152 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 
York. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date 
Document 
1478. Davies, (18 Ed. 
IV), p. 75 ff. 
Content 
1478. Davies, p. 18, 63, 
65. (18 Ed. IV.) 
1479-1480. Surtees, CXX. 
135. 
1483-1484. Hist. Mss., I, 
108. 
1485. Surtees, CXX, 186 
1490. Surtees, CXX, 201 
Same, p. 202. 
1493. L. T. Smith, York 
Plays, p. XLI. 
1493. Davies, p. 257. 
“And in expenses in¬ 
curred this year by the 
mayor, aldermen, and* ? 
many others of the 
council of the chamber 
at the Feast of Corpus 
Christi, seeing - and di¬ 
recting the play in the 
house of Nicholas 
Bewyk, according to 
custom—and 3s. 4d. paid 
to one preaching and 
delivering a sermon on 
the morrow of the said 
feast, in the cathedral 
church of St. Peter of 
York, after the celebra¬ 
tion of the procession.” 
Paid for banner for 
Corpus Christi play. 
Paid for repair of ban¬ 
ners of Corpus Christi 
play. 
Certain fines in crafts 
of cutlers and blade- 
smiths to go to support 
of their pageants. 
Innholders contract 
for a space of eight 
years following to bring 
forth yearly their pa¬ 
geant of the Coronation 
of Our Lady. 
Those who shall con¬ 
tribute to pageant of 
girdlers enumerated. 
Certain fines in craft 
or ironmongers to go 
to support of pageant. 
Those who are to as¬ 
sist ironmongers in sup¬ 
porting pageant named. 
The pageant of the 
ironmongers needs re¬ 
pairs. 
All the masters of the 
craft of the “Spuriers 
and Lorymers” “ ‘shall 
attend vppon yer pai- 
aunt’ ” from the begin¬ 
ning of the play to the 
end. 
Award to craft of 
cordwainers that “ ‘when 
the procession were sol- 
empnely done the mor- 
owe next after Corpus 
Xpi day, to bere their 
torches- honestly made 
and lighted with the 
craft of the weavers 
and going of the weav¬ 
ers’ left handes, as had 
been there afore acus- 
tomed.’ ” 
Interpretation 
Stage V. 
This quotation shows 
that in 1478 procession 
and plays were distinct. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
Stage V. 
In 1493, the plays and 
the procession w«re sep¬ 
arate. 
