Under-clerk

(UNDER-¹ 6 a. Cf. MDu. onderclerc, Du. -klerk.)

1393.  Test. Ebor. (Surtees), I. 185. To the paresch clerk xij^s, and to the onder clerk vj d.

1426–7.  Rec. St. Mary at Hill, 64. Þe rode lofte & þe vndir clerkes chambre.

1450.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 195/1. John Browne, undir Clerk of oure Kechyn.

1516.  Will R. Peke of Wakefield. 4 June (MS.). To the clarke iiij d, to the under-clarke ij d.

1611.  Cotgr., Soubdespensier, an vnder Cater, or an vnder Clerke of a kitchin.

1670.  Clarendon, Hist Reb., XIV. § 73. An Under-Clerk for writing Letters and Commissions.

1708.  J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit. (1710), 573. Clerks of the Jurat, or Under-Clerks of the Treasury.

1779.  Mirror, No. 37. Certain concurring circumstances … placed him as an under-clerk in a counting-house.

1837.  B. D. Walsh, Aristoph., Knights, IV. i. I’ll ask but … to … serve you as your under-clerk in actions.

1841.  Thackeray, Gt. Hoggarty Diamond, ii. We under-clerks all thought it was a fine thing to sit at a desk by oneself.