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______ or papyrus plants (Lower {NILE>). - Shawn C. Knight ------------------------------------------------------------ https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-horner/

<<"Little [I]ack [HORNER]" was in fact [TH]omas [HORNER], the steward of Abbot Whiting of Glastonbury. The story goes that the abbot had sent Horner on a mission to see King Henry VIII in London, the aim of which was to try to save Glastonbury Abbey from
being dissolved. Feeling hungry on the journey, Horner, who had been sent on his way with a <PIE>, decided to eat a piece of it. To his surprise instead of pulling out the mince filling he pulled out a deed to one of Glastonbury’s smaller properties.
On examining the contents of the <PIE> he found a further eleven deeds concealed inside. Keeping the first deed, he delivered the other papers to the king. The abbot was caught in a no-win situation as he could not accuse Horner of theft because then he
would have to openly admit to trying to bribe the king giving Henry an easy excuse to charge the abbot with corruption. Horner gained the deeds to the estate of Mells {MANOR} in Somerset where his descendants lived until the beginning of the 20th century.

“Take a Legge of Mutton, and cut the best of the flesh from the bone, and parboyl it well then put to it three-pound of the best Mutton suet and shred
it very small; then spread it abroad, and fashion it with Salt Cloves and Mace”

The quote above is taken from a 1615 recipe for mince <PIES>. The recipe goes on to instruct the reader to place the mixture in a coffin or divers coffin before baking. The coffin is in fact a dough crust in the shape of a basket or box which was several
inches thick and had been cooked for several hours. The coffin was inedible and acted as a container and cooking vessel to keep the meat tender by preventing the juice meat dripping away. Due to the sturdy nature of the <PIES>, people often hid valuable
objects such as jewellery, money and important papers in them to stop their possessions falling into the hands of robbers. Therefore it is highly plausible that the deeds to the Glastonbury properties would have been hidden in a mince-pie.

It is also interesting to note that mince <PIES> were considered
symbols of Catholic idolatry and were banned under Oliver Cromwell.>> ------------------------------------------------------------
. . . F.F. : To the great Variety of Readers.

. . . . {And if then you doe not like him},
surely you are in some manifest dange[R], not to vnderstand him.
And so w[E] leaue you to other of his Frie[N]ds, whom if you need,
can bee you[R] guides: if you neede them not, y[O]u can leade
your selues, and ot[H]ers. And such Readers we wish h[I]m.

Iohn Heminge.
Henrie Condell.
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[I.HORNER] -25 : Prob. at end ~1 in 14,000 ------------------------------------------------------------ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Horner

<<"Little [I]ack [HORNER]" is actually about [THo]mas [HORNER], who was steward to Richard Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury before the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII of England. It is asserted that, prior to the abbey's destruction,
the abbot sent Horner to London with a huge Christmas <PIE> which had the deeds to a dozen {MANORS} hidden within it as a gift to try to convince the King not to nationalise Church lands. During the journey Horner opened the <PIE> and extracted the
deeds of the {MANOR} of Mells in Somerset, which he kept for himself. It is further suggested that, since the {MANOR} properties included lead mines in the Mendip Hills, the plum is a pun on the Latin plumbum, for lead. While records do indicate that
Thomas Horner became the owner of the {MANOR}, both his descendants and subsequent owners of Mells {MANOR} have asserted that the legend is untrue and that Wells purchased the deed from the abbey.>>
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. I put in my thumb,
. And pulled out a plum,
. And said, "What a good boy am I!" ------------------------------------------------
. . . . . . Sonnet 37
.
. AS a decrepit father takes delight,
. To see his actiue childe do deeds of youth,
. So I, made lame by Fortunes dearest spight
. Take all my comfort of thy *WORTH and TRUTH*.
.
. For whether beauty, b[I]rth, or weal[TH, o]r wit,
. Or any [O]f these all, o[R] all, or more
. I[N]titled in th[E]ir parts, do c[R]owned sit,
. I make my loue ingrafted to this store: .........................................
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. e a u t y, b [I] r .t h,o
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[I.HORNER] 10 : Prob. in any Sonnet ~ 1 in 70 ..............................................
. So then I am not lame, poore, nor dispis'd,
. Whilst that this shadow doth such substance giue,
. That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,
. And by a part of all thy glory liue:
.
. Looke what is best, that best I wish in thee,
. This wish I haue, then ten times happy me. --------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer

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