OCCUPATIONS :L
| LACE-DRAWER | child employed in lace work, drawing out threads |
| LACEMAN | dealer in lace, who collected it from the makers, usually only those who had bought his thread, and sold it in the lace markets |
| LACE-MASTER | employed workers in factories or in their homes for the production of lace |
| LACE-MISTRESS | employed workers in factories or in their homes for the production of lace |
| LACE-RUNNER | young worker who embroidered patterns on lace |
| LACEWOMAN | lady's maid |
| LAGGER | sailor |
| LAGRAETMAN | local constable (Law-Right-man) |
| LANDWAITER | customs officer whose duty was to wait or attend on landed goods |
| LASTER | shoe maker |
| LATTENER | brass worker |
| LAUNDERER | washer |
| LAVENDER | washer woman |
| LAYER | worker in paper mill responsible for a particular stage in paper-making process |
| LEADER | person who leads the horse (and cart) transporting goods |
| LEAVELOOKER | examined food on sale at market |
| LEECH | physician |
| LEGERDEMAINIST | magician |
| LEGGER | canal boatman |
| LEIGHTONWARD | gardener (leighton a garden) |
| LENGTHSMAN | railway worker who had a length of railway track to keep in good order |
| LIGHTERMAN | worker on a flat-bottomed boat |
| LIMNER | illuminator of books, painter or drawer |
| LINENER | linen draper, shirt maker |
| LINER | flax dresser |
| LINKERBOY | one who carried a link or torch to guide people through city streets at night for a small fee (had to be licensed to trade in early 19th century had and term later sometimes applied to general manservant ) |
| LINKERMAN | one who carried a link or torch to guide people through city streets at night for a small fee (had to be licensed to trade in early 19th century had and term later sometimes applied to general manservant ) |
| LISTER | dyer |
| LITSTER | dyer |
| LITTERMAN | groom (of horses) |
| LOADSMAN | ship's pilot |
| LOBLOLLY BOY | ship's doctor's assistant or errand boy |
| LOCK KEEPER | overseer of canal locks |
| LONGSHOREMAN | stevedore |
| LONG SONG SELLER | street seller who sold popular song sheets printed on paper |
| LORIMER | maker of horse gear |
| LOTSELLER | street seller |
| LOTTER | one who bought odd lots of wool and consolidated them for sale |
| LUMPER | dock labourer who discharged cargo of timber employed by a master lumper or fine-grain salt maker, from practice of moulding salt into lumps |
| LUM SWOOPER | chimney sweep |
| LUNGS | alchemist's servant whose duty was to fan the fire |
| LUTHIER | maker and repairer of stringed musical instruments |
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