Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
Sep 1930
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
160 x 100 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749869.20
Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings - miscellaneous items of interest to the family. A newspaper cutting with article: BOWLING RULES OF 260 YEARS AGO. Royal Experts at the Game. (By "An Old Hand.") Through the kindness of a friend, who sent me a copy, I have been reading through a set of rules prepared for bowlers so long ago as 1670. they are entitled: "Rules for the game of bowls, as settled by His Most Excellent Majesty, King Charles II., His Royal Highness James Duke of York, and His Grace George Duke of Buckingham," and one may assume that they were adopted and used by bowlers two and a half centuries ago. ......................................................
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.