APPENDIX 1
TEXTILE PROFESSIONS FROM BLC, EFF AND IPM GROUPED BY OCCUPATION AND ROLE LISTED BY PROPERTY AND YEAR

NOTES on Headings and Columns:Occupation= Role: The "Napper", "Quilter" and "Stitcher" are excluded from all but the counts of individuals because they only occur once and cannot be included with any other group. Those listed under "Occupation= Patronymic" are similarly excluded. Numerals to the right of the "Occupation= Role" entries indicate for each group first the no. of different individuals, second the no. of references per person totalled, and third the no of roles. Actions listed under the role "Conveyor" include conveyances by quitclaim.

Year: Dates cited from the EFF are precise; those from the BLC are frequently approximate, calculated as accurately as possible to within five years of actual date.

Property: An entry of 'homage,' 'service,' or 'rent' under the occupational role heading "Tenant" indicates obligations owed by the individual named. If the value of a rental is known for a particular piece of property, both the rent and the property will be listed under a role "Tenant" heading, but will be counted as one property. Properties are not listed for witnesses. They are given for "Tailor= Agent" to indicate the scale and value of transactions entrusted to tailors. Otherwise, properties under the "Tailor= Agent" field are not included in counts or statistical calculations. Also excluded from counts are properties listed under role "Patronymic."

Quantity: Pounds, marks, shillings, halfpennies and farthings are represented as pence or hundredths thereof. Properties spread over several parishes are divided equally among those parishes unless otherwise specified. Amounts of less than one acre of land are rendered as hundredths of an acre.

Property Location: Italics indicate a market town (note especially the predominance of town locations for drapers, dyers and fullers). Witnesses to documents concerned with more than one parish are assigned to the parish with which they are most frequently associated elsewhere.

Last Name: Renditions of the occupational name are as they appear in the ms. of BLC and the printed calendars of the EFF and the IPM. Additional place-name attributions are given modern English forms.

Source: EFF = Feet of Fines for Essex, ad. R. E. C. Kirk, vols. 1-2, Colchester, 1899-1928; citations are to vol. no., page and entry no. BLC = British Library Cotton ms Nero E VI; folio citations are to the unpublished prima camera (fols. 1-288), while for fols. 289-467 they are to page and entry no. in M. Gervers, ed., The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Secunda Camera, Essex, British Academy, 1982. IPM = Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 2 (Edward 1, years 1-19), ed. H. C. Maxwell Lyte, London, 1906; citations are to vol., page and entry no.

Counts: This list contains 83 (+7) individuals from 124 conveyances in 199 occurrences, filling 179 (+7) roles concerning 146 (+3) properties(nos. in brackets indicate the napper, quilter and stitcher, and patronymics). Properties are not included if their transfer was merely witnessed by a member of the textile professions.