Prior.—Secretary to the Embassy at the Hague; Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King William; Secretary to the Embassy in France; Under Secretary of State; Ambassador to France.
Tickell.—Under Secretary of State; Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland.
Congreve.—Commissioner for licensing Hackney Coaches; Commissioner for Wine Licences; place in the Pipe-office; post in the Custom-house; Secretary of Jamaica.
Gay.—Secretary to the Earl of Clarendon (when Ambassador to Hanover.)
John Dennis.—A place in the Custom-house. “En Angleterre ... les lettres sont plus en honneur qu'ici.”—
Voltaire, Lettres sur les Anglais, Let. 20.
“Pipe.—Pipe, in law, is a roll in the Exchequer, called also the great roll.
“Pipe-Office is an office in which a person called the Clerk of the Pipe makes out leases of crown lands, by warrant, from the Lord-Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, or Chancellor of the Exchequer.
“Clerk of the Pipe makes up all accounts of sheriffs, &c.”—Rees, Cyclopaed. Art. Pipe.
“Pipe-Office.—Spelman thinks so called because the papers were kept in a large pipe or cask.