PAGEANTS. 1. Mercers, Drapers, Creation of the World. Haberdashers. 2. Glasiers, Steyners, Helle carte. Screveners, Pchemyters, Carpenters, Gravers, Caryers, Colermakers Whelewrights. 3. Grocers, Raffemen, Paradyse. (Chandlers). 4. Shermen, Fullers, Abell and Cain. Thikwollenweavers, Covlightmakers, Masons, Lymebrenrs. 5. Bakers, Bruers, Inkepers, Noyse Shipp. Cooks, Millers, Vynteners, Coupers. 6. Taillors, Broderers, Reders, Abraham and Isaak. and Tylers. 7. Tanners, Coryors, Moises and Aaron with the Cordwainers. children of Irael, and Pharo with his Knyghts. 8. Smythes. Conflict of David and Golias. 9. Dyers, Calaunderers, The birth of Christ, with Goldsmythes, Goldbeters, Shepherds and three Kyngs of Saddlers, Pewterers and Brasyers. Colen. 10. Barbors, Wexchandlers, The Baptysme of Criste. Surgeons, Fisitians, Hardewaremen, Hatters, Cappers, Skynners, Glovers, Pynnmakers, Poyntemakers, Girdelers, Pursers, Bagmakers, “Scepps,” Wyredrawers, Cardmakers. 11. Bochers, The Resurrection. Fismongers,Watermen. 12. Worsted Wevers. The Holy Ghost. “These plays were performed on moveable stages constructed for the purpose, described by Dugdale as ‘theatres very large and high, placed on wheels;’ and Archdeacon Rogers, who died in 1595, and saw the Whitsun plays performed at Chester, gives a very minute description of the mode in which they were exhibited: ‘They were divided there into twenty-four pageants, according to the companies of the city; every company brought forth its _pageant_, which was the carriage or stage in which they played; these were wheeled about from street to street, exchanging with each other, and repeating their several plays in the different places appointed. The pageants, or carriages, were high places made like two rooms, one above the other, open at the top; the lower room was used as a dressing-room, the higher room was the performing place.” The first of the Norwich pageants, the Creation of the World, is similar to one described by Hone, as performed at Bamberg, in Germany, so late as 1783; and its details so precisely accord with the stage directions still extant of similar representations in this country, that it has been adopted as a fair specimen of the play alluded to in the list.