[See CHANDLER 2.] One whose trade is to make or sell wax candles.
1418. E. E. Wills (1882), 34. Iohn Baldok,… Waxchaundeler of London.
1466. Paston Lett., II. 270. To John Orford, wax chandeler, for xii. torches and one candell of i. lb., lvs. iid. ob.
1503. Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. York (1830), 103. To John Hynsted of London wexchaundeler for iij rolles of white wex [etc.].
1543. trans. Act 11 Hen. VI., c. 12. The waxchaundelers in dyuers parties of England.
1633. Stow’s Surv. Lond., 625. The Company of Wax-Chandlers, having beene a Brotherhood of very ancient standing,… became yet to be incorporated in Anno, 1484.
1706. Lond. Gaz., No. 4287/4. William Rack, late of St. Saviour’s…, Waxchandler.
1861. T. A. Trollope, La Beata, I. viii. 197. The old wax-chandler was a widower of many years’ standing.
