 The suggestion has also been made that Jack and Jill represent Louis XVI of France , who was deposed and beheaded in 1793 ( lost his crown ) , and his Queen , Marie Antoinette ( who came tumbling after ) , a theory made difficult by the fact that the earliest printing of the rhyme pre @-@ dates those events . There is also a local belief that the rhyme records events in the village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697 . When a local spinster became pregnant , the putative father is said to have died from a rock fall and the woman died in childbirth soon after . 
 The suggestion <a href='been_done' title='1'><mark>has</mark></a> also been made that Jack and Jill represent Louis XVI of France , <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>was deposed and beheaded in 1793 ( lost his crown ) , and his Queen , Marie Antoinette ( who came tumbling after ) , a theory made difficult by the fact that the earliest printing of the rhyme <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>pre</mark></a> @-@ <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>dates</mark></a> those events . <a href='dey_it' title='5'><mark>There</mark></a> is also a local belief that the rhyme <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>records</mark></a> events in the village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697 . When a local spinster became pregnant , the putative father is said to <a href='been_done' title='7'><mark>have</mark></a> died from a rock fall and the woman died in childbirth soon after . 
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