Custos Rotulorum is in Offices of Parliament.
In 1549 Robert Keilway [aged 52] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Berkshire.
In 1756 John Wynn [aged 54] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Caernarvonshire.
In 1579 Hugh "The Elder" Cholmondeley [aged 66] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Cheshire.
In 1547 William Babthorpe [aged 58] was appointed Custos Rotulorum East Riding of Yorkshire.
In 1750 Thomas Archer 1st Baron Archer [aged 54] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Flintshire.
In 1753 Other Lewis Windsor 4th Earl Plymouth [aged 21] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Flintshire.
In 1624 Henry Wallop [aged 55] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Hampshire.
Around 1547 Henry Parker [aged 34] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Hertfordshire.
In 1704 Charles Finch 4th Earl Winchilsea [aged 31] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Kent.
In 1547 Roger Cholmeley [aged 52] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Middlesex.
In 1602 William Herbert 1st Baron Powis [aged 29] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Montgomeryshire.
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In January 1679 Andrew Newport [aged 58] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Montgomeryshire.
In 1685 Andrew Newport [aged 64] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Montgomeryshire.
In 1691 Andrew Newport [aged 70] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Montgomeryshire.
In 1701 Richard Newport 2nd Earl Bradford [aged 56] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Montgomeryshire.
John Stanhope 1st Baron Stanhope was appointed Custos Rotulorum North Riding.
In 1660 Francis Newport 1st Earl Bradford [aged 39] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Shropshire.
In 1708 Richard Newport 2nd Earl Bradford [aged 63] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Shropshire.
Edward Leighton was appointed Custos Rotulorum Shropshire.
In 1690 John Berkeley 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge [aged 40] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Somerset.
In 1731 Henry Shirley 3rd Earl Ferrers [aged 39] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Staffordshire.
In 1622 William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh [aged 35] was appointed Custos Rotulorum Warwickshire.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 7th March 1660. Ash Wednesday. In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's [aged 62], in my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether he knew of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, that this day Mr. G. Montagu [aged 37] was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' for Westminster, and that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of the Peace, with which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, so when I came to Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told me he believed Mr. Montagu had already promised it, and that it was given him only that he might gratify one person with the place I look for. Here, among many that were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, who promised me some seeds of the sensitive plant. [Note. Evelyn, about the same date (9th August 1661), "tried several experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it rises and opens only when it shines on it"]