The Six Clerks' Office was a public legal office that served the equitable jurisdiction of the English Court of Chancery in London, England, until the mid-19th century.
In the early history of the Court of Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted as the attorneys of the suitors.
The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the business of the suitors.
[1] The Office also facilitated Chancery claims by litigants in forma pauperis (impoverished), including children and those suffering from mental illness.
[2] The "Six Clerks" were abolished by the Court of Chancery Act 1842 following the reforming work of Edwin Wilkins Field[3] and Thomas Pemberton.