responsibility for the Stone of Destiny, or the Stone of Scone, under another Royal Warrant, when the Stone was moved to Edinburgh. The Scottish Executive announced on 27 April 2007 that the Queen had appointed Lord Mackay of Clashfern to the office of Lord Clerk Register, replacing the Earl of Wemyss and March. The Lord Clerk Register remains a Commissioner for the Regalia and the Keeper of the Signet by virtue of the 1879 Act. As such the office is largely ceremonial. The Lord Clerk Register takes in the order of precedence in Scotland after the First Minister (as Keeper of the Great Seal) and the Lord Justice-General, and before the Lord Advocate and Lord Justice-Clerk Office holders incomplete list William, Bishop of St Andrews Simon de Quincy Nicolas, Clericus to Malcolm IV William de Bosch, Hugo, Galfrid, and Gregory, all served Alexander II 1253: William Capellanus and Alexander de Carrick 1323: Robert de Dunbar John Gray, appointed by Robert II 1426: John Schives, decretorum director 1440: Richard Craig, Vicar of Dundee 1442: George Shoriswood, Rector of Culter 1449: Sir John Methven 1450: John Arouse, Archdeacon of Glasgow 1455: Nicol Otterburn 1466: Fergus McDowall 1471: David Guthrie of that Ilk 1473: John Layng, Rector of Newlands, Glasgow 1477: Alexander Inglis, afterwards Deacon of Dunkeld 1482: Patrick Leith, Canon of Glasgow 1482: Alexander Scot, Rector of Wigton 1488: William Hepburn, Vicar of Linlithgow 1489: Richard Murehead, Deacon of Glasgow 1492: John Fraser, Rector of Restalrig 1497: Walter Drummond, Deacon of Dunblane 1500: Gavin Dunbar, Archdeacon of St Andrews, afterwards Bishop of Aberdeen Sir Stephen Lockhart, appointed by James IV 1531: Sir James Foulis of Colinton 1548: Sir Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho 1554: James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour, Parson of Flisk 1565: James Balfour of Pittendreich 1567: James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour 1577: Alexander of Easter Kennet (d 1594) 1594-1612: Sir John Skene of Curriehill 1598: James Skeen, conjunct with his father 1612: Sir Thomas Hamilton, afterwards 1st Earl of Haddington 1612: Sir Alexander Hay of Whitburgh, Lord Newton 1616: Sir George Hay of Netherleiffe 1622: Sir John Hamilton of Magdalens, brother to the Earl of Haddington 1632: Sir John Hay, Lord Barra 1641: Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie, younger of Durie 1649: Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston 1660: Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington, of Chester (until 1676) c1690: Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet of Leys 1696-1702: Charles Douglas, 2nd Earl of Selkirk November