WALWORTH, SIR WILLIAM (d. 1385)

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WALWORTH, SIR WILLIAM (d. 1385) , lord mayor of London, belonged to a good Durham family. He was apprenticed to John Lovekyn, a member of the Fishmongers' Gild, and succeeded his master as alderman of Bridge ward in 1368, becoming sheriff in 1370 and lord mayor in 1374. He is said to have suppressed usury in the city during his term of office as mayor. His name frequently figures as advancing loans to the king, and he supported John of Gaunt, duke of

Lancaster

LANCASTER
LANCASTER,
HOUSE
- HOUSE
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  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF
LANCASTER, JOHN OF GAUNT
LANCASTER, JOSEPH (1778-1838)
LANCASTER, SIR JAMES (f1. 1591—1618)
THOMAS
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, EARL OF (c. 1277-1322)

, in the city, where there was a strong opposition to the king's uncle. His most famous exploit was his encounter with Wat Tyler in 1381, during his second term of office as lord mayor. In June of that year, when Tyler and his followers entered

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

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

knighthood

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. 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 History ... of St Michael, Crooked Lane, London . . . (1831); W. and R. Woodcock, Lives of Illustrious Lord Mayors (1846); an account of Wat Tyler's rebellion in a fragmentary chronicle printed by G. H. Trevelyan in the English Historical

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

(July 1898).

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