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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;Warwickshire scientist Francis Willughby (1635-1672) compiled, in manuscript form, descriptions of over 130 games, including, stoolball, hornebillets, kit-cat, stowball, and tutball [but not cricket, trapball or rounders]. He died at 36 and the incomplete manuscript, long held privately, became known to researchers in the 1990s and was published in 2003.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Willughby described stoolball as a game in which a team of players defended an overturned stool with their hands.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hornebillets, unlike stoolball and early cat games, involved using a bat, and also base-running [between holes placed 7 or 8 yards apart], but it used no ball - a cat was used as the batted object. A runner [running was compulsory, even for short hits] had to place his staff in a hole before the other team could put the cat in that hole. The number of holes depended on the number of players available.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Stowball appears as a golf-like game.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Kit Cat is described as a sort of fungo game in which the cats can be propelled 60 yards or more.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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