hereunto they
do say he conveyd the devill. He ys moch sowzt for the agou. _If it be
your lordeschips pleasur, I schall sett that botyd ymage in a nother
place, and so do wyth other in other parties wher lyke seeking ys._"

In that extraordinary poem _The Fantassie of Idolatrie_, printed by Fox in
his edition of 1563, but not afterwards reprinted until it appeared in
Seeley's edition (vol. v. p. 406.), we read--

"To Maister John Shorne
That blessed man borne;
For the ague to him we apply,
Whiche jugeleth with a _bote_
I beschrewe his herte rote
That will truste him, and it be I."

The editor, Mr. Cattley, having explained _bote_ "a recompense or fee," Dr.
Maitland, in his _Remarks on Rev. S. R. Cattley's Defence of his Edition of
Fox's Martyrology_, p. 46., after making a reference to Nares, and quoting
his explanation, proceeds:

"The going on pilgrimage to St. John Shorne is incidentally mentioned
at pages 232. and 580. of the FOURTH volume of Fox, but in a way which
throws no light on the subject. The verse which I have quoted seems as
if there was some relic which was supposed to cure the ague, and by
which the juggle was carried on. Now another passage in this same fifth
volume, p. 468., leads me to believe that this relic really was, and
therefore the word 'bote' simply means, a boot. In this passage we
learn, that one of the causes of Robert Testwood's troyble was his
ridiculing the relics which were to be distributed to be borne by
various persons in a procession upon a relic Sunday. St. George's
dagger having been given to one Master Hake, Testwood said to Dr.
Clifton,--'Sir, Master Hake hath St. George's dagger. Now if he had his
horse, and St. Martin's cloak, and _Master John Shorne's boots_, with
King Harry's spurs and his hat, he might ride when he list.'"

That there is some legend connected with Master John Shorne and "his bote,
whereunto they do say he conveyd the devill," is evident from {388} a fact
we learn from the _Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute_, namely,
that at the meeting on the 5th Nov. 1847, the Rev. James Bulwer, of
Aylsham, Norfolk, sent a series of drawings exhibiting the curious painted
decorations of the rood screen in Cawston Church, Norfolk, amongst which
appears the singular saintly personage bearing a boot, from which issues a
demon. An inscription beneath the figures gives the name "