114 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters . 
Beverley. 
DOCUMENTS. 
Date Document 
1377. Hist. Mss., p. 65. 
Leach (2), p. 209. 
Chambers, II, 
339. Bev. Town 
Doc., p. 45. 
1390. Hist. Mss., p. 66. 
Chambers, II, 
339. Leach (2), 
p.208. Bev. Town 
Doc., p. 33. 
1391. Hist. Mss., p. 66. 
Leach (2), p. 209. 
Chambers, II, 
339. 
1392. Hist. Mss., p. 66. 
Bev. Town Doc., 
p. 36. 
2. Leach (2), 209. 
1409. Hist. Mss., p. 89. 
Bev. Town Doc., 
p. 40. 
Content 
“Also, A. D. 1377, they 
agreed in the Guild hall 
that all tailors of Bev¬ 
erly should be present 
at the account of the 
expenses incurred by 
the pageant of the play 
of Corpus Christi.” 
38 specified crafts to 
“have their plays and 
pageants (‘pagentes’) 
prepared hereafter 
every day in the Feast 
of Corpus Christi, in 
manner and form ac¬ 
cording to the ancient 
custom of the town of 
Beverley.” 
John of Erghes, hay- 
rer, before 12 Keepers 
of town “undertook for 
himself and his fellows 
of the same craft to 
play a certain play 
called Paradise suffi¬ 
ciently, viz., every year 
on the feast of Corpus 
Christi when other 
craftsmen of the same 
town play, during the 
life of the said John of 
Erghes, at his own 
cost.” 
1. Smiths pay penalty 
for not playing their 
play of Ascension on 
Corpus Christi day. 
2. Play under penalty. 
“And the said gold¬ 
smiths shall yearly 
maintain—a torch in 
the procession on Cor¬ 
pus Christi day forever.” 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage I. 
Stage V. 
Crafts for play in¬ 
clude trades not joined 
before 1416. (note in 
Hist. Mss., p. 99.) 
1410-11. Hist. Mss., p. 97. 
1411 (?). Hist. Mss., p. 
99. 
“Every master of the 
craft of coupers who 
shall newly occupy shall 
pay on his entrance to 
the use of the craft and 
costs of Corpus Christi 
play 2s. 
Ordinances of Bowers 
and Fletchers under 
date of 1411 provide for 
play of “Fleyhg into Egip 
and for play of Habra- 
ham and Isaak.” 
