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SIR WILLIAM WALWORTH (d. 1385)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 302 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR WILLIAM WALWORTH (d. 1385)  , lord mayor of
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London, belonged to a good Durham
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family . He was apprenticed to John Lovekyn, a member of the Fishmongers' Gild, and succeeded his master as alderman of
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Bridge ward in 1368, becoming
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sheriff in 1370 and lord mayor in 1374 . He is said to have suppressed
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usury in the city during his
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term of office as mayor . His name frequently figures as advancing loans to the king, and he supported John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, in the city, where there was a strong opposition to the king's
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uncle . His most famous exploit was his encounter with Wat Tyler in 1381, during his second term of office as lord mayor . In
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June of that
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year, when Tyler and his followers entered south London, Walworth defended London Bridge against them; he was with Richard II. when he met the insurgents at Smithfield, and assisted in slaying their leader (see TYLER, WAT), after-wards raising the city bodyguard in the king's defence; for which service he was rewarded by
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knighthood and a pension . He subsequently served on two commissions to restore the peace in the county of Kent . He died in 1385, and was buried in the church of St Michael, Crooked Lane, of which he was a considerable benefactor .
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Sir William Walworth was the most distinguished member of the Fishmongers' Gild, and he invariably figured in the pageants prepared by them when one of their members attained the mayoralty . He became a favourite hero in popular tales, and appeared in Richard Johnson's Nine Worthies of London in 1592 . See William Herbert, The
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History ... of St Michael, Crooked Lane, London . . .

(1831); W. and R .

Woodcock, Lives of Illustrious Lord Mayors (1846); an account of Wat Tyler's
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rebellion in a fragmentary chronicle printed by G . H . Trevelyan in the
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English
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Historical Review (
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July 1898) .

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