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![[Picture: 1390.—Shuttle-Cock (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1390-Shuttle-Cock/1390-Shuttle-Cock-q97-1308x1074.jpg "[Picture: 1390.—Shuttle-Cock (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.)]")
Two boys or men are seen playing shuttlecock with wide bats. Is this an early form of badminton?
