136 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
H&reford. 
DOCUMENTS. 
Date. Document. 
[1500 to 1520?] Hist. 
Mss., XIII, pt. 4, 
p. 304. 
1503. Hist. Mss., XIII, 
pt. 4, p. 288, 9. 
1549. Hist. Mss., XIII, 
part 4, p. 305. 
Devlin, p. 65. 
Content. 
“ ‘To the ryght wor- 
shypeful mayer of the 
cytey of Herefford and 
to hys bretherne. She- 
wythe unto your good 
mastershippes your um- 
ble orators the persons 
subscribed beyng jour- 
nemen of th’ occupacion 
of corvesers within this 
cytey have obtayned of 
your mastershippes pre¬ 
decessors mayers and 
aldermen of the seyd 
cytey a composysyon 
whereby your sayd ora¬ 
tors were bound to 
bryng furth certen 
torches in the proces¬ 
sion on the day of Cor¬ 
pus Christi yerelye’ ”—. 
“ ‘The paiants for the 
procession of Corpus 
Christi 
Furst, Glovers—Adam, 
Eve. (Jayne and Abell 
(.erased). 
Eldest Seriant—Cayne, 
Abell, and Moysey, Aron, 
Carpenters—Noye ship. 
Chaundelers— Abra¬ 
ham, Isack, Moysey. 
Bakers—Knyghtes in 
harnes. 
Journeymen Cappers 
—Seynt Keterina with 
tres(?) tormentors!” 
“ ‘fforasmuche as ther 
was before thys tyme 
Dyvers corporacions of 
Artiffycers, craftes, and 
occupacions in the sayd 
cytty who were bounde 
by the grante of their 
corporacions yerelye to 
bryng fforth and sett 
forward Dyvers pa- 
geauntts of Auncyentt 
historyes in the proces¬ 
sions in the sayde cytty 
upon the Day and ffeast 
of Corpus Xti [—], 
which nowe ys and are 
omytted and surceased, 
whereof it ys Agreed, 
condescended, and gran¬ 
ted that all and everye 
of the sayd craftes and 
corporacions shall in 
stede and place of the 
settynge fforthe of the 
sayd pageauntts on the 
sayd daye or ffeast of 
Corpes Xti, yerely con- 
sente to pay att the 
ffeaste of the Annuncy- 
acion—one Annuyte—to 
the vse—of the sayd 
ctey.’ ” 
Interpretation. 
Stage I. 
“The 1503 list seems 
to concern a dumb show 
only.” Chambers, II, 
368. 
Stage III. 
Stage III or Stage IV. 
