142 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
London. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
1477- 9. Littlehales, 
p. 81. 
1478- 81. Littlehales, 
p. 100. 
1487-88. Littlehales, 
p. 131. 
1489-90. Littlehales, 
p. 149. 
1491-2. Littlehales, 
p. 173. 
1519-20. Littlehales, 
p. 305. 
1523-24. Littlehales, 
p. 322. 
1524-25. Littlehales, 
p. 330. 
1648. Nichols, Grey 
Friars Chronicle. 
1554. Same, p. 89. 
1557. L. T. Smith, York 
Plays, p. LXIV. 
Content 
Garlands for proces¬ 
sion. 
Flags, garlands, 
torches for procession. 
Laten bells for cana- 
pye on Corpus Christi 
day. 
Children for the pro¬ 
cession. 
Roses for the proces¬ 
sion. 
Garlands for the pro¬ 
cession. 
Garlands for crosses 
and chair and for 
strangers who bore 
“eopis”. 
Bearing of crosses on 
Corpus Christi day. 
“This same yere was 
put downe alle goyng 
abrode of processyons,— 
and the skynners’ pro- 
cessyon on Corpus 
Christi day.” 
“Item the XXIIIj day 
of May was Corpus 
Christi day that some 
kepte holy day and some 
wolde not, and there 
was a joyner—he was in 
Smythfelde when the 
procession of sent 
Pulchers came by hym, 
and he wold a tane the 
sacrament from the 
prest.” 
Passion of Christ giv¬ 
en on Corpus Christi 
day. 
Interpretation 
See comment on pre¬ 
ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
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ceding. 
Conclusion: There is only one mention of a play on Corpus 
Christi day; so that it is difficult to connect it with the proces¬ 
sion, which seems to have been in charge of the individual 
churches, and of a religious gild, not of the crafts. 
