吏 (officer, an official)

彼は税関吏に呼び止められた。

He was stopped by a customs officer.

しかし詐欺や貸借の不払いがあれば両国の官吏はこれを取り締まり追徴すべし。

However in the case of fraud or nonpayment of borrowing and lending, the government officials of both countries should regulate this and impose additional charges.

将軍義輝の排除はもともと三好・松永の発案ですらなく、古くは阿波国守護細川持隆が最初に策した事であり、この事も示すように当初より実権と将軍専制に固執した義輝の存在は多くの幕府吏僚にとって煙たい存在であった。

Ousting of Shogun Yoshiteru, not even proposed by Miyoshi and Matsunaga initially, but was first masterminded by Mochitaka HOSOKAWA, governor of Awa Province, in a rather early year and, as this fact reveals, Yoshiteru who had insisted on real power and despotism by the Shogun, had been shunned by Bakufu bureaucrats since the beginning.