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Name Term description
Name P Pauper Term description

Parish pauper
Name P-N C of M Term description

Post-Nuptial Contract of Marriage
Name P.L.W. Term description

Power-loom weaver
Name Packman Term description

Pedlar, travelling merchant
Name Painter Term description

Artist, maker of portraits
Name Pairts and pertinents Term description

The parts and pertinents are what a piece of land was always granted with; they implied everything connected with the land granted, whether named or not, and could be considerable.
Name Palfurniour Term description

Palfurner, groom, man in charge of horses
Name Palsy Term description

Paralysis
Name Panter Term description

Painter
Name Pantoun-heilmaker Term description

1. A heel maker for soft shoes or slippers. 2. One who makes separate heels for fitting to shoes
Name Paper stainer Term description

One who colours paper
Name Papermaker Term description

One who makes paper
Name Parchment maker Term description

One who prepares skins for use as parchment
Name Park-keeper Term description

One who looks after a park on behalf of its owner
Name Parochinar/parochiner Term description

Parishioner
Name Parson Term description

Parish clergyman, usually pre-Reformation
Name Pasment-weifar Term description

Passement (decorative edging) weaver
Name Passenger Term description

Traveller or possibly a ferryman
Name Passion Term description

Acute pain
Name Pastry-cook Term description

One who makes and works with pastry
Name Paticer Term description

One who makes and works with pastry
Name Pauper Term description

A person who is destitute, one who is forced to rely on some form of charity or public provision
Name Pavier Term description

1. Paver (of streets, pavements, floors etc). 2. One who works on laying and maintaining the surfaces of roads
Name PC Term description

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
Name Peas/pease Term description

A leguminous crop