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 236 Hijlory of Do??2eJiic Manm Moll of thefe recreations of young people in the middle ages were gradually left to a ftill younger age, and became children's games, and of thefe the margins of the illuminated manufcripts furnilTi abundant examples. One of thefe (taken from the margin of the Royal MS., No. 166. JViyipping-Top. 10 E. iv., of the fourteenth century) will be fufficient for the prefent occafion. A favourite game, during at leaft the later periods of the middle ages, was that which is now called nine-pins. The French gave it the name (juilles, which in our language was corrupted into heyles and No. id-j. The Game of Kayles. hayles. The lad in our cut (No. 167) is not, as at prefent, bowling at the pins, but throwing with a ftick, a form of the game which was called in French the jeu de quilles d hafton, and in Englifh clul-kayles. Money was apparently played for, and the game was looked upon as belonging to the fame clafs as hazard. In a feries of metrical counfels to appren- tices.