"There were scaffolds erected for spectators in those places to which the successive pageants would be drawn; and a citizen who on the first day saw in any place the first pageant (that of the Fall of Lucifer), if he kept his place and returned to it in good time on each successive morning, would see the Scripture story, as thus told, pass in its right order before him. Each pageant was drawn on four or six wheels, and had a room in which the actors and properties were concealed, under the upper room or stage on which they played." Mr. Morley then describes the action of the various parts of the cycle, showing how clearly the lessons of the Old Testament history and its symbolic and typical meaning were pointed out so that the spectators could not miss them. {245} How completely the story of the Bible was told may be judged from the order of the Pageants of the Play of Corpus Christi, in the time of the mayoralty of William Alne, in the third year of the reign of King Henry V., compiled by Roger Burton, town clerk. 1. Tanners. God the Father Almighty creating and forming the heavens, angels and archangels, Lucifer and the angels that fell with him to hell. 2. Plasterers. God the Father, in his own substance, creating the earth and all which is therein, in the space of five days. 3. Cardmakers. God the Father creating Adam of the clay of the earth and making Eve of Adam's rib, and inspiring them with the breath of life. 4. Fullers. God forbidding Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of life. 5. Coopers. Adam and Eve and a tree betwixt them; the serpent deceiving them with apples; God speaking to them and cursing the serpent, and with a sword driving them out of paradise. 6. Armourers. Adam and Eve, an angel with a spade and distaff assigning them work. 7. Gaunters (Glovers). Abel and Cain offering victims in sacrifice. 8. Shipwrights. God warning Noah to make an Ark of floatable wood, 9. Pessoners (Fishmongers) and Mariners. Noah in the Ark, with his wife; the three sons of Noah with their wives; with divers animals. 10. Parchment-makers, Bookbinders. Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac, on an altar, a boy with wood and an angel. 11. Hosiers. Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness; King Pharaoh; eight Jews wondering and expecting. 12. Spicers. A Doctor declaring the sayings of the prophets of the future birth of Christ. Mary; an angel saluting her; Mary saluting Elizabeth. 13. Pewterers, Founders. Mary, Joseph wishing to put her away; an angel speaking to them that they go to Bethlehem. {246} 14. Tylers. Mary, Joseph, a midwife; the Child born, lying in a manger betwixt an ox and an ass, and an angel speaking to the shepherds, and to the players in the next pageant. 15. Chandlers. The shepherds talking together, the star in the East; an angel giving the shepherds the good tidings of the Child's birth.