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Little Jack Horner probably worked for Richard Whiting the steward to the Bishop of Glastonbury. He was in charge of the Bishop's accounts. Glastonbury was the largest, wealthiest abbey in England. In the 1530s Henry VIII set about the dissolution of the monsteries in England and Glastonbury was the last to go.

The Bishop sent his Steward, Richard Whiting, with a gift of twelve title deeds to various English manorial estates as a bribe. The deeds were 'baked in a pie' (a frequently used ruse to thwart thieves). Little Jack Horner thought that the bribe was useless and stole 'the plum' of the deeds, the deeds to the manor of Mells.Nevertheless the Bishop was convicted of treason for remaining loyal to Rome and the eleven remaining deeds were confiscated by the crown. The jury included the treacherous steward John Horner who found Bishop Whiting guilty and sending him to being hung, drawn and quartered on Glastonbury Tor. The Abbey was destroyed. Horner moved into the Manor of Mells which remained the property of the Horner family until the 20th century. The first publication of the Little Jack Horner rhyme was in 1725.

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