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(i) The bowling-allev ; (2) "open grounds 

 of advantage " — that is, bowling-greens with a 

 fall one way ; (3) level bowling-greens. In 

 Country Contentments (chap, viii.) he says, 

 " Your flat bowles, being the best for close 

 allies, your round byazed bowles for open 

 grounds of advantage, and your round bowles 

 like a ball for greene swarthes that are plaine 

 and levell." A terrace or raised walk about 

 2 feet high often ran round the bowling- 

 green, as at Cusworth, in Yorkshire. At 

 Badminton a raised walk ran round two sides 

 of the green, and at one end was a second 

 raised alley for skittles. The shape of the 

 green was usually square, and it seems to have 

 been placed indifferently at the back or sides 

 of the house. In later work the bowling-green 

 was sometimes placed at a distance from the 

 house, and laid out circular. At Cashiobury, 

 laid out by Cook for Lord Essex, the bowling- 

 green was placed at the end of a long avenue, 

 and surrounded by a circular belt ot fir-trees. 

 At Penshurst the green was put out in the 

 middle of a field. At Hampton Court the 

 bowling-green is over half a mile from the 

 palace. It is oval in plan and lies at the end of 

 the Long Walk. This bowling-green is now 

 planted over with trees. One of the pavilions 

 remains ; the other was destroyed in this cen- 

 tury. Bowling-greens continued to be laid out 

 in the eighteenth century. In Kip's view of 



