Who started nursery rhymes?

Question

Who started nursery rhymes?

Answer 1

Nursery Rhymes were based on real people in the past. For example, Little Jack Horner was actually Thomas Horner, steward to the Abbot of Glastonbury during the reign of King Henry VIII. Rumor had ot that the inquisitive king would soon be reaching for some Glastonbury holdings. The nervous abbot, hoping to appease the royal appetite, sent the king a special gift - a pie containing 12 deeds to manor houses. On his way to London, the not-so-royal courier Horner stuck his thumb into the pie and extracted the deed for Mells manor, a plum piece of real estate, where his descendants live to this day.

There are too many to list here...Humpty Dumpty...Rock a-bye-baby...Ride a Cockhorse to Banbury Cross, etc.

Answer 2

mother goose?