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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 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 &lt;i&gt;la soule&lt;/i&gt;, and evolving in England through stoolball . . .".&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Henderson, Robert W., &lt;u&gt;Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games&lt;/u&gt; [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 130-131. Henderson's ref 17 is Bodleian Library, &lt;u&gt;Douce MSS&lt;/u&gt; 264, ff 22, 44, 63.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt; Cox's 1903 edition of Strutt includes this drawing and its reference. &lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; do other observers agree with Henderson on whether and how stoolball evolved into cricket?&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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