1 gen 1698 anni - filemaker

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These terms cannot readily be distinguished from that of ‘file-cutter’ and the evidence for all three is relatively late. Of course files will have been in constant use in the cutlery trade from the outset, but it is likely that cutlers originally made their own. In 1616, for example, an Eckington cutler called Roger Barber had in his possession <i>4 fyles with some other small tool</i>s (FBH118). The occupational terms which indicate that file-cutting had developed as a separate craft date from the mid-seventeenth century: 1657 <i>Jonas Tayler of Sheffeld filemaker</i> (PR3/206): 1675 <i>George Chow of Sheffield fylemaker</i> (TWH16/191). It was 1682 however before these workers were brought under the jurisdiction of the Cutlers Company (FBH118). Examples of ‘filesmith’ are recorded later than those for ‘filemaker’ although the two words seem to have had the same meaning: 1698 <i>Anna fil’ Joh’is Hellifield filesmith de Sheffield</i> (PR4/168). The OED evidence for both these terms and for file-cutter is also late which supports the view that recognition of file-making as a separate craft was delayed generally, not just in Sheffield.

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