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 10 8. XI. JUKE 5, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CORPUS CHRISTI DAY.

(Continued from 10 S. ix. 481.)

THE ' Register of the Guild of Corpus Christ!' at York, 1408 to 1546, has been printed by the Surtees Soc., vol. Ivii. " The solemn play of Corpus Christi " was played on Wednesday, the vigil ; the procession was made on the day of the festival, with a gorgeous shrine, before which were borne ten large lights ; the master wore a silk cope ; the six chaplains were in surplices, and were preceded by six keepers holding white wands. The book gives many more details.

The variable portions of the mass " in festo Corporis Christi," York use, are given in ' Missale ad usum insignis Ecclesise Eboracensis,' i. 214-17, Surt. Soc., lix. The service for the procession in church, including one of the proses which begin " Salve, festa dies," is in the ' Manuale et Processionale,' Ixiii. 192.

1482. Richard Cely complained of a false report that his mother was going to marry again, and that she was to "go on preschesyon on Corpys Kyrste day in a cremsyn gown and hyr mayny in blake " (' Cely Papers,' Camd/ Soc., p. 106).

In 1536, on Corpus Christi Day, the King and Queen went to high mass at Westminster Abbey, in great state. The mitred abbots, the two archbishops, and all the bishops were present ; the Blessed Sacrament was carried by the Bishop of Chichester in cope and mitre, assisted by the sub-dean, under a canopy of cloth of gold, borne by four grooms of the Privy Chamber, attended by four others bearing staff-torches. The Earl of Sussex bore the sword, the Duke of Norfolk his golden staff, and the Lor^d Chancellor the Great Seal ; next came the peers, and then the Queen and her ladies. A full description is in ' Wriothesley's Chronicle,' i. 48 (Camd. Soc.),

In 1549 Sir John Arundel, in Devonshire, caused procession to be had upon Corpus Christi Day, and after procession the Com- munion according to the laws, and no mass C Troubles connected with Prayer Book,' Camd. Soc., p. 39).

1554. On Corpus Christi Day there were many goodly processions in many London parishes, with long torches garnished in the old fashion, and many canopies borne about the street (Machyn's ' Diary,' Camd. Soc., p. 63). In 1557 the King and Queen went in procession at Whitehall, through the hall and the great court gate, with goodly singing (p. 139). The accounts of

St. Margaret's, Westminster, for similar processions, 1553-4, are quoted on p. 400.

1664. It was ordered at Pontefract that the wrights, bowers, cowpers, patenners, turners, sawers, and sewers should bringf forth their pageant in Corpus Christi, a plav called ' Noe ' (R. Holmes, ' Pontefract Book of Entries,' 1882, pp. 373-4).

A procession of the Blessed Sacrament with an accompaniment of flutes, is noticed in Laborde's ' View of Spain,' 1809, v. 251.

From an early date down to 1830 Trinity law-term was reckoned by Corpus Christi Day (9 S. iii. 407; iv. 17).

Notes on the procession at the present day are given in F. Hamilton Jackson's ' Shores of the Adriatic, Austrian Side,' 1908, pp. 93, 97. W. C. B.

'ENGLANDS PARNASSUS,' 1600.

(See 10 S. ix. 341, 401 ; x. 4, 84, 182, 262 r 362, 444 ; xi. 4, 123, 204, 283, 383.)

IF it be assumed that no more cases of the intermingling of passages will be found, ' Englands Parnassus ' is now ascertained to consist of 2,339 quotations, of which 50 were unsigned, and the remainder found to- range under 56 different signatures. Of the signed quotations there remain 211 appa- rently untraced ; [but only 18 of the unsigned quotations still await identification, the other 32 having been traced to authors whose names are appended to passages in other parts of Allot's book.

Since I stated all the facts I knew con- cerning the " Content' ' poems in Nashe's edition of ' Astrophel and Stella,' I have come across confirmation of the accuracy of my view that these surreptitiously obtained poems were not written by the Earl of Oxford. In his edition of ' Th& Works of Thomas Campion,' in "The Muses' Library," Mr. Percival Vivian proves beyond doubt that they were written by Thomas Campion, although he was not, apparently, aware that they had been claimed for the Earl of Oxford on the strength of Allot's careless error.

The quotations, after allowing for all errors, are distributed as follows :

Achelly, T. 11 quotations, all untraced. One of these is mingled with a line from Lodge's ' Wits Miserie ' ; and another quotation from the same pamphlet is also wrongly credited to Achelly.

Baldwin, W. Not named in ' E.P.' ; but all extracts from his poems are included 1 under ' The Mirror for Magistrates.'