OCCUPATIONS :A
| ACATER | supplied food provisions, e.g. a ships chandler |
| ACCIPITRARY | falconer |
| ACCOMPTANT | accountant |
| ACCOUCHEUR | one who assisted women in childbirth |
| ACCOUCHEUS | one who assisted women in childbirth |
| ACCOUTRE | supplier of military accessories |
| ACCOUTREMENT MAKER | supplier of military accessories |
| ACKERMAN | ploughman, an oxherder |
| ACREMAN | ploughman, an oxherder |
| ACTUARY | kept public accounts of business |
| ADMINISTRATOR | directed the affairs of another |
| ADVERTISEMENT CONVEYANCER | sandwich board man |
| ADVOCATE DEPUTE | Scottish law officer who could act a public prosecutor |
| ADVOWEE | normally a nobleman, who had the right to present a clergyman to a benefice |
| AERONAUT | balloonist or a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls |
| AFFEEROR | official in the manorial courts who assessed the monetary penalty and also collected taxes and dues and were also called Assessor |
| AGISTER | official of the Royal Forests or in the New Forest it is the title for the one in charge of the ponies |
| AGWALLLA | ships fireman |
| ALABASTERER | worked with alabaster |
| ALBLASTERE | crossbow man |
| ALCHEMIST | medieval chemist who claimed to be able to turn base metals into gold |
| ALCHER | peron who ties hanks of hosiery or wool into bundles |
| ALDERMAN | senior councillor one position down from Mayor in the local council |
| ALE-CONNER | official who tested quality and measure of ale served in public houses |
| ALE DRAPER | seller of ale |
| ALE FOUNDER | official who tested quality and measure of ale served in public houses |
| ALE TASTER | tested ale and beer for quality first recorded in 1377 in London. Appointed by the Manor and forerunner of the Inspector for Weights & Measures |
| ALE TUNNER | employed by the brewery to fill ale casks (tuns} with ale |
| ALEWIFE | woman who keeps an alehouse or tavern |
| ALLSORTS STRIPPERS | sweet factory worker who prepared liquorice root for cutting |
| ALL SPICE | name for a grocer |
| ALMANAC MAN | official appointed by the Court of Sewers who warned the inhabitants of the Trent River area of higher than normal tides |
| ALMONER | gave out alms or charity to the poor on behalf of the parish |
| ALMSMAN | received alms |
| ALNAGER | official who examined the quality of woollen goods and stamped them with the town seal of approval |
| AMANUENSIS | secretary or stenographer |
| AMBER & JET CUTTER | cut and polished amber for jewellery |
| AMBER CUTTER | cut ambergris |
| AMBLER | officer of the Royal Stable who broke in horses |
| AMEN MAN | parish clerk |
| ANCHORESS | female hermit or religious recluse |
| ANCHORITE | male hermit or religious recluse |
| ANCHOR SMITH | made anchors |
| ANGLE IRON SMITH | made angle iron ie. flat iron bars bent at right angles lengthways |
| ANILEPMAN | smallholder (tenant of the manor) |
| ANKLE BEATER | young person who helped to drive the cattle to market |
| ANNATTO MAKER | worked in the manufacture of dyes for paint or printing |
| ANTIGROPELOS MAKER | made waterproof leggings |
| ANVIL SMITH | made anvils and hammers for blacksmiths |
| APIARIAN | beekeeper |
| APOTHECARY | prepared and sold medicines or drugs; pharmacist |
| APPARITOR | official who summoned witnesses in the ecclesiastical courts |
| APPRENTICE | was bound to a skilled worker for a specified time to learn a trade |
| APRONEER | term used in London for a shopkeeper |
| APRONMAN | mechanic |
| AQUARIUS | waterman |
| AQUAVITA SELLER | sold alcohol |
| ARCHIATOR | physician |
| ARCHIL MAKER | made a violet dye from lichens, used in the textile industry |
| ARCUBALISTER | one who uses (or makes)a crossbow |
| ARGOLET | horseman |
| ARKWRIGHT | skilled craftsman who produced arks (wooden chests or coffers) |
| ARMIGER | squire who carried the armour of a knight |
| ARMOURER | made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc. |
| ARTICULATOR | person who assembles skeletons |
| ARTIFICER | highly respected skilled or artistic worker or craftsman or one that makes or contrives |
| ASHBANK FAIRY | person who removed ashes and waste from ash pits |
| ASHMAN | dustman |
| ASSAYER | determined the proportions of metal in ore |
| ASSAY MASTER | determined the amount of gold or silver to go in coins |
| AUGER MAKER | made the carpenters augers (used for boring holes in wood) |
| AULNAGER | official who examined the quality of woollen goods and stamped them with the town seal of approval |
| AURIFABER | goldsmith |
| AVENATOR | hay and forage merchant |
| AVOWRY | term for the lord of the manor |
| AXEPEDDLAR | person who sells wood ash |
| AXEWADDLER | person who sells wood ash |
| AXLE TREE MAKER | made axles for coaches and wagons |
| AXLE TREE TURNER | made axles for coaches and wagons |
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