Editing Jack-in-the-box (section)

==Origin==
A theory as to the origin of the jack-in-the-box is that it comes from the 14th-century [[Kingdom of England|English]] [[prelate]] [[John Schorne|Sir John Schorne]],<ref name="Vince2008" /> who is often pictured holding a [[boot]] with a [[devil]] in it. According to [[folklore]], he once cast the devil into a boot to protect the village of [[North Marston]] in [[Buckinghamshire]]. In French, a jack-in-the-box is called a "''diable en boîte''" (literally "devil in a box").  The phrase jack-in-the-box was first seen used in literature by John Foxe, in his book ''[[Foxe's Book of Martyrs|Actes and Monuments]]'', first published in 1563. There he used the term as an insult to describe a swindler who would cheat tradesmen by selling them empty boxes instead of what they actually purchased.<ref name="phrases.org" /> It also featured in the Chronicle of the Greyfriars of London in 1547 where it was noted as being used pejoratively to refer to the [[real presence of Christ in the Eucharist]]:<ref>{{cite book|title=Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558| chapter=Chapter Two - The Greyfriars Chronicle and the fate of London’s Franciscan community|author=Erler, Mary C.|isbn=9781139626576|year=2013|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/reading-and-writing-during-the-dissolution/greyfriars-chronicle-and-the-fate-of-londons-franciscan-community/}}</ref>
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|text=Also this same tyme was moche spekyng agayne the sacrament of the auter, that some callyd it Jacke of the boxe, with divers other shamfulle names|title=''[[Chronicle of the Greyfriars of London]]'' 
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