Custos Rotulorum of Lancashire explained

This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Lancashire.

• Bartilmew Hesketh c.1535
• Sir John Holcroft 1547 - 1560
• Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet by 1598 - 1623
• Sir Richard Molyneux by 1627 - 1630
• James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby by 1636
• Interregnum 1646 - 1660
• Richard Kirkby 1664 - 1681
• Caryll Molyneux, 3rd Viscount Molyneux c.1685 - 1689
• Hon Charles Gerard 1689 - 1701
• James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1702 - 1710
• James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton 1710 - 1712
• vacant
• James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1714 - 1736

The office was permanently joined with that of Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire before 1834.