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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;A Westminster statute, made to curb gambling by rowdy soldiers upon their return from battle, reportedly imposed sanctions for "playing at cloish, ragle, half-bowls, handyn and handoute, quekeborde, and if any person permits even others to play at such games in his house or yard, he is to be imprisoned for three years; as also he who plays at such game, to forfeit ten pounds to the king, and be imprisoned for two years."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Observations Upon the Statutes, Chiefly the More Ancient, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-first [Year] of James the First&lt;/u&gt;, etc. (Daines Barrington, London, 1766), page 335.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The author adds: "This is, perhaps, the most severe law which has ever been made in any country against gaming, and some of the forbidden sports seem to have been manly exercises, particularly the &lt;i&gt;handing&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;handoute&lt;/i&gt;, which I should suppose to be a kind of cricket, as the term &lt;i&gt;hands&lt;/i&gt; is still retained in that game [for what would later be known as innings].&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;An1864 writer expands further: "Half-bowls was played with pins and one-half of a sphere of wood, upon the floor of a room. It is said to be still played in Hertfordshire under the name of rolly-polly. Hand-in and hand-out was a ring-game, played by boys and girls, like kissing-ring [footnote 31]." John Harland&lt;u&gt;, A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the Sixteenth Century&lt;/u&gt; (Chetham Society, 1864), p 34. Accessed 1/27/10 via Google Books search ("court leet" half-bowls). "Roly-poly" and hand-in/hand-out are sometimes later described as having running/plugging features preserved in cat games and early forms of base ball. Thus, these prohibitions may or may not include games resembling baseball. &lt;b&gt;Query:&lt;/b&gt; Can residents of Britain help us understand this ancient text?&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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