It's rather interesting to think that Miller, Weaver, and Tailor must be some of the earliest "Service" or "Value Added" trades. I expect that in the past these would have been regarded with the same sort of distrust as Builders, Plumbers, Double-Glazing Installers, Car Repairers etc are these days.

The Miller would normally have had a virtual monopoly and farmers always thought they were being cheated when their grain was milled. Weavers and Tailors were often journeymen and therefore would be suspect because they were external to the local community.

It would therefore have been considered amusing that these characters came to sticky ends. You've only got to look at this thread about lawyer jokes to see that things haven't really changed.