ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the space which precedes the description of the Pinners' and Painters' pageant in the Ordo Paginarum contained the entry for the lost Millers' pageant, erased when the newly amalgamated Saucemakers', Tilemakers', Turners', Hairsters' and Bollers' and Millers' pageants became a single entry preceding the Shearmen's. The stanza pattern of the pageant is too irregular for the appearance of five-line stanzas amongst quatrains to prove interpolation, but the fact that the first of these lines contains no rhyme word does support Frampton's suggestion. The two lines are clearly dependent on each other so that if line 169 is an interpolation, then line 170 is as well. The case for rejecting the origin of the Towneley pageant in York, either on linguistic grounds or on any other which have so far been suggested, is a weak one. At York when the Millers' pageant was being played, it followed the taking of Christ to Calvary and preceded the Crucifixion.
