• Under Elizabeth I:
Sir Henry Stafford. • 1567:
William Bowyer. • 1576:
Michael Heneage and
Thomas Heneage jointly. • 1601:
William Lambarde, with Peter Proby. • 1623:
John Borough. • 1643:
John Selden, parliamentary appointee. The royalist choice was the
Lancaster Herald,
William Ryley. Parliament took on Ryley, who had come to London, in 1644, who served as clerk of the records. • 1651: The
Long Parliament decided that the
Master of the Rolls should take over the post, with a clerk to look into the records. Ryley, who had been assistant to Selden, retained the post. • 1660–1669:
William Prynne. • 1669–1686:
Algernon May. • 1686–1689:
Robert Brady. • 1689–1707?:
William Petyt. • 1707–1730:
Richard Topham. • 1712:
John Anstis. • 1730–1754:
David Polhill. • 1754–1755:
William Hay. • 1755–1783:
John Shelley. • 1783–?:
Thomas Astle. • 1803–1819:
Samuel Lysons. • 1819–1840:
Henry Petrie. ==Notes==