"Pope Joan" is an English country dance in cut time and G minor. It appears in Playford's Dancing Master 9th Ed. (1695) and Walsh's The Dancing-Master (1709). Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus; 855–857) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned as pope for a few years during the Middle Ages. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 13th century and subsequently spread throughout Europe. The story was widely believed for centuries, but most modern scholars regard it as fictional since Pope Leo IV died in 855 and Benedict III was immediately elected, leaving no possibility of an interregnum between them. Pope Joan supposedly reigned as John VIII but the historical Pope John VIII reigned from 872 to 882. I have not found any description coupled with a tune file for this tune. It was also printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1985).