title: Custos Rotulorum of Somerset
text: # Custos Rotulorum of Somerset
  
  This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Somerset.
  
  * Sir William Portman bef. 1554–1557
  * Sir Hugh Paulet bef. 1558–1573
  * Sir Amias Paulet bef. 1577–1588
  * Sir John Popham bef. 1594–1607
  * Sir Edward Phelips 1608–1614
  * James Ley, 1st Baron Ley bef. 1621–1625
  * Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough 1625–1636
  * John Coventry 1636–1646
  * Interregnum
  * William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset 1660
  * Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1660–1668
  * Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester 1668–1672
  * John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset 1672–1675
  * Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1675–1688
  * Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave 1688
  * Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1688–1690
  * John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge 1690–1712
  * John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett 1713–1714
  * Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery 1714–1721
  
  For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Somerset.
  
  