Everything Dick Whittington and the Pied Piper Have In Common

• Successful rat-catchers
• Late medieval period
• Association with mayors
• Streets named after them
• Negotiated significant deals with local government (restored City of London's liberties from the Crown; children for rats)
• Important encounter on hills (Koppelberg, Highgate)
• Luxury fabrics (traded in, wore in pied form)
• Famously childless

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