130 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters, 
Coventry. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
1492. Sharp, Diss., p. 9. 
1493. Harris, p. 288. 
Chambers, II. 358. 
1494. Sharp, Diss., p. 81. 
1494. Sharp, Diss., p. 163. 
1494. Sharp, Diss., p. 79. 
1494. Harris, p. 292. 
1494. Poole, p. 40. 
1494. Sharp, Diss., p. 10. 
1496. Sharp, Diss., p. 10. 
1497. Sharp. Diss., p. 20, 
note. 
Content 
Chandlers and Cooks 
are to contribute to the 
support of the Smiths’ 
pageant. 
Henry VII saw plays. 
Butchers agree to help 
“Whittawers” to sup¬ 
port their pageant. 
Mention of torch bear¬ 
ers on Corpus Christi 
day. 
Dyers’ Accounts. 
Carpenters ask for 
help since they are 
charged “with a Pag- 
iant, kepyng wacehes”, 
etc. 
Dyers refuse to have 
pageant. 
Mayor and council to 
help those overburdened 
with pageants by unions 
of crafts. 
Inhabitants of Gosse- 
ford Street ask to have 
pageants stand at the 
place there. 
Cardmakers ask that 
the craft of Skinners 
and Barkers may pay 
towards the charge of 
their Pageants. 
“Wrights,” “Tylers,” 
and “Pynners” ask for 
help in supporting pag¬ 
eant. 
“Cappers” and “Pull¬ 
ers” are to help “Gird- 
lers” in supporting 
their pageant. 
“ ‘It’m for the horss- 
yng of the padgeant.’ ” 
Interpretation 
Stage VI. See com¬ 
ment on entry 1476. This 
does not necessarily re¬ 
fer to the Corpus Christi 
procession. These two 
references to Herod’s 
riding in the procession 
are the only ones of 
their kind that have 
been found. 
Note that this does 
not necessarily mean 
that the plays developed 
from the procession. 
Stage V. 
Mr. Poole, p. 44 gives 
this date as 1492. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage I. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
1489. Sharp, Diss., p. 167. 
Craig, p. XVII. 
Chambers, II, 363. 
“It’ payd ffor Aroddes 
garment peynttyng pt 
he went a p’ssayon in.” 
