Clerks of the Signet c. 1539-1660
Provisional list c. 1539-1660 compiled by J.C. Sainty March 1999
- Clerks of the Signet c.1539-1660
- Alphabetical Clerks of the Signet
- Abbreviations
- References
Introduction
This list is designed to provide an account of the four Clerks of the Signet from 1539, when they began to be appointed by letters patent under the great seal until the Restoration in 1660. Subsequent holders of the office are listed in Officials, pp. 56-7.
List of appointments
| By 1539 | Derby, J. |
| 1539 2 Oct. | Huttoft, J. |
| By 1540 | Wriothesley, T. |
| 1540 14 Apr. | Knight, T. |
| By 1541 | Godsalve, J. |
| By 1541 | Taverner, R. |
| 1541 8 Jan. | Paget, W. |
| 1541/4 | Honing, W. |
| 1544/5 | Railton, G. |
| 1547/55 | Yetsweirt, N. |
| 1547/55 | Cliffe, J. |
| 1561 30 Oct. | Somer, J. |
| 1569 Dec. | Windebanke, T. |
| 1578/89 | Wood, J. |
| 1578/89 | Yetsweirt, C. |
| 1589 9 Mar. | Lake, T. |
| 1595 23 Dec. | Faunt, N. |
| 1607 24 Oct. | Munck, L. |
| 1608 | Gall, F. |
| 1610 5 Sept. | Windebanke, F. |
| 1616 13 Jan. | Kirkham, R. |
| 1623 27 May | May, Sir H. |
| 1630 9 June | More, J. |
| 1632 15 June | Williams, Sir A. |
| 1638 | Norgate, E. |
| 1638 | Warwick, P. |
| 1641/5 | Windebanke, T. |
| 1655 16 June | Nutley, J. |
| 1656 20 Mar. | Morland, S. |
References
- C66
- Chancery Patent Rolls
- CPR
- Calendar of Patent Rolls
- CSPD
- Calendar of State Papers Domestic
- DNB
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Docquets
- Docquets of Letters Patent ... passed under the Great Seal of Charles I 1642-1646, ed. W.H. Black (1837)
- HP
- History of Parliament
- LP
- Letters and Papers of Henry VIII
- Officials
- Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660- 1782, comp. J.C. Sainty (1973)