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Conclusion: The order of the gilds in the craft plays is not 
the same as in the procession. Moreover, only stages I and V 
are represented at Beverley. The length of the plays (see entry 
1449) would preclude any connection with the procession. 
Therefore, the procession and the plays from 1377 on, seem to 
have been distinct. 
Bungay. 
DOCUMENTS. 
Date Document 
1514. Chambers, II, 343. 
Collectanea (L’Es- 
trange editor), 
p. 272. (original 
document in lat¬ 
ter). 
Content 
In 1514 certain per¬ 
sons “ ‘brake and threw 
down five pageants of 
the said inhabitants that 
is to saye, hevyn pagent, 
the pagent of all the 
world, Paradyse pagent, 
Bethelem pagent and 
helle pagent, the whyche 
wer ever wont tofore to 
be caryed abowt the 
seyd town upon the seyd 
daye in the honor of the 
blessyd Sacrement.’ ”. 
Interpretation 
“There were pageants 
also in the Corpus 
Christi processions at 
Bungay and at Bury St. 
Edmunds, but the no¬ 
tices are too fragmen¬ 
tary to permit of more 
than a conjecture as to 
whether they were ac¬ 
companied by plays.” 
Chambers, II, 162. 
In the absence of 
further material, I 
should assign this ref¬ 
erence to Stage III. 
Conclusion: The material is too fragmentary to be conclusive. 
Bury St. Edmunds. 
DOCUMENTS. 
Date Document 
Content 
Interpretation 
1477. 
Chambers, II, 343. 
Certain fines are to go 
to “ ‘the sustentacione 
and m,ayntenaunce of 
the payent of the As- 
sencione of oure Lord 
God and of the yiftys of 
the Holy Gost, as yt 
hath be customed of 
olde tyme owte of 
mynde yeerly to be had 
to the wurschepe of 
God, amongge other 
payenttes in the proces- 
sione in the feste of 
Corpus Xri.’ ” 
Notice Chamber’s com¬ 
ment under Bungay 
above. 
This may refer to the 
drawing of the pageant- 
wagons in the proces¬ 
sion (Stage VI), to 
Stage III, or to the pro¬ 
cessional nature of the 
cycle. 
Conclusion: The material for Bury St. Edmunds is too frag¬ 
mentary to be conclusive. 
