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Beverley. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
Content 
Interpretation. 
1457. Hist. Mss., p. 68. 
Bev. Town Doc., 
p. 36. 
“The common bur¬ 
gesses of the town of 
Beverley in their Gild 
Hall assembled petition 
the venerable keepers 
or governors of the 
said town to have their 
plays yearly on Corpus 
Christi day as they 
were accustomed to 
have.” 
Date given as 1456 in 
Leach (2), p. 214. 
Stage V. 
1459. Hist. Mss., p. 139 
Leach (2), p. 217 
“Thomas Law, Aider- 
man artis carnificum 
Beverlaci, et alii con- 
fratres sui venerunt in 
Gil dam Aulam Bever¬ 
laci praedicti, et xls. 
monetae Angliae in gra- 
tiam communitatis po- 
suerunt pro eo quod 
cum lusoribus suis tarde 
venerunt ad portas Bo- 
riales. 
Beverlaci praedicti ad 
ludendum pagendam 
suam in festo Corporis 
Christi ultimo elapso.” 
Stage Y. 
1460. Leach (2), p. 215. 
Chambers, II, 339 
1465. Hist. Mss., p. 96. 
Twelve governors 
erect a scaffold for 
“ ‘sitting at the North 
Bar to see and govern 
the pageants.’ ” 
Stage V. 
1465. Hist. Mss., p. 96. 
“Every contributor of 
the said craft [Smiths] 
shall pay his Alderman 
yearly when the Cor¬ 
pus Christi play is 
played 4 d. to the main¬ 
tenance of the pageant, 
and every journeyman 
2 d.” 
“This article has ‘VacaV 
in an Elizabethan hand 
written against it.” 
Hist. Mss. ibid. 
Stage V. 
1467. Leach (2), p. 212. 
Regulations for sup¬ 
port of pageant. 
Stage V. 
1469. Chambers, II, 339. 
Same as above. 
Stage V. 
1469 Chambers, II, 339. 
Amounts paid by jour¬ 
neymen cappers towards 
support of pageant. 
Stage V. 
1475. Hist. Mss., p. 102. 
Cutlers, Braziers, and 
allied trades to have a 
torch in the Corpus 
Christi procession. 
Stage I. 
1475. Hist. Mss., p. 102. 
“Robert Rider, ‘Bra- 
ciar,’ Alderman, and 
William, Cardmaker and 
Robert Lovell, stewards 
of a certain pageant of 
the crucifixion of Christ 
accustomed to be played 
on Corpus Christi Day, 
because divers men of 
divers crafts who ought 
Stage V. 
