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

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

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