jan 1, 1413 - pelter

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A dealer in skins or hides. Reaney noted the by-name in Yorkshire in 1219 and it was not uncommon over the next 200 years: 1251 <i>Simon le Peleter</i>, Pontefract (YRS82/61n); 1372 <i>Johannes de London, pellter</i>, York (SS96/70); 1386 <i>Alexander de Ripon, pelter</i>, York (SS96/85); 1413 <i>Johannes Pane, pelter</i>, York (SS96/121). The rolls of the register of freemen suggest that the craft established itself in York in that period and at least one of the earliest men to be enrolled was an immigrant from Hainaut, a province in what is now French-speaking Belgium: 1376 <i>Petrus Petyte de Hanawde, pelleter</i>, York (SS96/75). The ordinances of <i>les gentz del artifice des pelteres</i> are undated but may be <i>c</i>.1400, York (SS120/60).

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