ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY APOTHACARY - Willyam Davisse BAKER - Silvester [& Susan] Evylith, Thomas [& Hannah] Hawkins BARBER - BLACKSMITH - Thomas Clarke, George [& Barbara] Davisse, BRASYER - Henry Shrimpton BRICKLAYER - Richard Bulgar, Leonard [& Judith] Buttles BUTCHER - Willyam Cotton, COOPER - CURRYER - Nathaniell Bushopp CUTLER - GLASYR - Edmund Jacklyn GLOVER - James Johnson, HATTER - John Newgate, HUSBANDMAN - John Baker, |
JOYNER - Henry Allen, LABORER - Willyam Beamsley, Alexander Becke, Simon Birde, LETHERDRESSER - LABORER UPON LETTERS - MARRYNOR (seaman) - MERCER (dealer in textiles) - MERCHANT - John Checkley, MYLNER (milliner) - PARCHMENTMAKER - PLANTER - John [& Grace] Seaberry PLASTERER - John Arnould, PEUTERER - Samuel Grame ROPEMAKER -
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SALTMAKER - Willyam Philpott SHIPCARPENTER - SHIPMASTER - SCHOOL MASTER - SHOOMAKER / COBLAR - SLATER - STONE MASON - TALLOW CHANDLOR - TANNER (Leather dresser) - TAYLOR - THACKER (Thatcher / roofer) - WEAVER - Willyam [& Grace] Rickes, John Search WHEELEWRIGHT - WOOLEN DRAPER - Raph Hudson |
While Blacksmiths & such may require separate huts, much of the trades and crafts were carried out in the home setting where women & children were included.
The spelling of Early Modern English [17th century] can be indecipherable.
The following ‘translations’ are given for assistance:
Brasyer...one who works in brass...
[1503: a ‘crafter’ of Pewetarar (pewter) & Brassier (brass)]
Cooper...makes & repairs wooden barrels & casks formed of staves & hoops...
cyrryer...makes public announcements in the streets or marketplace of a town.
[Anglo-Norman: crior, criour, cryour.]
Cutler...makes or repairs knives & similar cutting utensils:
[...puts the knife together, handle & blade; in knyff & dagar as well.]
Glasyr...to glaze windows by the manufacture of glass...
Joyner...joins & connects wood, [i e, carpenter]
[c1620...Housewrights; joyners of smaller works.]
Laborer...manual, physical work...‘poor’ or unskilled work.
Letherdresser...animal skin prepared for use by tanning, or similar process.
[tannic acid is obtained from oak-galls.]
Husbandman...(farmer) tills & cultivates the soil, usually with a plow.
linning dray...linen draper. [OE - linen; Old Frisian - linnen, Old Saxon linin.]
Draper...a dealer or maker (weaves) woollen cloth. (See Woolen Draper.)
Marrynor...sailor
Shipwright...builder of boats, skifs, seagoing vessels.
Tallow Chandlor...candle maker.
Thatcker...covers roofs with thatch.
[May include corn, reeds or rye-straw thatch.]
Wheelwright...blacksmith.
thatch-wood...brushwood arranged as thatch
eaves - overhang of the roof of a building
ledger - a wooden rod laid across the thatch to hold it in place
eaves-knife - for cutting thatch at the eaves.
‘thack-pin or thack-prick’ used in fastening the thatch on a roof.
