Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
This Officer was anciently one of the Chancellor's Family[168].
Formerly accompanied the Masters in Chancery in carrying Bills to the Lower House[169].
Reads the Titles of Bills in the House of Lords[170].
Sir George Copping was Clerk of the Crown, anno 1 Jac. I.[171]
The fee of the Clerk of the Crown, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, was 20l.[172]