HOLLES, Sir John (c.1567-1637), of Haughton, Notts. and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.; later of Westminster and Thurland Place, Nottingham, Notts.

Family and Education

b. c. 1567, 1st s. of Denzil Holles† (d.1590) of Irby-on-Humber, Lincs. and Eleanor, da. of Edmund, 1st Bar. Sheffield, of Butterwick, Lincs.CP, iii. 247. educ. Christ’s, Camb. 1579, aged 12; G. Inn 1583; Court to 1599. m. 23 May 1591, Anne (d. 18 Nov. 1651), da. of Sir Thomas Stanhope† of Shelford, Notts., 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 4da. (3 d.v.p.). suc. grandfa. Sir William Holles† 1591; Kntd. 1593; cr. Bar. Houghton 9 July 1616, earl of Clare 2 Nov. 1624. d. 4 Oct. 1637. CP, iii. 247-8; G. Holles, Mems. of Holles Fam. ed. A.C Wood (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, lv), 109, 248; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 90.

Offices Held

Vol. Low Countries 1586, [I] 1593, Azores 1597. Letters of John Holles ed. P.R. Seddon (Thoroton Rec. Soc. xxxi), p. xxxiii.

J.p. Notts. by 1591 – 1615, 1617 – 27, 1628 – d., liberties of Southwell and Scrooby, Notts. 1601 – 15, 1617 – at least25, 1629 – d., Mdx. and Westminster 1622 – 27, 1628–d.; Hatfield House, ms 278; C66/2047; C231/4, ff. 46, 144, 228, 259, 262; C193/13/2, ff. 42v, 52v, 87v; C181/1, f. 7; 181/2, ff. 221, 287v; 181/3, ff. 159, 266; 181/5, f. 52. sheriff, Notts. 1591–2; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 104. commr. musters 1595 – 97, 1605, HMC Hatfield, v. 524; APC, 1595–6, pp. 157, 389; Add. 11402, f. 106. muster-master 1595–6; T.M. Blagg, ‘Muster Roll for Newark Wapentake, 1595’, Trans. Thoroton Soc. x. 82. commr. oyer and terminer, Midlands circ. 1606 – 15, the Verge 1611 – 12, London 1624 – 26, 1629 – d., Mdx. 1624 – 25, 1629–d.; C181/2, ff. 6v, 231, 158v, 180; 181/3, ff. 131, 132, 211, 190v; 181/4, ff. 15v, 24v; 181/5, ff. 29, 57. col. militia ft. London by 1608; Lansd. 255, f. 493. commr. subsidy, Notts. 1608, 1610, 1621 – 22, 1624, Westminster 1624; SP14/31/1; Letters of John Holles, 513; C212/22/20–1, 23. commr. and collector, aid Notts. 1609; E179/283. commr. swans, Derbys. and Notts. 1614, sewers Notts. 1615, 1626, Notts., Lincs. and Yorks. 1616 – d., Leics. and Notts. 1625 – at least29, Mdx. 1627, Westminster 1634, Yorks. and Notts. 1635; C181/2, ff. 201v, 225, 255v; C181/3, ff. 162, 199v, 213; 181/4, ff. 16v, 23v, 174, 190v; 181/5, ff. 16v, 53. member, High Commission, York prov. 1620, 1625, 1628; T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 173; viii. pt. 1, pp. 70, 90; SP16/123/46. commr. gaol delivery, London 1624 – 27, 1629–d., C181/3, ff. 132, 211; 181/4, f. 33v; 181/5, f. 29v. new buildings, London 1625, Rymer, viii. pt. 1, p. 70. Forced Loan, Notts. 1627, C193/12/2, f. 43v. exacted fees 1634. C181/4, f. 159.

Gent. of privy chamber 1603–10; Harl. 6166, f. 68v; HMC Portland, ix. 129. comptroller of Household to Prince Henry 1610–12. Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for Government of Royal Household (1790), p. 329; C. Cornwallis, Life and Death of Our Late Most Incomparable and Heroique Prince, Henry Prince of Wales (1641), p. 92.

Member, embassy to Spanish Neths. 1605. HMC 4th Rep. 407.

Cttee. Virg. Co. 1609. Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, iii. 363.

Parlimentarian

HOLLES, Sir John (c.1567-1637), of Haughton, Notts. and Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx.; later of Westminster and Thurland Place, Nottingham, Notts.

Main residences: Haughton, Notts.; Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mdx.; Westminster; Thurland Place, Nottingham, Notts.

Author

J.P.F.

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Volume

Commons 1604-1629

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HOLLES, Sir John (c.1567-1637)