It is possible he was both a monk and a royal clerk.

At the time, he was still a royal clerk.

Prior to his appointment to York, he was a royal clerk and perhaps a monk.

We must have a copy sent in secret from this royal clerk who is our deacon!

Besides being a royal clerk, he was often named as a papal chaplain also.

Caffé Mulassano was the meeting point of royal clerks and artists.

William appears in Scottish records for the first time in the 1180s, appearing as a royal clerk.

He was a royal clerk by about 1156, when he first starts witnessing charters.

Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants - another aspect of crown patronage.

Maltote looked away, not daring to confront this dour but very important royal clerk.

He was a royal clerk before being named Archdeacon of Chichester by 1173.

Included among those royal clerks were some of Becket's most bitter foes during his exile.

The new King named him a royal clerk after the Battle of Hastings.

They started under Peter des Roches, who was also a royal clerk and administrator.

As such, it was essentially in the gift of the king and most of its medieval deans were royal clerks.

He became a royal clerk, and appears to have held the position of archdeacon of Lothian c. 1386.

The Provisions of Oxford in 1258 forbade the royal clerks to create any new writs.

Late in the reign of King Cnut its estates were used as an endowment for a royal clerk.

By the early 1270s he was working as a royal clerk, giving his services to King Edward I of England.

His parentage is obscure, but he was probably the illegitimate son of a royal clerk, John Scheves.

The chapter then elected Chauncy, who was a royal clerk as well as holding the above ecclesiastical offices.

The office was headed by the Chancellor of England, and was staffed by royal clerks.

Among the king's household knights he stands in the same position as his friend John Mansel among the royal clerks.

Nothing is known of Adam's early life; the first mention of him dates from 1256, when he was a royal clerk at the Exchequer.

Alexander had become a royal clerk and had obtained a Licentiate in Canon Law by 1350.