Jack Sharp

Jack Sharp (died 1431), whose real name was William Perkins, was a weaver and town bailiff of Abingdon. In the spring of 1431 he put himself at the head of the Lollards of the southern midlands, circulating handbills as Jack Sharp of Wigmoreland that revived a scheme of 1410 to divert church endowments to secular uses.

The council offered a reward for his capture, and the regent Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, suppressed the movement. Sharp was seized at Oxford on 17 May 1431 and executed five days later, his head being set on London Bridge.