jan 1, 1466 - plasterer

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The skilled workman who applied plaster to walls, especially the outside walls of buildings. The plaster was evidently white. 1333 <i>Willelmus Whitebrow, plasterer</i>, York (SS96/28). The by-name remained in use into the fifteenth century: 1396-7 <i>Et in solucione facta Ricardo Plasterer et fratri suo ... pro parietibus prædicti tenementi plastrandis, 6s 8d</i>, Ripon (SS81/120); 1453-5 <i>Et de 22d sol. Johanni Plastr’ pro platsteryng muri aulæ ibidem</i>, Ripon (SS81/160); 1466-68 ‘Paid to William <i>Playsterer</i> ... plasterer ... for plastering £1 10s 0d’, Hull (YAJ62/160).

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