The following diagram shows the titles and numbers of the different types of clerks working in the department of the Chancery in the fourteenth century. For a description of the development of these offices and their duties, see “The Royal Chancery and Chancery Clerks in the Late Middle Ages,”  MLD has been working to insert records on these clerks, as noted in “The Biographies of and Sources for the Clerks in MLD.”

Source: Pretor W. Chandler, “New Inn in Chancery Lane and Tamworth’s School for Chancery Clerks in 1350,” Bell Yard: Journal of the Law Society’s School of Law 9 (1932): 3-16, at p. 10.