Before chair making became generally spoken and written about as a separate trade, chairs, stools and benches, as you might expect, were made by carpenters, joiners and turners. So I always keep an eye out for these trades when examining early records.
In John Manterfield's Borough Government in Newton's Grantham The Hall Book of Grantham 1649 - 1662 (Lincoln Record Society Volume 106, LRS & The Boydell Press 2016) at p. 175 is set out [fol. 277v] 'The Fifteenth Court of Thomas Mills, 19 October 1654' the:
"Coroners Accompt
Att this Court alsoe Mr Robert Trevillian Comburgesse & Coroner for this Burrough and Soke of Grantham for the year now past Accompteth and saith that as Casualtyes happening this yeare there was one [blank] Everitt of Belton Carpenter was slayne by the turne of a Bell within the Steeple of the Church of Belton which the Jury sommoned & found it Death by casualty & misfortune &c And that thereby nothing Did accrue to the benefitt of the Common wealth of this Burrough. And soe he hath nothing to accompt for."
Poor Everitt.
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lincoln archives hold an inventory for a John Everett of Londonthorpe - 1719. His profession is given as carpenter. I wonder if there is any connection to the wife of John Amos, who was an Everitt from Wellingore ??
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