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- 1310c.2 + (<p>A 1915 book on ancient British sc … <p>A 1915 book on ancient British schools includes a drawing dated circa 1310. It shows two players, one clad in a garment with broad horizontal stripes. Both players hold clubs, and the player in stripes appears ready to swing at a melon-sized ball. The other player appears to be preparing to fungo the ball . . . or, conceivably, toss it with his left hand, to the striped player. The illustration's caption is "A Game of Ball, Stripes vs. Plain, c. 1310." The British Museum's documentation: MS Royal 10 E. iv, f. 94 b. </p></br><p>Posted by Mark Aubrey to the 19CBB listserve on 1/10/2008. The 1915 source, available in full text on Google Books, is A. F. Leach, <i>The Schools of Medieval England</i> (Macmillan, New York, 1915), on the unnumbered page following p. 140.</p>Macmillan, New York, 1915), on the unnumbered page following p. 140.</p>)