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![[Picture: 1378.—Bowling Ball. (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1378-Bowling-Ball/1378-Bowling-Ball-q97-429x200.jpg "[Picture: 1378.—Bowling Ball. (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.)]")
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[After the end of the Wars of the Roses, in the fifteenth century] the green sward that had been trampled by unaccustomed feet is re-levelled for the bowls (Fig. 1378) (p. 384)
Here, the game appears to have regular bowls and a recognisable “jack,” or smaller ball, unlike the game shown in Fig. 794.
