any means ascertain the time of its introduction ; but I have tracedit back to the thirteenth century. The earliest representation of agame played with bowls, that I have met with, occurs on the twenty-seventh plate,3 where two small cones are placed upright at a distancefrom each other ; and the business of the players is evidently to bowlat them alternately ; the successfu
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