Pierson—The Corpus Christi Procession. 
115 
Beverley. 
Date Document 
1411. Hist. Mss., p. 67. 
Chambers, II, 
341. Leach (2), 
211 . 
Bev. Town Doc., p. 
34. 
1413. Hist. Mss., p. 98. 
1414. 1. Chambers, II, 
339. 
2. Leach (2), 
p. 211. 
1416. Hist. Mss., p. 101. 
1420. Leach (2), p. 208. 
1423. Hist. Mss., p. 160. 
Leach (2), p. 216. 
1423. Hist. Mss., p. 160. 
Leach (2), p. 214. 
1423. Hist. Mss., p. 160. 
Chambers, II, 339. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Content 
Those of the worthier 
sort, though they had 
not done so before, 
should on Corpus Christi 
day erect a pageant, 
and support it at their 
own cost, and cause a 
play to be played hon¬ 
ourably and fittingly.” 
“The Bowyers and 
Fletchers to “play or 
cause to be played, a 
certain pageant on Cor¬ 
pus Christi Day of Ab¬ 
raham and Isaac,’ when 
the community on St. 
Mark’s Day consent that 
the pageants generally 
shall be played. 
1. Barbers’ ordinances 
require members to pay 
certain sums toward 
play. 
2. According to ordin¬ 
ances of barbers, codi¬ 
fied or written down in 
1414, their play was the 
Baptism of Christ by St. 
John. 
The tanners to “sus 
teyn and uphold forever 
—two torches of wax 
yerly and forever to be 
born in procession in 
the Feast of Corporis 
Christi.” 
According to ordin- 
a n c e s of Carpenters’ 
Gild the Resurrection 
was their play. 
Fines for neglecting 
pageants on Corpus 
Christi day. 
“Expenses of the 
Twelve Keepers on Cor¬ 
pus Christi day in gov¬ 
erning all the pageants 
passing through the 
whole town.” 
“To Master Thomas 
Bynham, Frier Preacher, 
for making! and com¬ 
posing the banns (Tes 
banes’) before the Cor¬ 
pus Christi play pro¬ 
claimed through the 
whole town, 4 May, 6S. 
8d. To the waits of the 
town, on the morrow of 
Ascension Day, riding 
with the said proclama¬ 
tion of Corpus Christi 
through the whole 
town, 20d.” 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
The procession seems 
to have been a settled 
yearly thing; it was 
necessary to vote on St. 
Mark’s Day to have the 
plays. 
Stage V. 
Stage I. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
