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- sable Black in heraldry
- sallet an open faced helmet usually favoured by archers
- sanguine Murrey or dark red in heraldry
- scarp the side of a ditch
- scribe a writer. Someone who can read and write and makes his or her
living doing so
- scriptorium room or building devoted to the
production of manuscripts.
- scrivener as a scribe but usually numerate and acting as a clerk or
accountant
- scutage money paid by a feudal landowner to a lord in lieau of
service
- serf a tenant who is not a freeman. The serf went with the land if
ownership changed
- sheriff the country equivalent of a town reeve, in charge of a shire
(shire reeve)
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