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Coventry. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
1459. Sharp, Dias., p. 160 
1461. Sharp, Dias., p. 79. 
1463. Sharp, Dias., p. 160. 
1469. Sharp, Disa., p. 21. 
1473. Sharp, Disa., p. 77. 
1476. Sharp, Dias., p. 164. 
1476. Sharp, Dias., p. 164. 
1477. Sharp, Diss., p. 164. 
1481. Sharp, Disa., p. 15. 
Chambers, II, 359. 
1485. Harris, Coventry, 
p. 288. 
1487. Sharp, Diss., p. 164. 
1487. Harris, p. 288. 
Content 
From Trinity Guild 
accounts—“Exp’s fact in 
festo Corpis XPi viz. ad 
iiijor Torchberers ad 
portend iiijor Tortices p 
tempus p cessional circa 
le Cowpe in quo continet 
Corp dni.” 
From Carpenters’ Ac¬ 
counts—“payd to pyn- 
ners & tylers for the 
page’t. 
“Itm to iiij torchber¬ 
ers in festo corp is XPi.’’ 
“It’ for iiij Jaked men 
about the parent.” 
“R’ Joh’e Thrumpton 
& Thoma Colyns custod- 
ibz de m cers p reddit de 
pagent house.” 
“It ffor hors hyre to 
Herod.” Smiths’ A c- 
counts. 
“ ‘Hit is ordened at 
this p’ sent leetq that 
ev-’y Crafte wt in this 
Cite com wt their pa- 
geaunts accordyng as 
hit haith byn of olde 
tyme and to com wt 
their p’ cessions & ri- 
dyngs also when the 
byn required by the 
Meir for the worship of 
the Cite in peyne of 
Xli.’ ” 
Payment for bearing 
of torches on Corpus 
Christi day. 
Contract for the rule 
of a pageant. 
Richard III saw the 
plays. 
Payment to torch- 
bearers and to minstrel 
on Corpus Christi day. 
Carpenters’ accounts. 
Henry YII saw the 
plays. 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
Stage I. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage VI. It appears 
that the person who 
played the part “of 
Herod in the Smiths’ 
pageant joined the Pro¬ 
cession.” Sharp, p. 164. 
The procession and 
the plays appear to 
have been separate in 
1476. 
Stage I. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. Mr. Cham¬ 
bers, (II, 358) and Mr. 
Poole, (p. 44) assign 
this item to 1486. 
Stage Y. 
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