Bowls accessories and the history of bowels - By: Gareth hoyles

Bowls accessories and the history of bowels

There is more to bowels that meets the eye, and that is also incorporated in the history of bowels and bowels accessories. This article is aimed at exploring the world and history of bowels, including bowels accessories and bowels equipment. This article will then conclude by informing you on where you can find more information on bowels accessories and bowels equipment.

Bowels accessories – the history of the sport

Bowels have been traced certainly to the 13th century, and conjecturally to the 12th. William Fitzstephen (d. about 1190), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were "exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones [in jactu lapidum], and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men." It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game - and there is a record of iron bowls (and other bowls accessories) being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn, - nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted. The jactus lapidum of which he speaks may have been more akin to shotput. It is beyond dispute, however, that the game, at any rate in a rudimentary form, was played in the 13th century. A manuscript of that period in the royal library, Windsor (No. 20, E iv.), contains a drawing representing two players aiming at a small cone instead of an earthenware ball or jack. The world's oldest surviving bowling green (and bowling accessories) is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299

As you can see bowls has a very rich and long history, if you would still like some more information then this can be found by entering the keywords ‘bowels accessories’ into an internet search engine.

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