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sortbes and certifies the re cords of causes 

 by hil!. in that court, into the Exchequer: 

 and the business of the clerk of the errors 

 in the Exchequer is, to transcribe the re- 

 cords certified thither out of the king's 

 bench, and to prepare them for juclg- 

 mewt in the Exchequer chamber. 



CLERK of the essoins, in the court of 

 Common Pleas, keeps the essoin roll, or 

 enters essoins: he also provides parch- 

 ment, cuts it into rolls, marks the number 

 on them, delivers out all the rolls to every 

 officer, and receives them again when 

 written. See Essom. 



CLERK of the estreats, an officer in the 

 Exchequer, who every term receives the 

 estreats out of the Lord Treasurer's re- 

 membrancer's office, and writes them 

 out to be levied for the crown. 



CLERK of the hamper, or hanaper, an 

 fficer in chancery, whose business is to 

 receive all money due to the king for the 

 seals of charters, letters patent, commis- 

 sions, and writs ; also the fees due to the 

 officer for enrolling and examining them. 



CT.ERK of the enrolments, an officer of the 

 court of Common Pleas, that enrols and 

 exemplifies all fines and recoveries, and 

 returns writs of entry. 



CLERK of the juries, an officer of the 

 Common Pleas, who makes out the writs 

 called habeas corpus and distringas, for 

 juries to appear either in that court, or at 

 the assizes, after thepannelsare returned 

 upon the venire facias. He likewise en- 

 ters into the rolls the awarding these 

 writs, and makes all the continuances till 

 verdict is given. 



CLERK comptroller of the king's house- 

 hold, an officer of the king's court, au- 

 thorised to allow or disallow the charges 

 of pursuivants, messengers of the green 

 cloth, &c. to inspect and controul all de- 

 fects of any of the inferior officers, awd to 

 sit in the counting-house with the lord 

 steward and other officers of the house- 

 hold, for regulating such matters. 



CLERK of the king's silver, an officer of 

 the Common Pleas, to whom every fine is 

 brought after it has passed the office of 

 the custos brevium ; and who enters the 

 effect ot writs of covenant into a book, 

 kept for that purpose, according to which 

 all the fines of that term are recorded in 

 the rolls of the court. 



CLERK of the king's great wardrobe, an 

 officer who keeps an account of all things 

 belonging to the wardrobe. 



CLERK of the market, an officer of the 

 king's house, to whom is given the charge 

 of the king's measures and weights, the 



standards of those that ought to be used 

 all over England. 



CLERK of the ordnance, an officer that 

 registers all orders concerning the king's 

 ordnance in the tower. 



CLERK of the outlawries, an officer of the 

 Common Pleas, and deputy to the Attor- 

 ney-General, for making out ail writs of 

 capias utlagntum, after outlawry, to which 

 there must be the king's attorney's name. 



CLERK of the paper-office, an officer be- 

 longing to the king's bench, whose busi- 

 ness is to make up the paper-books of 

 special pleadings in that court. 



CLERK of the Parliament-rolls, an officer 

 in the House of Lords, and likewise in the 

 House of Commons, who records all trans- 

 actions in parliament, and engrosses them 

 fairly in parchment rolls. 



CLERK of the peace, an officer belonging 

 the sessions of the peace, whose busi- 

 ness is to read indictments, inrol the pro- 

 ceedings, and draw the process; he like- 

 wise certifies into the king's bench tran- 

 scripts of indictments, outlawries, attain- 

 ders, and convictions, had before the jus- 

 tices of the peace, within the time limited 

 by statute under a certain penalty. This 

 office is in the gift of the Custos Rotulorum, 

 and may be executed by deputy. 



CLERK of the pells, an officer that be- 

 longs to the Exchequer, whose business 

 is to enter every teller's bill into a parch- 

 ment roll, called pel Us receptonim, and to 

 make another roll of payments, called 

 pellis exituum. 



CLKRK of the petty hag, an officer of the 

 court of chancery, whereof there are 

 three, the master of the rolls being the 

 chief: their business is to record the re- 

 turn of all inquisitions out of every shire, 

 to make out patents of customers, gau- 

 gers, comptrollers, &c. liberates upon ex- 

 tents of statutes staple, conge d'elires for 

 bishops, summons of the nobility, clergy, 

 and burgesses to parliament, and commis- 

 sions directed to knights, and others, of 

 every shire, for assessing subsidies and 

 taxes. 



CLERK of the pipe, an officer of the Ex- 

 chequer, who, having the accounts of all 

 debts due to the king delivered out of the 

 remembrancer's office, charges them in a 

 great roll, folded up like a pipe. He 

 writes out warrants to sheriffs, to levy the 

 said debts on the goods and chattels of 

 the debtors : and if they have no goods, 

 then he draws them down to the treas- 

 urer's remembrancer, to write estreats 

 against their lands 



CLERK of the pleas, an officer of the En- 



