Laudator Temporis Acti

Eileen Power (1889-1940), Medieval People (London: Methuen, 1963; rpt. 1966), p. 24, with note on p. 175:

Charlemagne ordered his stewards each to have in his district 'good workmen, namely, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, silversmiths, shoemakers, turners, carpenters, swordmakers, fishermen, foilers, soapmakers, men who know how to make beer, cider, perry, and all other kinds of beverages, bakers to make pasty for our table, netmakers who know how to make nets for hunting, fishing, and fowling, and others too many to be named'.²

2. De Villis, c. 45.

Foilers must be a mistake for fowlers. Likewise swordmakers should be shieldmakers.

The Latin:

Ut unusquisque iudex in suo ministerio bonos habeat artifices, id est fabros ferrarios et aurifices vel argentarios, sutores, tornatores, carpentarios, scutarios, piscatores, aucipites id est aucellatores, saponarios, siceratores, id est qui cervisam vel pomatium sive piratium vel aliud quodcumque liquamen ad bibendum aptum fuerit facere sciant, pistores, qui similam ad opus nostrum faciant, retiatores qui retia facere bene sciant, tam ad venandum quam ad piscandum sive ad aves capiendum, necnon et reliquos ministeriales quos ad numerandum longum est.

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