Henry Elsynge (parliamentary official)

He served as Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London jointly with Robert Bowyer from 1604 to 1612, and was named to the office of Clerk of the Parliaments in 1621.

[2][5] Elsynge attended St Albans School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was recorded as pensioner as of 14 October 1597.

[2][5] On 12 July 1600, Elsynge married Blanche, daughter of Richard Highgate or Hyett and niece of Robert Bowyer.

Elsynge took up residence on Tower Hill and spent his working days researching parliamentary precedents in the historical Tower records with their "crabbed medieval hand, the abbreviated Latin and law French which faded as men wound and rewound the clumsy parchment.

"[7] He formally held the clerkship until a few months before his death, although he no longer served in the House of Lords after Charles I's dissolution of Parliament in March 1629.

His studies of original documents as Keeper of the Records and his role in maintaining the records of the House of Lords in the tumultuous years leading up to the dissolution of Parliament inform his treatise, The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England, or, Modus tenendi parliamentum apud Anglos, which remained unfinished at his death.