120 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 
Beverley. 
Date Document 
1485. Hist. Mss., p. 103. 
1491. Hist. Mss., p. 103. 
1493. Hist. Mss., p. 100. 
1493. Bev. Town Doc., 
p. 99, p. 101. 
1493. Chambers, II, 340. 
1494. Hist. Mss., p. 101. 
1498. Hist. Mss., p. 68. 
Bev. Town Doc., 
p. 68. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Content 
to contribute to the 
playing and mainten¬ 
ance of the said pa¬ 
geant have refused and 
refuse, to do so; There¬ 
fore they made the or¬ 
dinances — underwrit¬ 
ten— 
First, that all cutlers, 
Furberors, Plumbers, 
Braziers, Cardmakers. 
and Pewterers (icritten 
in a different hand “and 
Pynners”) in the liberty 
of Beverly there should 
be one Brotherhood, and 
that they and each of 
them should support the 
charge of the said pa¬ 
geant, and should per¬ 
form and cause the 
same to be played for 
ever.” 
f. 79 headed—“Their 
Play the ‘Redemption of 
Adam and Eve, called 
le Coke Pageant.’ ” 
Millers’ Ordinances, 
1491. “Pageant of the 
Resurrection of Laz¬ 
arus.” 
“Every maker of ‘lade 
sadvll panels’ to pay to 
maintenance of play and 
light 8 d. a year.” 
Drapers to play 
‘Dooming Pilate’ when¬ 
ever plays are given. 
Regulations on support 
of Corpus Christi play. 
The play of the Drap¬ 
ers and Mercers divided, 
Drapers taking ‘Demyng 
Pylate’ and Mercers 
‘Blak Herod.’ 
Journeymen to pay 
toward expenses of Cor¬ 
pus Christi play when it 
is played. 
“ ‘Allso it is ordande by 
the forsayde xij Gover¬ 
nors—that the forsayde 
xij for tyme beyng shall 
go yerly in processyon 
on. Corpus Christi day, or 
on the morue after, as 
itt shall happen, afore 
all the aldermen; and 
evere man of the other 
two bynks [benches] 
to go with there aider- 
man of ther occupacyon 
in thar clothyng belong- 
yng to thar brodyr- 
hed.’ ” 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage I. Note that 
the day of the proces¬ 
sion is variable. This 
suggests that there was 1 
no connection between 
the plays given on Cor¬ 
pus Christi day and the 
Corpus Christi proces¬ 
sion. 
