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ACATER - supplied food provisions, e.g. a ships chandler
ACCIPITRARY - falconer
ACCOMPTANT - accountant
ACCOUCHEUR / ACCOUCHEUS - assisted women in childbirth
ACCOUTREMENT MAKER / ACCOUTRE - supplier of military accessories
ACKERMAN / ACREMAN - ploughman, an oxherder
ACTUARY - kept public accounts of business
ADMINISTRATOR - directed the affairs of another
ADVERTISEMENT CONVEYANCER - sandwich board man
ADVOCATE DEPUTE - Scottish law officer who could act a public prosecutor
ADVOWEE - normally a nobleman, who had the right to present a clergyman to a benefice
AERONAUT - balloonist or a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls
AFFEEROR - official in the manorial courts who assessed the monetary penalty and also collected taxes and dues and were also called Assessor
AGISTER - official of the Royal Forests or in the New Forest it is the title for the one in charge of the ponies
ALABASTERER - worked with alabaster
ALBLASTERE - crossbow man
ALCHEMIST - medieval chemist who claimed to be able to turn base metals into gold
ALDERMAN - senior councillor one position down from Mayor in the local council
ALE-CONNER / ALE FOUNDER - official who tested quality and measure of ale served in public houses
ALE DRAPER - seller of ale
ALE TASTER - tested ale and beer for quality first recored in 1377 in London. Appointed by the Manor and forerunner of the Inspector for Weights & Measures
ALE TUNNER - employed by the brewery to fill ale casks (tuns} with ale
ALEWIFE - woman who keeps an alehouse or tavern
ALL SPICE - name for a grocer
ALMANAC MAN - official appointed by the Court of Sewers who warned the inhabitants of the Trent River area of higher than normal tides
ALMONER - gave out alms or charity to the poor on behalf of the parish
ALMSMAN - received alms
ALNAGER - official who examined the quality of woolen goods and stamped them with the town seal of approval
AMANUENSIS - secretary or stenographer
AMBER CUTTER - cut ambergris
AMBER & JET CUTTER - cut and polished amber for jewelry
AMBLER - officer of the Royal Stable who broke in horses
AMEN MAN - parish clerk
ANCHOR SMITH - made anchors
ANCHORESS - female hermit or religious recluse
ANCHORITE - male hermit or religious recluse
ANILEPMAN - smallholder (tenant of the manor)
ANGLE IRON SMITH - made angle iron ie. flat iron bars bent at right angles lengthways
ANKLE BEATER - young person who helped to drive the cattle to market
ANNATTO MAKER - worked in the manufacture of dyes for paint or printing
ANTIGROPELOS MAKER - made waterproof leggings
ANVIL SMITH - made anvils and hammers for blacksmiths
APIARIAN - beekeeper
APOTHECARY - prepared and sold medicines or drugs; pharmacist
APPARITOR - official who summoned witnesses in the ecclesiastical courts
APPRENTICE - was bound to a skilled worker for a specified time to learn a trade
APRONEER - term used in London for a shopkeeper
APRONMAN - mechanic
AQUARIUS (EWAR) - waterman
AQUAVITA SELLER - sold alcohol
ARCHIATOR - physician
ARCHIL MAKER - made a violet dye from lichens, used in the textile industry
ARKWRIGHT - skilled craftsman who produced "arks" (wooden chests or coffers)
ARMIGER - squire who carried the armour of a knight
ARMOURER - made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc.
ARTIFICER - highly respected skilled or artistic worker or craftsman or one that makes or contrives
ASHMAN - dustman
ASSAYER - determined the proportions of metal in ore
ASSAY MASTER - determined the amount of gold or silver to go in coins
AUGER MAKER - made the carpenters augers (used for boring holes in wood)
AULNAGER - see Alnager
AURIFABER - goldsmith
AVENATOR (PLANTIFENE) - hay and forage merchant
AVOWRY - term for the lord of the manor
AXEL TREE MAKER / AXEL TREE TURNER - made axels for coaches and wagons
BACKMAKER - made "backs", vats, tubs, a Cooper
BACKMANN / BACKSTER / BAXTER / BECK / BECKER - baker
BACK'US BOY - kitchen servant (from "back of the house")
BACK WASHER - employed to clean the wool in the worsted manufacturing industry
BADGER - licensed pauper who wore a badge with the letter P on it and could only work in a defined area (the term "Badgering comes from this"). A corn miller or dealer or an itinerant food trader
BADGY FIDDLER - boy trumpeter in the military
BAGMAN - travelling salesman
BAGNIOKEEPER - n charge of a bath house or brothel
BAILIFF / BAILIE / BAILLIE / BAILLEE - officer of the sheriff, a land steward acting on behalf of the Landowner or Landlord and in Scotland a magistrate of the burgh, also looked after the fishing rights on certain rivers
BAIRMAN / BAREMAN - pauper or beggar
BALER - bales hay and in the mills one who bailed wool or cotton goods
BALISTER - archer most commonly a crossbowman
BALLAST HEAVER - loaded ballast into the hold of empty ships
BALLARD MASTER - in charge of loading the ballast into the hold of empty ships
BALLER / BALLER UP - assisted the potter by measuring out the balls of clay
BAL MAIDEN - female mine worker who worked on the surface (also a Pit Brow Lass)
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