squire: A young nobleman attendant upon a knight and ranked
next below a knight in feudal hierarchy.
yeoman: A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member of
a former class of small freeholders in England.
prioress: A nun in charge of a priory or ranking next below
the abbess of an abbey.
friar: A brother or member of any religious order, but especially
of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans.
(b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites.
franklin: A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding
extensive property.
haberdasher: A dealer in men's furnishings; A dealer
in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter.
parson: A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical
and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial
church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure
of souls.
reeve: A bailiff or steward of a manor in the later medieval
period; A high officer of local administration appointed by the Anglo-Saxon
kings.
miller: One who works in, operates, or owns a mill, especially
a grain mill.
summoner: An inferior parish officer in England having a variety
of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement
of petty offenders, etc.
manciple: A steward or purchaser of provisions, as for a monastery
or college.
Epicurus: Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a
random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270
BC).