title: Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire
text: # Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire
  
  This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire.
  
  * Richard Sampson, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield bef. 1544–1547
  * Sir Thomas Holcroft 1548–1558
  * Richard Harpour 1558–?
  * William Gerard bef. 1564 – bef. 1573
  * Sir Edward Fitton bef. 1573–1579
  * Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (the elder) 1579–1597
  * Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (the younger) 1597–1601
  * Sir John Egerton 1601–1614
  * Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet 1621–1644
  * Sir Orlando Bridgeman 1644–1646?
  * Interregnum
  * Sir George Booth, 2nd Baronet 1660–1673
  * Lord Henry Booth 1673–1682
  * William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby 1682–1688
  * William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis 1688–1689
  * Henry Booth, 2nd Baron Delamere 1689–1694
  
  For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.
  
  