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The officer responsible for awarding the swan marks and controlling their ownership was the "Master of his/her Majesty's Game of Swans", who had officers serving under him to look after wild swans and cygnets in a specified area. The varieties of different swan marks granted were recorded in a "register of swan marks" or "roll of swan marks", akin to a roll of arms.

Fully digitised, detailed records of some swan marks are available courtesy of the British Library in Add MS 44986.