William Tailor

Family: London · Role: alderman · First appears: Henry VI 53

Life events

• 1422 · William Tailor was burned for following Wickliffe’s doctrine.(Henry V 37 · 📍 Smithfield at London)
  • “William Tailor a priest, and a master of art in Oxenford, a stedfast follower of Wickliffes doctrine, & burnt for the same in Smithfield at London, the second day of March, in the yeare of our Lord 1422, & last of king Henrie the fift his reigne.”
• c. 1458 · William Tailor was sent to Windsor Castle with others after the Fleet Street riot.(Henry VI 53 · 📍 Windsor castell)
  • “and William Tailor alderman of that ward, with manie other were sent to Windsor castell the seuenth of Maie.”

Henry VI 53

• enemies with Henry VI “For this fact the king committed the principall gouernours of Furniuals, Cliffords, and Barnards In to prison in the castell of Hertford; and William Tailor alderman of that ward, with manie other were sent to Windsor castell the seuenth of Maie.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.