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]


SUPPORTERS,
CRESTS, AND COGNIZANCES,
OF THE
KINGS OF ENGLAND.