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* Almoners: ensured the poor received alms.
* Atilliator: skilled
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castle worker who made crossbows.
* Baliff: in charge of allotting
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jobs to the peasants, building repair, and repair of tools used by the
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peasants.
* Barber: someone who cut hair. Also served as dentists,
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surgeons and blood-letters.
* Blacksmith: forged and sharpened tools
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and weapons, beat out dents in armor, made hinges for doors, and window
grills. Also referred to as Smiths.
* Bottler: in charge of the
buttery or bottlery.
* Butler: cared for the cellar and was in
charge of large butts and little butts (bottles) of wine and beer. Under
him a staff of people might consist of brewers, tapsters, cellarers,
dispensers, cupbearers and dapifer.
* Carder: someone who brushed
cloth during its manufacture.
* Carpenter: built flooring, roofing,
siege engines, furniture, panelling for rooms, and scaffoling for
building.
* Carters: workmen who brought wood and stone to the site
of a castle under construction.
* Castellan: resident owner or
person in charge of a castle (custodian).
* Chamberlain: responsible
for the great chamber and for the personal finances of the castellan. />* Chaplain: provided spirtual welfare for laborers and the castle
garrison. The duties might also include supervising building operations,
clerk, and keeping accounts. He also tended to the chapel.
* Clerk:
a person who checked material costs, wages, and kept accounts.
*
Constable: a person who took care (the governor or warden) of a castle in
the absence of the owner. This was sometimes bestowed upon a great baron
as an honor and some royal castles had hereditary constables.
*
Cook: roasted, broiled, and baked food in the fireplaces and ovens. />* Cottars: the lowest of the peasantry. Worked as swine-herds, prison
guards, and did odd jobs.
* Ditcher: worker who dug moats, vaults,
foundations and mines.
* Dyer: someone who dyed cloth in huge heated
vats during its manufacture.
* Ewerer: worker who brought and heated
water for the nobles.
* Falconer: highly skilled expert responsible
for the care and training of hawks for the sport of falconry.
*
Fuller: worker who shrinks & thickens cloth fibers through wetting &
beating the material.
* Glaziers: a person who cut and shaped glass.
* Gong Farmer: a latrine pit emptier.
* Hayward: someone who
tended the hedges.
* Herald: knights assistant and an expert advisor
on heraldry.
* Keeper of the Wardrobe: in charge of the tailors and
laundress.
* Knight: a professional soldier. This was achieved only
after long and arduous training which began in infancy.
* Laird:
minor baron or small landlord.
* Marshal: officer in charge of a
household is horses, carts, wagons, and containers. His staff included
farriers, grooms, carters, smiths and clerks. He also oversaw the
transporting of goods.
* Master Mason: responsible for the designing
and overseeing the building of a structure.
* Messengers: servants of
the lord who carried receipts, letters, and commodities.
* Miner:
skilled professional who dug tunnels for the purpose of undermining a
castle.
* Minstrels: part of of the castle staff who provided
entertainment in the form of singing and playing musical instruments. />* Porter: took care of the doors (janitor), particularly the main
entrance. Responsible for the guardrooms. The person also insured that no
one entered or left the castle withour permission. Also known as the
door-ward.
* Reeve: supervised the work on lord is property. He
checked that everyone began and stopped work on time, and insured nothing
was stolen. Senior officer of a borough.
* Sapper: an unskilled
person who dug a mine or approach tunnel.
* Scullions: responsible
for washing and cleaning in the kitchen.
* Shearmen: a person who
trimmed the cloth during its manufacture.
* Shoemaker: a craftsman
who made shoes. Known also as Cordwainers.
* Spinster: a name given
to a woman who earned her living spinning yarn. Later this was expanded
and any unmarried woman was called a spinster.
* Steward: took care
of the estate and domestic administration. Supervised the household and
events in the great hall. Also referred to as a Seneschal.
* Squire:
attained at the age of 14 while training as a knight. He would be assigned
to a knight to carry and care for the weapons and horse.
* Watchmen:
an official at the castle responsible for security. Assited by lookouts
(the garrison).
* Weaver: someone who cleaned and compacted cloth,
in association with the Walker and Fuller.
* Woodworkers: tradesmen
called Board-hewers who worked in the forest, producing joists and beams.