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The Six Clerks’ Office was located [o]n the west side of Chancery Lane, south of Carey Street, outside the City Boundary, opposite the Rolls
(Harben 534). The office was formerly the Inn of the Prior of Nocton, but around the time that it was reconstructed in
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It is possible to locate the Six Clerks’ Office on Ogilby and Morgan’s [o]n the west side of Chancery Lane, south of Carey Street, outside the City Boundary, opposite the Rolls
(Harben 534). The location of the original Six Clerks’ Office is now where the Law Institute stands. The office was formerly the Inn of the Prior of Nocton, but around the time that it was reconstructed in was a Brewhouse, but now faire builded for the sixe Clearkes of the Chauncerie, and standeth ouer against the saide house, called the Rolles
(Stow 2:430). In Henry Wheatley’s annotation on a diary entry by business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons, patents, warrants, and that had passed the Great Seal; also other business in Chancery
(Wheatley 1058). Eventually, as Wheatley notes, the
(Wheatley 1058). Elijah Williams further explicates that the need for such an office can be traced back to [t]he number of Clerks writing the Rolls of Chancery was increased from three to six
(Williams 1441).