Note 776 — Chapter X · THE MUMMERS’ PLAY
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Harris, 97, 190, 277; Kelly, 41. The guild was formed by journeymen in 1424. Probably there was a riding. In any case, at the visit of Prince Edward in 1474, there was a pageant or mystère mimé ‘upon the Conddite in the Crosse Chepyng’ of ‘seint George armed and Kynges doughtr knelyng afore hym wt a lambe and the fader and the moder beyng in a toure a boven beholdyng seint George savyng their doughtr from the dragon.’ There was a similar pageant at the visit of Prince Arthur in 1498.