Throughout each day the men showed their prowess (and the women their skill) at the game of bowls. Unlike the image of Drake before the Armada; it appears that bowls was a game using large skittles and even larger balls.
The skittles you see in the picture are taken from a period woodcut; though ours are slightly smaller than in the woodcut. even so you need alot of strength to make any impact upon them with the bowls; despite them being made out of solid beech !.
While John, who you see throwing a bowl here was one of the better men; the final winners of the competitions were both serving women !.
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