Could an opifex be a tailor

[g eli]

Thank you for your  interest. I think I'll leave the question for now, see if I can find our more about George.

[Andrew Tarr]

I had googled the word opifex but it seemed to me to be too wide a description, that is opifex is a craftsman of some sort,

My 1932 Webster's lists both Opifex and Opificer as 'obsolete' words meaning simply a workman, which is a direct translation of the Latin.  No mention of a surgeon, but as surgeons still carry out 'operations' that might seem equally valid ?

[GR2]

I checked in Maigne d'Arnis: Lexicon manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis (Paris 1866). Although French, it gives examples from Britain and wider Europe. It gives meanings in Latin and French.

OPIFEX. - Qui fert opem, chirurgus; qui secourt, chirurgien.