JAME (saint). James the Greater, fl. first century A.D., was the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of John (Matthew 17:56). According to tradition, he preached Christianity in Spain and was put to death in A.D. 44 when he returned to Judaea. His most famous shrine is at Compostella, although the church has disputed the genuineness of the relics there. The shrine attracted many pilgrims during the Middle Ages, and in ecclesiastical art the saint is shown with the pilgrim's hat and scallop shell (NCE 7: 806). Jacobus de Voragine includes a Life of St. James in Legenda aurea, LXVII.

Alys of Bath has been to the shrine at Compostella, Gen Prol 466. "By seint Jame" appears as a rhyming tag, RvT 4264; WBP 312; FrT 1443; ShipT 355; HF II.885. The Clerk quotes from the Letter of St. James 1:13, ClT 1154; Dame Prudence quotes from James 1:5, Mel 1119; from James 1:4, Mel 1517. The quotation from James, Mel 1676, is from Seneca, Letter 94.46. Prudence quotes James 2:13, Mel 1869. The Parson quotes James 1:14, ParsT 348. [Senec]

Jame, the ME variant, occurs once medially, Gen Prol 466, and five times in final rhyming position as a rhyming tag.