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The article deals with the history of the Křivoklát estate at the end of the Early Modern Age when new administrative procedures were incorporated into its management. One of them was a bureaucratization of the administrative apparatus of the nobility that put ever-growing demands on both current and newly hired clerks (and also on foresters) when it comes to education and fulfilling of work duties. With the vision of improvement and overall modernization of the estate, control mechanisms were being improved and the employees were also given new existential certainties. All this contributed to the constituting of the clerical staff as a specific socio-professional group that could be relied on not only by the owners of the estate but with respect to delegated competences also by the enlightened state.