Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plans

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Excerpt from Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plans: 1. The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, Re-Edited From the Edition of Thomas Sharp, 1825, And 2. The Weavers' Pageant, Re-Edited From the Manuscript of Robert Croo, 1534 Thomas sharp's first publication of.n1atter relating to the Coventry pageants was In 1817. The thin volume of 28 14 pages, large octavo, of which only 12 Copies were issued, has the following title-page The Pageant of the Sheremen and T aylors, in Coventry, as performed by them on the festival of Corpus Christi together with other pageants, exhibited on occasion of several royal visits to that city, and two specimens of ancient local poetry. Coventry - printed by IV. Reader, 1817. The text of the pageant differs but little from that Of the better known edition Of 1825, which was evidently printed from the same transcript. All variations except in the Spelling of insignificant words have been noted in the text of the pageant in the present volume. The remainder of Sharp's book is taken from the Leet Boole, 1 and is contained in Appendix except the two pieces of doggerel which relate to Laurence Saunders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.