 | Robert Nares - English language - 1859 - 544 pages
...word Cotgrave thus describes the game: " A game, wherein around box bowle is, with a mallet struck through a high arch of yron (standing, at either end...at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, wins." Properly, I believe, the place for playing was called the mall, the stick employed pa/email.... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1861 - 338 pages
...which word Cotgrave thus describes the game as, "wherein a round box bowle is, with a mallet, struck through a high arch of yron (standing at either end...ally), one which he that can do at the fewest blowes, wins." A drawing of the time of Charles II., engraved in Smith's Antiquities of Westminster, and of... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1861 - 348 pages
...which word Cotgrave thus describes the game as, "wherein a round box bowle is, with a mallet, struck through a high arch of yron (standing at either end...ally), one which he that can do at the fewest blowes, wins." A drawing of the time of Charles II., engraved in Smith's Antiquities of Westminster, and of... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Mary - 1863 - 414 pages
...chess, tables. company of puppets. 6 These last-named toys had recently been brought to Her puppet show. that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, winnes.' 1 ' Few dayes eftir the murthir remaning at Halyrudehous, she past to Seytoun, exercing hir one (lay... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1866 - 346 pages
...which word Cotgrave thus describes the game as, " wherein a round box bowle is, with a mallet, struck through a high arch of yron (standing at either end...ally), one which he that can do at the fewest blowes, wins." A drawing of the time of Charles II., engraved in Smith's Antiquities of Westminster, and of... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1867 - 580 pages
...word Cotgrave thus describes the game : " A game, wherein around box bowle ie, with a mallet struck through a high arch of yron (standing, at either end...at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, wins." Properly, I believe, the place for playing was called the mall, the stick employed palemail.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1868 - 964 pages
...mallets. Cotgrave says, that pale-maille is “a game wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet struck through a high arch of yron (standing at either end...at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, wins.” Everybody knows that the walk in St. James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name... | |
 | English periodicals - 1868 - 900 pages
...mallets. Cotgrave ^ys, that pale-maille is " a game wherein a round box bowle is with •i mallet struck through a high arch of yron (standing at either end...which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the ni »nber agreed on, wins." Everybody knows that the walk in *t. James's Park, now called the Mall,... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1872 - 562 pages
...word Cotgrave thus describes the game : " A game, wherein around box bowle is, with a mallet struck through a high arch of yron (standing, at either end...at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, wins." Properly, I believe, the place for playing was called tbe mall, the stick employed palemail.... | |
 | Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle - 1872 - 314 pages
...the game: " A game, wherein a round box bowle, is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing, at either end of an ally, one,) which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins." Properly, I believe, the place for playing was called the... | |
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A game wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet strucke through a high arch of yron (standing at either end of an ally one) which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, winnes. 
