More ancient professions

Medieval And Obsolete Professions: R to S

Raffia man ~~ A maker of straw or grass goods.

Rag cutter ~~ A worker in a textile (cloth) or paper factory.

Raker ~~ A street cleaner; one employed to rake street rubbish into piles.

Revenuer ~~ An official who enforced tax laws on liquor, working against illegal manufacturing of whisky.

Rigger ~~ Ahoist tackler worker, working on a ship's rigging.
Ripper ~~ A fish monger; seller of fish.

Rodman ~~ A surveyor's assistant.

Roper ~~ A maker of rope or nets.

Rotarius ~~ Wheelwright


Saddler ~~ A maker and repairer of saddles and bridles.

Safernman ~~ Grower of Saffron.

Salter ~~ One who makes or deals in salt.

Samitere (Samite) ~~ Maker of a kind of heavy silk suff.

Sauntere ~~ Probaby Salt maker.

Sausere ~~ Salter.

Savant ~~ Servant.

Sawbones ~~ Physician (What a disturbing title!)

Sawyer ~~ Sawer of wood; carpenter.

Scabbler ~~ Person who uses a scabbler (pick) to trim the sides of a tunnel.
Schumacker ~~ Shoemaker or cobbler.

Scribler / Scribbler ~~ Minor or worthless author.

Scrivener ~~ Scribe or clerk; professional or public copyist or writer; notary public.

Scrutiner ~~ Election judge.

Seinter ~~ Girdlemaker.

Seler (Sellarius) ~~ Sadder.

Sempster ~~ Seamstress.

Serviens ~~ Sergeant.

Servus ~~ Servant.

Sewer rat ~~ A bricklayer who specialized in making and repairing sewers and tunnels.

Sherman/ Shearman ~~ One who raised the surface of wollen cloth and then sheared it to a smooth surface; cutter of woolen cloth.

Shrieve / Shriever ~~ sheriff .

Sickleman ~~ a reaper.

Sifker ~~ Sievemaker.

Silkmaker spinster ~~ Female spinner.

Silkmaker throster ~~ Male spinner.

Simpler ~~ Agriculturist that we would call herbalist today.

Sissor (Cissor) ~~ Tailor.

Slater / Slatter ~~ roofer; tiler.

Sleymaker ~~ Maker of instruments to part threads in weaving.

Slopseller - seller of ready-made clothes in a slop shop

Snobscat / Snob - shoe repairer; cobbler

Soper ~~ soapmaker.

Sorter ~~ tailor.

Spicer ~~ a grocer or dealer in spices.

Spinster ~~ unmarried woman; spinner (female).

Spittleman ~~ hospital attendant.

Spurrer / Spurrier ~~ maker of spurs.

Squire ~~ country gentleman; farm owner; justice of peace.

Stabler ~~ Ostler.

Stasyon (Stawsun) ~~ Probably a Stationer.

Stevedore ~~ a dock worker or laborer who loads and unloads ship's cargos.

Stuff Gown / Stuff Gownsman ~~ junior barrister.

Sugarer ~~ Dealer in sugar. (Grocer ?)

Sumner ~~ Summoner or Apparitor.

Sutor ~~ Shoemaker or cobbler.

Swordcutter ~~ Smith who fashioned swords.