Henry Maleverer

Sir Henry Maleverer, generally called Henry of Cornhill, was a grocer in the times of King Henry IV of England. He was a crusader, and was appointed by The King of Jerusalem as the guardian of “Jacob's well.”^[1] His life was documented as a famous Londoner who in Nine Worthies of London by Richard Johnson in 1592.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Brewer, E. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Wordsworth, 2001, p. 1150
2. ↑ Hibbert, Christopher (Editor) The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition), Pan Macmillian, 2011. p.589