What does WS stand for?

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Writer to the Signet

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In working life, he has become a Member of the Faculty of Advocates and a Writer to the Signet.

He became an apprentice to his father as a writer to the signet - in other words, a solicitor - but hated it and instead became an advocate in 1792.

As a Writer to the Signet he became absorbed in individual life stories and the conditions lying behind crime.