146 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters . 
Norwich. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date Document 
1538. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXI. 
1539. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXI. 
1540. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXI. 
1541. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXI. 
1542. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXI. 
1546. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXIII, note. 
1546. Waterhouse, 
p. XXXI. 
1556. Chambers, II, 385. 
1558. Chambers, II, 389. 
Content 
Performance of Cor¬ 
pus Christi play. 
Performance of Cor¬ 
pus Christi play. 
Surveyors apparently 
^contracted for the per¬ 
formance of the plays. 
Plays apparently per¬ 
formed. 
Plays apparently per¬ 
formed. 
“ ‘Accordyngly were 
chosen 4 Aldermen & 8 
Comyners—; 2 Warde- 
yns & 2 Surveyors for 
settyng forth pe Pro¬ 
cession on Corpus Xi 
day, & for pe Pageant 
yf it go forth pe next 
year.’ ” 
After 1546 p lays 
waned. 
From 1556 on “ ‘Gryf- 
fon,’ ‘Angell,' and Pen- 
don’ of the Corpus 
Christi procession, with 
flowers, grocery, and 
fruit ‘to garnish ye tre 
wth’ &., appear alone 
in the accounts.” (Gro¬ 
cers’) 
Corpus Christi pro¬ 
cession mentioned in 
grocers’ records until 
1558. “They seem to 
have been represented 
by the ‘griffon’ from the 
top of their pageant, a 
banner with their arms, 
a crowned angel, and an 
emblematic tree ‘of fruit, 
and grocery.’ ” 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage I and Stage V. 
The procession and the 
plays seem to have been 
distinct. 
Stage II. It does not 
appear that the pa¬ 
geants had any connec¬ 
tion with this proces¬ 
sion. 
Does emblematic tree 
indicate a play in the 
procession? 
Conclusion: The plays and the procession during the period 
covered by the available documents seem to have been distinct. 
Both statements:—that plays were performed in the procession* 
and that the pageant wagons were drawn in it,—are mere con¬ 
jectures. 
