"hackney writer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1760, Tobias Smollet, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves",
          "text": "[…] he learned, that Justice Gobble, whose father was a tailor, had for some time served as a journeyman hosier in London, where he had picked up some law terms, by conversing with hackney writers and attorneys’ clerks of the lowest order; […]",
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          "ref": "1910, G. M. Godden, Henry Fielding: A Memoir",
          "text": "[…] and at this his first entrance on the world he found, as he himself said, no choice but to be a hackney writer or a hackney coachman.",
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        "A writer for hire."
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        "(obsolete) A writer for hire."
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          "word": "penny-a-liner"
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          "ref": "1760, Tobias Smollet, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves",
          "text": "[…] he learned, that Justice Gobble, whose father was a tailor, had for some time served as a journeyman hosier in London, where he had picked up some law terms, by conversing with hackney writers and attorneys’ clerks of the lowest order; […]",
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        "(obsolete) A writer for hire."
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