?c1629 in W. Robertson (1798) 44 Adam Forrest, of the Justice-clerkship, by-north Forth.
1806 H. Erskine Let. in King George III (1968) IV. 451 A complaint to which he is subject, made him conceive it to be a point of duty to decline accepting of the Justice Clerkship.
1897 O. Airy I. 364/1 (note) He left Robert Moray.., who resigned the Justice Clerkship for the purpose.., as his deputy.
1908 W. Robertson II. 175 Lord Shewalton held the Justice Clerkship for thirty years.