The Lost Ball Penalty in Golf in the Old Days

Imagine it's 1845 at Old Musselburgh Golf Links. You are playing an important match with a lot of £ at stake. Your ball veers deep into the only gorse plant on the hole and the ball is lost. You lose a couple of strokes, decrease your chance of winning the match, lost a very expensive feathery golf ball, and if you are a ball maker, you'll need to get back in your shop and make some more balls. But the rule for a lost ball wasn't always two strokes, or what we call stroke and distance.