NOTES AND QUERIES.
[12 8. I. JAN. 1, 1916.
-of Spetchley Park, Worcester. Though not
faultlessly transcribed, the Spetchley ver-
sion is decidedly better than that in the
Sloane MS., and enables the lacuna? in the
latter, as printed by Dr. Sparrow Simpson,
to be filled up with some degree of certainty .
The following are the two versions, (a) that
from the Spetchley MS., and (b) the Sloane
version, printed side by side :
(a)
Prose of B. John Shorne.
A ffare prayer of
Mr. John Shorne
for y- Asces .
Aue gemma curatorum Ave gemma curatorum
O iohannes flosdoctorum O Johannesflosdoctorum
rector de merstonia de Marstonia
Aue lux predicatorum Ave lux predycat-orum vas virtutum via morum Vas vertutum via morum ducenjs] ad celestia Ducens ad celestea
Aue pater clericorum Ave pater clerecorum exemplar presbiterorum Exempler presbiterorum in carnis mundicia Jn carnis mundicia
Aue censors angelorum
contemplator superno-
rum et vincens demon ia
Aue salus infirmorum
medecina ve xatorum
febrium molestia
Aue lumen oculorum
liberator languidorum
dencium angustia
Aue cum miraculorum rediuiuus vos tuorum proferb testimonia
Ave consors angelorum
Contemplator superno-
rum
Et vincens demonea
Ave salus infermorum Medycina vexatorum Febrefum] modestia
Ave lumen occulorum
Liberator languidorum
Dencium angustia
Ave ccum meraculorum
Rediviuens bos tuorum
Profart testimonia
Aue tu qui es cunctorum Ave dnu puerorum
suscitator submersorum Suscitator subversorum
per tua suffragia Per tua stiff ragia
Aue diuini puerorum \ Ave tu que sunt in tris- consolator miserorum ticia
qui sunt in tristicia
Aue cmx peregrinorum
csto due tor via to rum
ad superna gaudia.
Ora pro nobis sacerdos Christ i Johannes :
Ave dux peregrinorum
Esto doctor viatorum
Ad superna caudia.
V. Ora pro nobis, beate sacerdos Christi, Jc - hannes.
que a sacro Patre filio
tuoque regie vertutis
verbi tui febris f ugare
voluisti, concede pro-
pecius cunctis febre-
tantybus dcuotyssime
sacerdoles tui Johan-
nes me me ream facien-
tibus ut sit placitum
tue pietate eos am-
plyius vexandi non
habeant potestatem.
Qui cum Patre et S.,
&c.
I"t nos a cunctis febri- R. Ut a cunctis febre-
b us bus d ef endat nos gracia
- def endat gratia Christi. Christi.
Oremus.
Domine Jesu Christi fili Oracio. Domine Jesu
dei viui qui a socru Christe, fili Dei vivi,
Petri filio quoque
reguli virtute verbi
tui febres fugare vol- uisti concede propicius
cunctis febricitantibus
deuotissimi sacerdotis
tui Johannis memor-
iam facientibus ut si
sit placitum tue pietati
eos amplius vexandi
non habeant febres po- testatem. Qui cum
Deo Patre et Spiritu
Sancto viuis et regnas
Deus per omnia secula
seculorum. Amen.
A comparison of the two versions shows that the Spetchley MS. is much better than the Sloane copy, though it is not altogether free from the mistakes of an ignorant copyist. In stanza 7 the "vos" of the former should evidently be " bos " ; but the ninth stanza (Spetchley) and eighth (Sloane) offer most difficulty. The MS. leaves no doubt as to the word " divini " ; but this is obviously incorrect. " Dnu " (in the same place in the Sloane MS.) was read by Dr. Sparrow Simpson as " domnus," which seems equally unlikely. Mr. Herbert (of the Department of MSS., British Museum) suggests that in both places the original word was " dulcis," which became corrupted by a succession of ignorant scribes. The Spetchley MS. enables us to make sense of the absurdities of the last stanza and the collect as given in the Sloane MS. Con- sidering the extreme rarity of local offices in England, it is satisfactory to possess this record of the popular devotion to Sir John Schorne in a fairly complete and accurate form.
As some confusion exists with regard to the representations of the famous miracle of the devil and the boot, it may be of interest to give a list, corrected by personal inquiry, of paintings which are still extant. Sir John Schorne figures on the following rood- screens :
Alphington, Devon; Cawston, Norfolk ; Gateley, Norfolk; Suffield, Norfolk; Wol- borough, Devon.
According to F. B. Bond and B. Camm's ' Rood-screens and Rood-lofts ' (1909), ii. 238, the saint's figure also occurs on screens at Portlemouth (Devon) ; Barton Turf, Biii- ham Abbey, Litcham, and Ludham all in Norfolk. The Portlemouth and Litcham figures are so much effaced that it requires a good deal of imagination to see a representa- tion of Sir John Schorne in them ; at
