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English Surnames

Note 318 — Chapter V · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION. (TOWN).

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A prayer to the Commons, in 1464, respecting the importation of foreign goods and merchandise, mentions ‘the makers of wollen cloth within this Reame, as Wevers, Fullers, Dyers, Kempsters, Carders, and Spynners.’ (Rot. Parl. Ed. IV.)

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