| 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. Resonsible 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's 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. Other medieval jobs included: tanners, soap makers, cask makers, cloth makers, candle makers (chandlers), gold and silver smiths, laundresses, bakers, grooms, pages, huntsmen, doctors, painters, plasterers, and painters, potters, brick and tile makers, glass makers, shipwrights, sailors, butchers, fishmongers, farmers, herdsmen, millers, the clergy, parish priests, members of the monastic orders, innkeepers, roadmenders, woodwards (for the forests). slingers. Other Domestic jobs inside the castle or manor: Personal atendants- ladies-in-waiting, chamber maids, doctor. The myriad of people involved in the preparation and serving of meals- brewers, poulterer, fruiterers, slaughterers, dispensers, cooks and the cupbearers (who had the dubious privilege of tasting drinks for impurities!). |
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