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Armour Trades :—

Armourers*

Smiths.

Bowers and flecchers (fletchers)—(makers of
bows and arrows. Cf. fienchfleche).

Household Trades:—
Coopers.

Pewterers and founders.

Chaundlers (makers of candles and wax images).
Potters.
Culters.

Bucklemakers, sheathers, bladesmiths.
Drapers.
I^inenweavers.

Miscellaneous Trades:—

Goldsmiths.

Latoners (workers in the metal called latten).

Barber-surgeons (the mediaeval medical prac-
titioners).

Parchemeners and bookbinders.

Scriveners.

Writers of texts.

Ostlers (inn-holders).

Shipwrights.

Fishers and mariners.

Artist craftsmen of York supplied most of the
churches of the north of England with their
beautiful vessels, furniture, and ornaments. In
the workshops of the city, the metropolis of the
north, there were worked and made embroidered
vestments of all kinds, engraved chalices and vessels
of silver and of gold, and carved work, including
statues and images in stone, wood, and wax. Bells
were cast with beautiful lettering. Brasses for