Certainly one does not find in London or in any English city those _mystères mimés_ or cyclical dumb-shows, with which the good people of Paris were wont to welcome kings, and which are clearly an adaptation of the ordinary miracle-play to the conditions of a royal entry with its scant time for long drawn-out dialogue. The earliest of these upon record was in 1313 when Philip IV entertained Edward II and Isabella. It is not quite clear whether this was a procession like the disguising called the _procession du renard_ which accompanied it, or a stationary dumb-show on pageants. But there is no doubt about the _moult piteux mystere de la Passion de Nostre Seigneur au vif_ given before Charles VI and Henry V after the treaty of Troyes in 1420, for this is said to have been on _eschaffaulx_ and to have been modelled on the bas-reliefs around the choir of Notre-Dame. Very similar must have been the _moult bel mystere du Vieil testament et du Nouvel_ which welcomed the duke of Bedford in 1424 and which _fut fait sans parler ne sans signer, comme ce feussent ymaiges enlevez contre ung mur_. _Sans parler_, again, was the _mystère_ which stood on an _eschaffault_ before the church of the Trinity when Henry VI was crowned, only a few weeks before the London reception already mentioned[515]. It may be added that in many provincial towns the pageants used at royal entries had a far closer affinity to the miracle-plays proper than was the case in London. The place most often honoured in this sort was Coventry. In 1456 came Queen Margaret and poor mad Henry VI. One John Wedurley of Leicester seems to have been employed to organize a magnificent entertainment. At Bablake gate, where stood a Jesse, the royal visitors were greeted by Isaiah and Jeremiah. Within the gate was a ‘pagent’ with Saint Edward the Confessor and St. John the Evangelist. On the conduit in Smithford Street were the four Cardinal Virtues. In the Cheaping were nine pageants for the Nine Worthies. At the cross there were angels, and wine flowed, and at another conduit hard by was St. Margaret ‘sleyng’ her dragon and a company of angels. The queen was so pleased that she returned next year for Corpus Christi day. It appears from the smiths’ accounts that the pageants used at the reception were those kept by the crafts for the plays. The smiths’ pageant was had out again in 1461, with Samson upon it, when Edward IV came after his coronation, and in 1474 when the young prince Edward came for St. George’s feast. The shows then represented King Richard II and his court, Patriarchs and Prophets, St. Edward the Confessor, the Three Kings of Cologne and St. George slaying the dragon. Prince Arthur, in 1498, saw the Nine Worthies, the Queen of Fortune, and, once more, Saint George. For Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon in 1511 there were three pageants: on one the ninefold hierarchy of angels, on another ‘divers beautiful damsels,’ on the third ‘a goodly stage play.’ The mercers’ pageant