This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Lancashire. * Bartilmew Hesketh c.1535 * Sir John Holcroft 1547–1560 * Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet by 1598–1623 * Sir Richard Molyneux by 1627–1630 * James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby by 1636 * Interregnum 1646–1660 * Richard Kirkby 1664–1681 * Caryll Molyneux, 3rd Viscount Molyneux c.1685–1689 * Hon Charles Gerard 1689–1701 * James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1702–1710 * James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton 1710–1712 * vacant * James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby 1714–1736