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DOCUMENTS—Continued. 
Date 
Document 
Content 
Interpretation 
Little Walsingham. 
1541. Archaelogical 
Proceedings. 
1847, p. 147. 
“ ‘To ye berar of ye 
dragon at Corpus Christi 
mes and this Gild time, 
4 d.’ ” (Gild of the An¬ 
nunciation.) 
■;W * : 
In the thirty-second 
year of Henry VIII, Gild 
of St. Mary was united 
with Gild of St. Anne 
and St. George. Arch- 
aelog. Pro., 1847, p. 145. 
This explains the dra¬ 
gon. The procession 
was apparently in the 
hands of a religious 
gild, not of the crafts. 
Reading. 
1509. Chambers, II, 392 
1512. Chambers, II, 392 
1539. Chambers, II, 392 
Corpus Christi proces¬ 
sion mentioned. 
Corpus Christi proces¬ 
sion mentioned. 
Corpus Christi proces¬ 
sion mentioned. 
Plays were given at 
various times during 
the year, but no men¬ 
tion has been found of 
plays at Corpus Christi. 
Chambers, II, 392. 
L. T. Smith in York 
plays, p. LXVI mentions 
Corpus Christi plays of 
Adam, Cayme. 
Kendal. 
1575. Chambers, II, 373 
Corpus Christi play 
by crafte established in 
1575. “pagiands off Cor¬ 
pus Xpi playe.’ ” 
The date of the estab¬ 
lishment of these plays 
is too late for them to 
have developed from the 
procession. 
1586. 
Chambers, II, 373 
Alderman forbidden 
“to give permission for 
the acting of the play 
in any year without the 
consent of his breth¬ 
ren.” 
Stage V. 
1612. 
Chambers, II, 373 
“Thomas H e y w o o d 
says in 1612, that, ‘to 
this day,’ Kendall holds 
the privilege of its fairs 
and other charters by 
yearly stage plays.” 
• 
Early in reign of James 
Chambers, II, 373 
Weever in 1631 speaks 
of Corpus Play which he 
saw at Kendalle “ ‘in 
the beginning of the 
raigne of King James.’” 
Chambers. II, 375. 
“A Corpus Christi play 
was acted within the 
lifetime of Weever who 
was born 1576, and 
wrote 1631.” 
Stage V. 
Louth. 
1616. 
Chambers, II, 383 
“An inventory of doc¬ 
uments in the rood-loft 
in 1516 includes the ’hole 
Regenall of Corpus Xii 
play.' 
Stage V. 
1558. 
Chambers, II, 383 
Corporation paid for a 
play ‘in the markit- 
stede on Corpus Xii 
day.’ 
From this reference 
the play seems to have 
been stationary. 
