Henry Scobell

Initially under-clerk of the parliaments, Scobell became Clerk of the House of Commons from 5 January 1649, his predecessor Henry Elsynge having resigned.

Scobell also held a position as censor of publications, and then was Clerk of the Parliaments for life with effect from 14 May 1649.

[6] From 1655 Scobell became Clerk to the Council of State, a large jump in status, in succession to John Thurloe and sharing the position with William Jessop.

[8] In 1658, as a preliminary to the Savoy Assembly, Scobell called together elders of Independent churches from the London area, in the house of George Griffith (bishop).

[10] In October 1659 he was one of those calling on George Monck to intervene in the vacuum of power after the death of Oliver Cromwell.

An 1884 drawing of what the Old Palace of Westminster ( destroyed by fire in 1834 ), looked like in the time of Henry VIII when it was the seat of the Parliament of England
The title page of Memorials of the Method and Manner of Proceedings in Parliament in Passing Bills (3rd ed., 1670), [ 2 ] written by "H.S. E. C.P." (Henry Scobell, Esquire, Clerk of Parliament)