jan 1, 1571 - clothier

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A person engaged in the cloth trade; a maker of woollen cloth. 1402 <i>Jo. de Santon, York, clothier</i> (YRS6/144). In the textile district of the West Riding all the processes except fulling were carried on in domestic premises, and from the early sixteenth century the so-called yeoman-clothier was a central figure in society: 1529 <i>John Widhope, Waddisworth in Heptonstall, clothyer</i> (YRS11/241); 1571 <i>Robert Jagger of Horbury, clothier</i> (G-A).

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