ABSTRACT
The list of the pageants of the York Corpus Christi play known as the Ordo Paginarum is a more complicated document than is normally indicated by those who refer to it. When Lucy Toulmin Smith printed it in the Introduction to her edition of the York play, she rightly observed that 'the side for the names of the crafts is found to be full of alterations, erasures, and new writing, of differing dates, evidently made to correct the list to the changes among the crafts.' The chapter is concerned with one of those entries, the pageant which in the Ordo is allocated to the Tilemakers, Millers, Ropers, Sievers, Turners, Bollers and Hairsters. The pageant described contains an apparently extensive condemnation which sounds remarkably like that in the still-existing pageant in the York Register. There is also flagellation and crowning with thorns and casting lots for Christ's garments.
