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1611.  Cotgr., Soubscelerier, an vnder Butler.

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1708.  J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit. (1710), 651. The Establishment of … the said Hospital [of Chelsea includes] … 2 Under-Butl[ers] at 5l. each.

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1821.  C. Butler, Hist. Mem. Cath., III. xxxvi. 238. He himself was, for some time, under-butler in Gray’s-inn.

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1887.  Miss Braddon, Like & Unlike, i. The under-butler was over fifty.

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