They were employed to make written copies of documents (7)

I believe the answer is:

scribes

(Other definitions for scribes that I've seen before include "journos" , "Ancient writers (7)" , "People who once made hand-written copies" , "Copyists" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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