Is it truth that the Nursery Ryhmes of “Three Blind Mice” has dreadful meaning?
Henry VIII rebelled against Roman Catholicism when the Pope would not annul his marriage to Catherine of Arragon and he made England a Protestant country. However when his daughter Mary (daughter of Catherine of Arragon) became Queen after his death, she was a staunch Catholic and persecuted Protestants. She is also the subject of the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary, How does your garden grow?” which concerns her attempts to return England to Catholicism. To this end, she had almost three hundred religious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she became known as Bloody Mary. Mary I is the farmer’s wife in the rhyme, the farmer is her husband Phillip II of Spain (they owned considerable estates). The three blind mice were three of the Protestant bishops she had executed. Numerous Protestant leaders were executed in the so-called Marian Persecutions. The first to die were John Rogers (4 February 1555), Laurence Saunders (8 February 1555), Rowland Taylor (9 February 1555), and J
