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DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
1450. Hist. Mss., 135. 
1450. Leach (2), p. 214. 
1451. Leach (2), p. 217. 
1452. Hist. Mss., p. 136. 
1452. Chambers, II, 340 
Leach (2), p. 216. 
1455. Hist. Mss., p. 89. 
1466. Leach (2), p. 216. 
Content 
Places for playing; 
Corpus Christi play as¬ 
signed. “In primis ad 
Barras Boriales. Item 
apud Bulryng. Item ad 
domum Johannis Skip- 
with. Item deinde apud 
Fischmarket. Item in¬ 
ter cer— (?) et eam- 
panam. Item ad monas- 
terium. Item ad Tor- 
rentem.” 
Expenses of Twelve 
Governors governing pa¬ 
geants. Governors con¬ 
tribute to craft of Skin¬ 
ners for their play on 
Corpus Christi day. 
Alderman of Skinners 
paid fine because he did 
not produce his play on 
Corpus Christi day. 
“Porters and Crelers 
inferius nominati moniti 
sunt praedicto die et 
anno quod habeant j 
pagendam de novo fac- 
tam ad ludendum super 
die Corporis Christi prox¬ 
imo futuro post datum 
praesentium seu festum 
annunc. B. M. V. prox. 
fut. sub poena forisfac- 
turae xls. ad usum com- 
munitatis. Rob. Thorn- 
s k e w, aldermannus, 
monitus est hie xvj. die 
Jun. ad exponendum vjs. 
viijd. eo quod lusores 
artis carpentariorum ne- 
sciebant ludum suum 
die Corporis Christi con¬ 
tra poenam proclama¬ 
tion^ communis cam- 
panatoris.” 
Fine on Henry Cow- 
per for not knowing his 
part in play (“nesciebat 
ludum suum’ ”) on Cor¬ 
pus Christi day. 
“ ‘Payntners, gold- 
smyths, masons and gla- 
sears.’—“To be one bro¬ 
therhood ‘and have 
yearly a pageant of 
Three Kings de Ce- 
lane.’ ” 
William Hoseham 
warned to put down 40s. 
“because the players of 
the pageant of the Dy¬ 
ers’ craft were not 
ready to play their pa¬ 
geant in the first place 
at the North Bar.” 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage Y. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
