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Definition :

Paper Office (in the Palace of Whitehall), an ancient office where all the public writings, matters of State and council, proclamations, letters, intelligences, negotiations of the King's ministers abroad, and, generally, all the papers and dispatches that passed through the offices of the Secretaries of State, were deposited. Now merged in the Public Record Office.

Also an office or room in the Court of King's Bench where the records belonging to that court are deposited; sometimes called Paper-mill.