Pierson— The Corpus Christi Procession, 
149 
DOCUMENTS. 
York. 
Date Document 
Content 
Interpretation 
A 
“De uno tenemento, in 
In a hand of the 16th 
1376. —, p. 10. 
y 
quo tres pagine Corporis 
Christi ponunter, per 
annum—ij s.” 
or the 17th century. 
Stage Y. 
1378. L. T. Smith, 
p. XXXI. 
“The earliest notice of 
the Corpus Christi plays 
in York, yet found is in 
1378/’ 
Stage V. 
1388. Davies, p. 230. 
A 
“ ‘William de Selby, 
then Mayor, delivered 
to Stephen de Molton, 
100 shilling’s, which 
Master Thomas de Buk- 
ton had given for fur¬ 
nishing four torches to 
be burnt in the proces¬ 
sion on the feast of Cor¬ 
pus Christi.” 
Stage I. 
1390. —, p. 115. 
y 
Any craftsman who 
takes apprentice must 
pay toward pageant. 
Stage V. 
1394. p. 47. See also 
L. T. Smith, p. 
XXXII. 
Davies, p. 230. 
“Eodem die concorda- 
tum est quod omnes pa¬ 
gine Corporis Christi lu- 
dent in locis antiquitus 
assignatis et non alibi.” 
Stage V. 
1397. Davies, p. 230. 
L. T. Smith, p. 
XXXII. 
Richard II saw plays. 
Stage V. 
1399. Davies, p. 231, 232. 
Order of stations def¬ 
initely established, be¬ 
ginning at the gates of 
the priory of the Holy 
Trinity in Micklegate. 
The 10th station was 
the gates of St. Peter, 
the 11th, the end of 
Gyrdlergate in Peter- 
gate, and the 12th, the 
Pavement. 
Stage V. 
1399. Davies, p. 232. 
A 
—, p. 44. 
y 
Order made that all 
persons “as had—sum¬ 
mer garments of the 
worshipful men of the 
city should go with 
mayor and worshipful 
men on the feast of Cor¬ 
pus Christi, in proces¬ 
sion to the church of 
St. Peter and the hospi¬ 
tal of St. Leonard, and 
that they should have 
their torches borne and 
lighted before the pro¬ 
fession every year.” 
Stage I. The proces¬ 
sion and the plays ap¬ 
pear to have been con¬ 
nected in 1399, since the 
course of the two 
through the city seems 
to have been the same. 
