jan 1, 1527 - baxter

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A baker, especially the person responsible for the common bake-house or backhouse. The term could apply to either men or women. 1390 <i>Item lego Matildæ bakestir j goune de russet</i>, Blyth (SS4/143); 1379 <i>Thomas Bakester, bakester</i>, Bolton on Dearne (PTWR). It remained in regular use: 1482 Henry Alderson, Beverley<i>, baxster</i> (YRS6/2); 1527 <i>The pryce of wheyt gevyn by my lorde Maier to the common baxters</i>, York (YRS106/109); 1556 <i>a payne is sett that the Bakster do take no doughe of mens servants in payne of everye tyme so doyinge xijd,</i> Wakefield (YRS74/23).

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