or HAMPER, an office in chancery, under the direction of a master, his deputy and clerks, answering, in some measure, to the sylva among the Romans.

(clerk of the) sometimes styled warden of the hamper, an officer who receives all money due to the king for fees of charters, patents, commissions, and writs, and attends the keeper of the feal daily in term time, and at all time of sealing, and takes into his custody all sealed charters, patents, and the like, which he receives into bags, but anciently, it is supposed, into hampers, which gave denomination to the office.

There is also an officer who is comptroller of the hamper.