Canterbury Tales Characters

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Across
  1. 2. medieval doctor
  2. 5. Wife of Bath; she is a clothes maker
  3. 6. A minister who is in charge of a parish. A member of the clergy and especially a Protestant preacher
  4. 7. the "beggars" of the church; they were assigned a district or section of the town and were to raise money for and tend to the spiritual needs of the sick and needy.
  5. 11. A tradesmen; a haberdasher, dyer, carpenter, weaver or a carpet maker
  6. 13. a servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page
  7. 15. a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries
  8. 16. someone who travels about the countryside selling official church pardons.
  9. 17. soldier for the king and country
  10. 18. knight in training; servant to the knight
Down
  1. 1. based on the word fraire for brother, a mendicant, traveling to preach, educate people, and treat the sick.
  2. 2. head nun of a convent; pray/tend to the sick and needy of the community
  3. 3. a medieval English landowner of free but not noble birth.
  4. 4. a cook in the service of the guildsmen. hired to be there
  5. 6. a man whose job it is to plow the land, especially with a plow pulled by horses or oxen
  6. 7. a person who owns or works in a grain mill.
  7. 8. Someone the medieval church hires to call people before the ecclesiastical court for their spiritual crimes
  8. 9. Scholar or Student of a particular subject
  9. 10. manager of someone's estate or farm.
  10. 12. captain of a merchant ship / Sailor
  11. 14. an officer who buys provisions for a college, monastery, or other institution.