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Appendix 9: Adult male occupational information<br />

from the 1608 Muster for the parishes of Dorsing<strong>to</strong>n,<br />

Long Mars<strong>to</strong>n, Pebworth <strong>an</strong>d Welford-on-Avon<br />

(n) % of males<br />

with known<br />

occupations<br />

Yeom<strong>an</strong> 8 11.6<br />

Husb<strong>an</strong>dm<strong>an</strong> 20 29.0<br />

Tailor 3 4.3<br />

Carpenter 1 1.4<br />

Miller 1 1.4<br />

Blacksmith 1 1.4<br />

Shoemaker 1 1.4<br />

Weaver 6 8.7<br />

Labourer 10 14.5<br />

Serv<strong>an</strong>t 18 26.1<br />

Total of males with known occupations 69<br />

Information gle<strong>an</strong>ed from J. Smith, Men <strong>an</strong>d Armour for Gloucestershire,<br />

1608, (reprinted Gloucester, Al<strong>an</strong> Sut<strong>to</strong>n, 1980). This muster document, subtitled ‘a<br />

census of able-bodied men’ lists 92 men, 23 of whom had unspecified occupations.<br />

These 23 include one gentlem<strong>an</strong> <strong>an</strong>d one ‘colyger’, possibly a wood-collier/charcoalburner,<br />

or does it me<strong>an</strong> someone attending a college? Those classified as serv<strong>an</strong>ts<br />

may include farm-serv<strong>an</strong>ts. Judging by the nature of these parishes the labourers<br />

would have been almost entirely agricultural.<br />

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