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The word servant had a wide range of meanings in 17th-century England, from low-skilled, low-status labour up to members of the elite. Robert Scawen was a lawyer and Member of Parliament, but at the same time he was a servant of the Earl of Northumberland. In this capacity, he managed construction projects.[1] Even peers could be servants of the King.
In London, servant could mean apprentice, and sometimes the two words were used interchangeably.[2]
- ^ John Adamson, ‘Of armies and architecture: the employments of Robert Scawen’, in Blair Worden, Ian Gentles, and John Morrill (eds.), Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 36–67
- ^ TNA, PROB 11/193/145, Will of John Gower, Saddler of Saint Katherine Creechurch, City of London. Transcript at Your Archives.