1 gen 1642 anni - wright

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A worker of wood, a carpenter or joiner. 1379 <i>Andreas Wright, carpenter</i>, Stockeld (PTWR). It was a frequent suffix in specialist by-names such as ploughwright, sievewright and wheelwright, all dealt with separately. Such by-names could remain unstable long after surnames generally were hereditary: in 1404-5 the granger at Selby Abbey had the services of John Wright for carpentry work (<i>carpentantis</i>) and his accounts show how he was employed: ‘searching in the woods and choosing timber for the mills, and renewing one inner wheel for the upper mill … and making mill spindles, cogs and other necessities’ (SAR136-7). In 1518, in the churchwardens’ accounts of St Michael, Spurriergate, payments were made to <i>Emond Wryght</i> who was also named as <i>Emond the wright</i>, York (CCW69). The wrights who worked on York Minster had their own lodge, like the masons, a place where materials could be stored and they could relax: 1570-80 <i>For helping to carry into the wryghte house standerdes, powles and boordes</i>, York (SS35/118). The word was part of everyday vocabulary: 1642 <i>the weeke afore wee intende to leade hey, wee sende worde to the Wright to come and see that the axle-trees and felfes of the waines bee sownde</i>, Elmswell (DW37). See felf, frame.

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