House ferme for ye Pageant, 2ˢ.’ The pageant went in 1535 and 1536. In 1537 it ‘went not at Wytsontyde,’ but went in October ‘in yᵉ Processyon for yᵉ Byrthe of Prynce Edward.’ From 1538 to 1546 it went, the assessment for pageant and procession being about 20_s._ to 30_s._ As to 1547 the record is not clear. Then there is a gap in the extracts, and from 1556 onwards the ‘Gryffon,’ ‘Angell,’ and ‘Pendon’ of the Corpus Christi procession, with flowers, grocery, and fruit ‘to garnish yᵉ tre wᵗʰ,’ &c., appear alone in the accounts. In 1559 was ‘no solemnite’ at all. In 1563 it was agreed that the pageant should be ‘preparyd ageynst yᵉ daye of Mʳ Davy his takyng of his charge of yᵉ Mayralltye,’ with a ‘devyce’ to be prepared by the surveyors at a cost of 6_s._ 8_d._ The play cannot have quite lapsed, for in 1565 a new version was written (cf. p. 425). It was apparently contemplated that it might be played either alone or in a cycle. To the same year belongs the following ‘_Inventory of yᵉ p’ticulars appartaynyng to yᵉ Company of yᵉ Grocers, a.d. 1565._ A Pageant, yᵗ is to saye, a Howse of Waynskott paynted and buylded on a Carte wᵗ fowre whelys. A square topp to sett over yᵉ sayde Howse. A Gryffon, gylte, wᵗ a fane to sette on yᵉ sayde toppe. A bygger Iron fane to sett on yᵉ ende of yᵉ Pageante. iiijˣˣ iij small Fanes belongyng to yᵉ same Pageante. A Rybbe colleryd Red. A cote & hosen wᵗ a bagg & capp for doloʳ, steyned. 2 cotes & a payre hosen for Eve, stayned. A cote & hosen for Adam, Steyned. A cote wᵗ hosen & tayle for yᵉ serpente, steyned, wᵗ a wᵗ heare. A cote of yellow buckram wᵗ yᵉ Grocers’ arms for yᵉ Pendon bearer. An Angell’s Cote & over hoses of Apis Skynns. 3 paynted clothes to hang abowte yᵉ Pageant. A face & heare for yᵉ Father. 2 hearys for Adam & Eve. 4 head stallis of brode Inkle wᵗʰ knopps & tassells. 6 Horsse Clothes, stayned, wᵗ knopps & tassells. Item, Weights, &c.’ There is a final memorandum that in 1570 the pageant was broken to pieces for six years ‘howse ferm’ due. There had been no ‘semblye nor metynge’ of the Company for eight years. The pageant had stood for six years in a ‘Gate howse,’ and then ‘at yᵉ Black Fryers brydge in open strete,’ where it became ‘so weather beaten, yᵗ yᵉ cheife parte was rotton[889].’ _Processions._ There were three notable annual processions at Norwich. (_a_) The _Corpus Christi_ Procession, in which the crafts were held to take part in 1489, and which appears, as above stated, in the Grocers’ records until 1558. They seem to have been represented by the ‘griffon’ from the top of their pageant, a banner with their arms, a crowned angel, and an emblematic ‘tree’ of fruit and grocery (possibly the ‘tree of knowledge’)[890]. (_b_) The Procession of the Guild of _St. Thomas à Becket_ on the day of his Translation (July 7) to his chapel in the wood. Here interludes were played[891].