1 gen 1655 anni - goldbeater

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One who ‘beats’ or hammers gold metal into thinner plates or gold-leaf. There are by-names in French and English which indicate that the occupation was established in different parts of Yorkshire from the late thirteenth century: 1233-56 <i>Thomas Lorbatur</i>, York (YRS92/159); 1277 <i>Willelmus de Popilton, orbatour,</i> York (SS96/3); 1331 <i>John le Goldbeter, </i>York (YRS83/196); 1333-7 <i>Henry le Goldebeter, </i>Fryton (YRS50/88n). Gold was also being worked in Sheffield from the seventeenth century: 1645 <i>Martin Webster, goldbeater</i> (FBH105); 1655 <i>William Kirkham of Sheffeld goldbeater</i> (PR3/196).

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