1736 Canting Dictionary / C / CROWN Office [thing]
as, He is got into the Crown Office, i.e. He's got drunk.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Crown Office in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).