 225–7.In these he is accused of tyrannous conduct during his mayoralty of 1383–4, especially of beheading the cordwainer Constantyn for the riot in Cheapside, and of securing his re-election in 1384 by increased violence.Forbidding his opponents to take part in the election, he filled the Guildhall with armed men, who, at their approach, ""sailleront sur eux ove gũnt noise, criantz tuwez, tuwez, lour pursuivantz hydousement"."