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- 1344.1 + (<p>"A manuscript of 1344 in the Bodl … <p>"A manuscript of 1344 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (No. 264) shows a game of club and ball. One player throws that ball to another who holds a vicious-looking club. He defends a round object which resembles a stool but with a base instead of legs. . . ". "In the course of time a second stool was added, which obviously made a primitive form of cricket. Now a stool was also called a "cricket" and it is possible that the name cricket came from the three-legged stool . . . " "We may summarize: The game and name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evolving in England through stoolball . . .".</p></br><p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 130-131. Henderson's ref 17 is Bodleian Library, <u>Douce MSS</u> 264, ff 22, 44, 63.<b> </b> Cox's 1903 edition of Strutt includes this drawing and its reference. <b>Note:</b> do other observers agree with Henderson on whether and how stoolball evolved into cricket?</p> <b>Note:</b> do other observers agree with Henderson on whether and how stoolball evolved into cricket?</p>)