• Philip Orreby 1202–29 • John de Grey c.1246 • William de Vernon 1229–?1236 • Richard de Vernon • Earl of Lincoln •
John Lestrange 1241-1245 • John Grey 1245-1249 • Alan la Zouche 1250–1255 • Gilbert Talbot 1255– • Luke de Thaney c.1265 • Guncelin Badelesmere 1276-79 •
Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton 1281-1290 •
Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton c.1297 • Richard Massy c.1300 • Richard Daumary c.1325 •
William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon c.1330 • Hugh de Freyne c.1335 •
Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby 1336–1342 • Thomas de Felton 1369–1381 •
Sir John Holland 1381–1385 •
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York 1385–1387 •
Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland 1387–1388 •
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester 1388–1391 •
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter 1391–1394 •
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk 1394–1398 •
William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire 1398–1399 •
Henry Percy 1400–1403 •
Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot 1403–1419 •
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter 1420–1427 •
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester 1427–1440 •
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk 1440–1450 (jointly from 1443, murdered 1450)) •
Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley 1443–1459 (jointly to 1450) •
John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury 1459–1460 (KIA 1460) •
in commission 1460 • John Needham 1461 •
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby 1461–1471 •
Richard, Duke of Gloucester 1471 •
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby 1471–1504 •
Sir Thomas Englefield 1505–1514? •
Sir Nicholas Hare 1540–1545 •
Sir Robert Townshend 1545–1557 •
Sir John Pollard 1557 • George Wood Esq.1558 of Hall atte Wood, Balterley, Staffordshire •
John Throckmorton 1558–1578 •
Sir George Bromley 1564–1589 • Richard Shuttleworth 1589–1592 •
Sir Richard Lewknor 1592–1616 ==Chief and Puisne Justices of Chester==