Whorwood was used both regularly and in emergency to enforce the law in his native county and elsewhere . He was a justice of the peace in Staffordshire . In April 1536 he was sent with John Hynde to help suppress a rising in Somerset and each received £ 50 " for executing of rebels in the west " . The following year he was sent to deal with the aftermath of the Lincolnshire Rising . He was also employed in the revenue courts , receiving very large payments for his advice . In 1540 he was made Attorney General , in succession to John Baker , although he and Baker continued to work together on many issues . In 1544 Whorwood was made a member of the court of surveyors at a salary of £ 6 13s .4 d . It was probably this connection that allowed him to buy a series of properties in the West Midlands
Lincolnshire Rising
Pilgrimage of Grace
William Whorwood