Pierson—The Corpus Christi Procession , 
157 
Date Document 
Durham. 
Longstaffe, in Aeliana. 
N. S., II, 59. 
Great Yarmouth. 
1388-9. Gross, I, 119, 
note. 
Leicester. 
1349-1350. Davidson, p. 
93. 
DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Content 
Also there was a 
goodly shrine in Sacte 
Nicholas church. or- 
deyned to be caryed ye 
sayd daie in Procession 
—wherin was enclosed 
the holy sacramt of 
thaulter and was caryed 
ye said daie with iiij 
preistes vp to ye place 
grene & all ye hole pros- 
sessio of all ye churches 
in ye said towne goyng 
before ytt and when it 
was a litle space wth in 
Wyndshole yett yt dyd 
stand still, then was 
Sacte Cuthb:. B a n n’ 
browghte fourth wth two 
goodly faire crosses to 
meete yt and ye por 
& covent wth all ye 
whole companye of ye 
Quere all in there best 
copes dyd meet ye said 
shrine sytting on there 
kneys and praynge. The 
prior did sence yt (fetch 
it, Cos.) and then cary- 
inge yt forward into the 
abbey church ye por and 
covent wth all the quere 
following yt.—all ye 
Bann’ of ye occupac’ons 
dyd followe ye saia 
shrine into ye church 
goyng Rownde about 
Saincte Cuthb: fereture 
lyghtinge there Torches 
& burning all ye s’vice 
tyme. Then yt was car¬ 
yed frome thence wth ye 
said p’ssessio of ye 
towne back againe to ye 
place from whence it 
came & all the Ban’p 
of ye occupac’ons fol¬ 
lowing it, & setting yt 
againe in ye church.” 
This procession was 
continued until about 
1770. 
Society of Corpus 
Christi maintained a 
light “ ‘circa Corpus 
Christi annuatim in die 
Corporis Christi.’ ” 
“The Gild of Corpus 
Christi of Leicester, 
which contributed to 
the most splendid pro¬ 
cession in the city ex¬ 
cept that of St. George.” 
Interpretation 
From a roll of 1600. 
Although the crafts 
carried banners in the 
procession, pageants ap¬ 
parently never devel¬ 
oped. 
Stage II. 
Cos. refers to Cosin’s 
MS. 
The crafts apparently 
were not concerned with 
the procession. 
The crafts apparently 
did not have charge of 
the procession. 
