PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE JUSTICES gl 



monger, t innkeeper, miller, seller of salt, seller of oats, 

 of beer, of mead, of wine, tapster, | sellers of victuals 

 in general. There are many women among the brewers 

 and bakers. 



5. Unclassified. Carrying of doors and windows, bak- 

 ing of lime, carrying of iron, fisherman, huckster, lighter 

 of churches and houses, pedler,' seller of cartwheels, of 

 coal, of lime, of iron, sellers in general. 



6. Unidentified. Aquebanilatrix , chickkyn, mele- 

 maker, menbranator, netrix,^ schuppestre, seyner, sun- 

 yere, tentor.^ 



A few instances occur where the delinquents can 

 hardly be classed as manual labourers, e. g., chaplain, 

 clerk, crior, merchant, but include too few individuals to 

 be significant. 



It must be emphasized once again that my sources, 

 both the records of the sessions and the estreats of the 

 penalties, represent only a small proportion of the simi- 

 lar proceedings that were going on all over England, 

 and that the extracts in the appendix from which the 

 larger part of the above lists have been drawn represent 

 only a small part even of these sources ; this being the 

 case, it is clear that the justices were dealing with prac- 

 tically every variety of economic class as far as manual 

 labourers were concerned, but with very few individuals 

 above this class, and also that the increase in the price 

 of manual service of all kinds as well as in the price of 



*This translation given in the printed Wiltshire roll, 4, as a sugges- 

 tion merely, does not seem very probable. 



'Is this the feminine of "netus," a bondman, or is it connected with 

 " neo," to spin ? 



*I suspect that " caruce '" is understood. The printed Wiltshire roll 

 presents some interesting combinations of occupations; e. ^., collar- 

 maker and mower, carpenter and fisherman, merchant and fisherman. 



