clerks of the pipe

A form of clerk of the pipe — A person employed by the English Exchequer and its successors to work in the pipe office maintaining the pipe rolls on which government income and expenditure were recorded.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of clerk of the pipe
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