To know the exact history of lawn bowling and get some interesting info on the subject we will have to travel back in time to the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. The evidence has been strong as they have found bowls in Egyptian tombs. So the history of the balls is indeed a mystery, we don't know who made the first ball. As far as seven thousand years ago, the bowls went from Egypt to Greece and Rome and then to the English country.
Archeologists in their excavations of what is referred to as the ‘stone age' have accumulated evidence that quite clearly suggests a certain game being played in those times with stones that were rounded and gently hurled or rolled in the direction of a peg or if you may, a marker.
The bowls found at Hawaii were slightly smaller than the ones found at a ancient dig at Tauranga but both resembled each other. All the bowls are shaped with bias such that when they are delivered with a normal bowling action, the biad causes them to take a curved path. When they take this curved path the speed slows down. The maori also used bowls but they were a little larger then the bowls used today. The size of the bowls was such that they could have been used for similar general purposes. There was an act passed some where in the middle of the 15 th century which forbade low born people from taking part in the game of bowls except with their masters permission. Fines were applied if anyone broke this law of the game.
There are references in the writings of William Shakespeare which goes to show us that women also loved to play this bowling game. When lawn bowling was prohibited due to its increasing popularity as against archery people would entertain them selves with jokes about lawn bowling. In the 19th century the law banning bowls was apparently largely overlooked. It certainly was not rigorously enforced. Many inns had bowling greens to entertain their guests and also help the survival of the game.