Speakers
- 1450: John Chevir
- 1541: Thomas Cusack
- 1557, 1560 & 1568: James Stanyhurst
- 1613-1615: Sir John Davies
- 1634-1635: Sir Nathaniel Catelyn
- 1640-1649: Sir Maurice Eustace
- 1661–1666: Sir Audley Mervyn, Tyrone
- 1661–1662: Sir John Temple for nine months in the absence of Audley Mervyn
- 1689–1692: Sir Richard Nagle
- 1692–1695: Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet
- 1695–1703: Robert Rochfort
- 1703–1710: Alan Brodrick
- 1710–1713: John Forster
- 1713–1715: Alan Brodrick
- 1715–1729: William Conolly
- 1729–1733: Sir Ralph Gore
- 1733–1756: Henry Boyle
- 1756–1771: John Ponsonby
- 1771–1785: Edmund Sexton Pery
- 1785–1800: John Foster
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