Daily AncestorFletcher
A fletcher made arrows, fitting the feathers, called the fletching, to the shaft.
The word comes through Middle English from Old French flechier, from fleche, arrow. Wiktionary also gives a general sense, a maker of bows and arrows.
Fletchers were traditionally associated with the Worshipful Company of Fletchers, a guild in the City of London. The bows themselves were usually the work of a separate craftsman, the bowyer.
As seen in a recordEnglish guild, apprenticeship and probate records of the 1400s to 1600s
Robt. Hayle of York, fletcher
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