112 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Aberdeen 
Date Document 
1512. Register, p. 442. 
N 
1530. Register, p. 449. 
1531. Register, p. 450. 
1533. Chambers, II, 332 
1538. Council Register, 
p. 452. 
1546. Chambers, II, 332 
1553. Register, p. 456. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Content 
“Every Craft—s all 
have a pair of torcheiss, 
—to decoir and worschip 
the sacrament one Cor¬ 
pus Xti day.” 
“The craftismen of 
this burgh sail, in thair 
best arraye, keep and 
decoir the processionls 
on XXi [Corpus Christi] 
day and Candelmas day 
—every craft with thair 
avin banar, with the 
aimes of their craft 
thairin, with thair peg- 
ane.—And every craft 
in the said processionis 
pall furneiss thair pe- 
gane and banar honest- 
lie as effers, conforme 
to the auld statut maid 
in the yeir of Godjajvc 
tene yers.” 
“The Craftismen 
—keipe and decoir the 
procession on Corpus 
Christi dais, and Candil- 
mes day—Every craft 
with thair Awin banar, 
with the armes of thair 
craft therein.—E very 
ane of the said craftis, 
in the Candilmes pro- 
cessioun, shall furneiss 
thair pageane, conforme 
to the auld statut, maid 
in the yeir of God jai 
vc and X yeris.” 
“‘The craftismen— 
sail—keip and decoir, 
the processionis on XXi 
day and Candelmes day 
—every craft with thair 
avin banar—with their 
pegane.’ ” 
Hammermen complain 
that “ameraris” usurp 
their place in Corpus 
Christi procession. 
“Litsters ordered to 
‘haue thar banar and 
Pagane, as uther craftis 
of the said Burgh hes, 
ilk yeir, on Corpus Xhri 
day, and Candilmess 
dayis processiounis.’ ” 
Smiths convicted of 
“refusing Contempur- 
indlie to gang in ordour 
in the processioun of 
Corpus Xris day.” 
Interpretation 
‘Pegane’ probably re¬ 
fers to the pageant 
wagon for in the regu¬ 
lations for the Candle¬ 
mas procession (1505/6) 
is this phrase “pa¬ 
geant that they fur- 
nyss to keip their geir.” 
Chambers, II, 331. 
Stage VI, Stage II. 
The furnishing of the 
pageants probably re¬ 
fers only to the Candel¬ 
mas procession. 
Since by 1531, the Cor¬ 
pus Christi plays had 
been established, the 
carrying of the banners 
represents a survival 
from stage II, rather 
than stage II itself. 
Stage I. 
Stage VI, Stage II. 
Stage I. 
