Custos rotulorum

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Custos rotulorum (pl. custodes rotulorum), Latin for "keeper of the rolls", the keeper of the English county records, is by virtue of that office the highest civil officer in the county. The position is now largely ceremonial.

The appointment until 1545 lay with the Lord Chancellor, but is now exercised by the Crown, under the Royal sign-manual, and is usually held by a person of rank, most frequently the Lord Lieutenant of the county. (The appointment has been united with that of the lord-lieutenancy throughout England since 1836.) The custos rotulorum of Lancashire was formerly appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and that of Durham vested in the Bishop of Durham until the abolition of its palatine rights. He is one of the justices of the peace. In practice the records are in the custody of the clerk of the peace. This latter official was, until 1888, appointed by the custos rotulorum, but since the passing of the Local Government Act of that year, the appointment is made by the standing joint-committee of the county council.

Lambarde described the custos rotulorum as a man for the most part especially picked out either for wisdom, countenance or credit.

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Custodes rotulorum of England	Bedfordshire – Berkshire – Buckinghamshire – Cambridgeshire – Cheshire – Cornwall – Cumberland – Derbyshire – Devon – Dorset – Durham – East Riding of Yorkshire – Essex – Gloucestershire – Hampshire – Herefordshire – Hertfordshire – Huntingdonshire – Kent – Lancashire – Leicestershire – Lincolnshire – Middlesex – Monmouthshire – Norfolk – Northamptonshire – North Riding of Yorkshire – Northumberland – Nottinghamshire – Oxfordshire – Rutland – Shropshire – Somerset – Staffordshire – Suffolk – Surrey – Sussex – Warwickshire – Westmorland – West Riding of Yorkshire – Wiltshire – Worcestershire

Custodes rotulorum of Ireland	Carlow – Cavan – Dublin – Fermanagh – Kerry – Kilkenny – Limerick – Louth – Mayo – Meath – Monaghan – Queen's County – Roscommon – Tyrone – Waterford

Custodes rotulorum of Wales	Anglesey – Brecknockshire – Caernarvonshire – Cardiganshire – Carmarthenshire – Denbighshire – Flintshire – Glamorgan – Merionethshire – Montgomeryshire – Pembrokeshire – Radnorshire

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