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Beverley. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
1441. Hist. Mss., p. 100. 
1442. Hist. Mss., p. 129. 
1446. Hist. Mss., p. 131, 
132. 
1449. Hist. Mss., 133. 
1449. Leach (2) p. 214. 
Chambers, II, 341. 
1460. Hist. Mss., 134. 
Leach (2), p. 216. 
Content 
Sadlers to play the 
pageant of the Creation 
of the World yearly on 
Corpus Christi day, 
whenever the 12 keepers 
of the town shall order 
plays. 
“Rob. Peterer et Th. 
Cowton moniti sunt ad 
exponendum in gratiam 
communitatis xls; pro 
eo quod ipsi non habue- 
runt lumen suum artis 
Piscatorum in proces- 
sione die Corpris Christi 
per festum ad Vincula 
Sancti Petri prox.” 
“ ‘Uxor Egidii Bokeler, 
smyth’, promised to pay 
‘solutio xld. annuatim 
Pistoribus quamdiu oc- 
cupaverit, xxd. ad ex¬ 
pen sas castelli Pistorum 
et luminis, et ad ex- 
pensas et costagia pag- 
endae cum ludi contig- 
erit xxd.’ ” 
“Ordinatum est per 
decern de xij—quod pag- 
endae ludi Corporis 
Christi assignentur in 
forma subscripta delud- 
endae hoc anno: viz., ad 
Barras Borialis; juxta 
Bulryng; inter Johan- 
nem Skipwith et Rober- 
tum Couke in Alta Via; 
apud Crossebrig; apud 
Fisch-m a r k e t: apud 
Mynstir bowe; et ad 
Torrentum. 
Expenses of Govern¬ 
ors, common clerk, and 
sergeant governing the 
pageants of the town on 
Corpus Christi through 
the whole day. “The 
play lasted only one day, 
and was given in 1449 at 
six stations.” Cham¬ 
bers, II, 341. 
Certain fishers “moniti 
sunt hie ad exponendum 
[etc.] xls. quia non ha- 
buerunt pagendam suam 
deludendam die Corporis 
Christi hoc anno secun¬ 
dum consuetudinem vil- 
lae—et transgr e s s i o 
pardonatur graciose sub 
hac condicione, quod 
praedicti Piscatores pa¬ 
gendam suam facient 
competenter in omnibus 
citra diem Dominicam in 
Ramis Palmarum proxi- 
mum futuram post da¬ 
tum praesentium.” | 
Interpretation 
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