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THE COMPANIONAGE. 240 " manuscripts of the mystery of St Crispin and St Crepinian are in existence. One is in tlie Archives of the Empire .". .". published in print 1836, by Messieurs .". Chabailles & Dessales .•. date, commencement of the fifteenth century [it took four Many . . . . The first three days follow the legend pretty closely in the fourth the days to represent]. The subject thereof is the invention or authors have allowed their imaginations much licence. ; discovery of the bodies of the two masters. • . . . Messieurs Chabailles . & Dessales also say, the mystery of St Crispin and St Crepinian was singular in this respect, that instead of being acted by the brotherhood of the Passion like most of the other mysteries, it was represented by a special troop, a society of of their patron saints. Such was workmen who every year assembled in effect to celebrate the glory the usage of the Fraternity of Cordwainers of Paris." This it the earliest indication of the is must not be supposed that I important references, or o bf