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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;"The recreations prohibited by proclamation in the reign of Edward III, exclusive of the games of chance, are thus specified; the throwing of stones, wood, or iron; playing at hand-ball, foot-ball, club-ball, and camucam, which I take to have been a species of goff . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This appears to be one of only two direct references to "club-ball" in the literature. See #1794.2, below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caveat&lt;/strong&gt;: David Block argues that, contrary to Strutt's contention [see #1801.1, below], club ball may not be the common ancestor of cricket and other ballgames. See David Block, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Baseball Before We Knew It,&lt;/span&gt; pages 105-107 and 183-184. Block says that "pilam bacculoream" translates as "ball play with a stick or staff." &lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; We seem not to really know what "camucam" was. Nor, of course, how club ball was played, since the term could have denoted a form of tennis or field hockey or and early form of stoolball or cricket. Edward II had issued a ban of his own in 1314, regarding football.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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