Yeoman, it refers to a servant or attendant in a late Medieval English royal or noble household. A Yeoman was usually of higher rank in the household...
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Yeoman /ˈjoʊmən/ is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble...
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Domestic worker (redirect from Household servant)
employer's household. In some cases, the contribution and skill of servants whose work encompassed complex management tasks in large households have been...
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India Yeoman (software), a set of tools for building web applications Yeoman (hill), a categorisation of British hill Yeoman (household servant) Yeomen...
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Yeomen Warders (redirect from Yeoman warden)
Fortress the Tower of London, and Members of the Sovereign's Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary, popularly known as the Beefeaters, are ceremonial guardians...
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would have included a large staff of domestic servants, military personnel, priests, and clerks. Household members included noble thegns for whom such service...
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Valet (redirect from Body servant)
"youth, servant", Breton goaz "servant, vassal, man", Irish foss "servant"). See yeoman, possibly derived from yonge man, a related term. The modern use...
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yunge man 'young servant'. "Last name: Youngman". surnamedb.com. Retrieved March 4, 2017. […] dialectal variant of the surname Yeoman, itself of Olde English...
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Northamptonshire and owned land in Greenwich. They were a family of servants of the Royal Household. His father was John Roan, a Sergeant of the Scullery to James...
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Stephen Fox to the royal court, specifically to the household of the royal children, as "supernumerary servant and play-fellow". He married Elizabeth Smart (buried...
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Serfdom (redirect from Bond-servant)
serfdom Slavery Smerd Subjugate Taeog – Welsh serfs Taxation as theft Thrall Yeoman – English freeholders "Villeins in the Middle Ages | Middle Ages". 31 May...
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chamber". The Earl of Shrewsbury wrote to William Cecil about a suspected servant called Martin, mentioning he seemed to be forming a relationship with "Jane...
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rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman; by definition, the rank of gentleman comprised the younger sons of the...
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tables of servants who ate together, like Anne of Denmark's Danish servants. In November 1602 the embroiderer Thomas Barclay joined her household at Dunfermline...
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Caroline Angus argues that Jane's mother was Elizabeth Gregory, a former household servant who was left a surprisingly large amount of money and items in Cromwell's...
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Beatrice ap Rice (died 1561) was a servant of Mary I of England. She was first recorded as a laundress in 1519. Her name was sometimes written as Beatrix...
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A Gest of Robyn Hode (section Yeoman in Gest)
when he proposed that the original audience was the yeoman servants of the English feudal households, especially those of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster...
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place where the household would dine together, including the lord of the house, his gentleman attendants and at least some of the servants. At night some...
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8d) per annum; in comparison, the contemporary reasonable living for a yeoman was £5 per annum. Other innovations at Winchester included enforcing discipline...
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were allocated supplies of meat and ale and their own servant. Additionally, there were two yeoman of the Chapel, who acted as epistlers, reading from the...
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Serjeant-at-arms (category Positions within the British Royal Household)
The word "serjeant" is derived from the Latin serviens, which means "servant". Historically, serjeants-at-arms were armed men retained by English lords...
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serjeanty. In less important households such an officer was termed the yeoman of the buttery.[citation needed] Later, as household staff in the great houses...
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Susannah Hornebolt (category Household of Jane Seymour)
Henry VIII a Keeper of the Palace of Westminster, Yeoman of the King's Crossbows, and later Yeoman of the King's Robes. He had houses at King's Langley...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (category English civil servants)
CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of...
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Not much is known of Celia's origins or early childhood. Robert Newsom, a yeoman farmer, acquired approximately 14-year-old Celia, born around 1835, in Audrain...
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the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2015. Leask, Anna; Ian Yeoman (1999). Heritage Visitor Attractions: An Operations Management Perspective...
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State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 457 no. 520. Louise Yeoman, 'Hunting the rich witch in Scotland', Julian Goodare, The Scottish Witch...
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Salem Town), Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Mary Warren (a servant in the Proctor household and sometime accuser), and Deliverance Hobbs (stepmother of...
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specialist IT workers, engineers, bankers, doctors, nurses and civil servants.[citation needed] The Middle Class, at least in the 19th Century, had a...
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Thomas Dacres Butler (category British civil servants)
Butler served as Secretary to the Lord Chamberlain in the Royal Household before becoming Yeoman-Usher of the Black Rod, the deputy of Black Rod, in 1892. He...
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