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Two Early London Subsidy Rolls
… More likely the meaning is that of OF tabletier, viz. 'a pedlar'. Some Londoners are stated in records to have been … tells in favour of tableter having meant originally 'a pedlar'. A pedlar who set up a shop would become a mercer of the humbler …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… being derived, according to him, from pied puldreaux (a pedlar in old French), and therefore signifying the court of …