Sir Ralph de Sandwich is described in Letter Book A as warden of the city, as well as warden of Cordwainer Street.
And when the time of the poor man's hanging approached, and that the poor man was come to the gibbet with the ladder upon which the said cordwainer should have been hanged, the craftsman's children (apprentices?
Tanners who make a notorious default in leather which is found by a cordwainer shall make a forfeiture.
Many of the London wards were associated with a craft, such as Candlewick Ward, Bread St. Ward, Vintry Ward, and Cordwainer Ward.
No shoemaker nor cordwainer shall tan their leather and no tanner shall make shoes, in order that tanning not be false or poorly done.
Were you ever an apprentice to a cordwainer in London?
Her name was Mary Ann Purcel, and she was the daughter of a respectable cordwainer of London.
This church is of Cordwainer street ward, and for divers accidents happening there, hath been made more famous than any other parish church of the whole city or suburbs.
This mayor gave tenements to discharge Cordwainerstreet ward of fifteens.
And every cordwainer that shod any man or woman on the Sunday, to pay thirty shillings.
Then from the south end of Bow lane, by Wathling street, till over against the Red Lion: and these be the bounds of Cordwainer street ward.
Then again, out of the high street called Wathling, is one other street, which runneth thwart the same; and this is Cordwainer street, whereof the whole ward taketh name.
From the cordwainer AEmilius had heard of the mutilation of the statue and of the commotion it had caused.
The message for Cordwainer went out of his head, though he went that way on purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cordwainer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
