HOLLAND, Cornelius (1600-72), of Creslow, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. 3 Mar. 1600, 1st s. of Ralph Holland, Merchant Taylor, brusher of the robes to Elizabeth I, of St Laurence Pountney, London, and his wife, Joan.LS13/251, p. 30; Reg. of the Scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors’ School, ed. C.J Robinson (Lewes, 1882-3), i. 63 educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. London 1610;Robinson, Reg. i. 63. Pembroke, Camb. 1615, BA 1619.Al. Cant. m. 26 Mar. 1627, Sybilla, da. of Edward Forth of New Windsor, Berks. 1 da. 9 other children.Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton (1894-6), 131; C10/123/1; New Windsor par. reg.; The Second Centurie [1648], 1 (E.465.13). suc. fa. 1625.H.B. Wilson, Hist. of the Par. of St Laurence Pountney, London (1831), 12. d. May 1672.Bodl. MS Eng. hist. c.487, p. 1285.

Offices Held

Court: clerk to Sir Henry Vane I* by 1628.LS13/251, p. 28. Jt. collector, subsidies, royal palaces, 1628.LR9/105, unf. Clerk of the acatry 1629–35.LS13/251, pp. 28, 83. Commr. purveyance, 1631–9.Coventry Docquets, 83–8. Servant to prince of Wales, 1633–5; clerk comptroller, 1635–8. 1638 – ?Dec. 1641LS13/169, p. 228; LS13/251, p. 83. Paymaster and clerk of the greencloth, household of the royal children,, Oct. 1642–?1653.LS13/251, p. 100; Harl. 7623, f. 10.

Local: j.p. Mdx. July 1636 – 4 July 1642, by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653; Surr. July 1636 – 19 July 1642, by Feb. 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656; Bucks. by 1647 – ?Mar. 1660; Berks. by Feb. 1650 – bef.Oct. 1653, by c.Sept. 1656–?Mar. 1660.J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts, ‘Additional docquets of commissions of the peace’, Parl. Hist. xxxii. 234–5; C231/5, pp. 213, 532, 533; C193/13/3, ff. 3, 62v; C193/13/4, ff. 4, 6v, 61, 97; C193/13/5, ff. 3v, 6; C193/13/6, ff. 3, 5; T. Langley, Hist. and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough (1797), 17; Sheffield Archives, EM1480. Commr. for Surr. 27 July 1643;LJ vi. 151b. for Berks. 25 June 1644; assessment, 18 Oct. 1644, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Bucks., Surr. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Bucks. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). Dep. lt. Denb. July 1646.LJ viii. 411a. Commr. Westminster and Mdx. militia, 9 Sept. 1647; militia, Bucks. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Berks. 26 July 1659;A. and O. Westminster militia, 19 Mar. 1649, 7 June 1650;A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). ejecting scandalous ministers, Berks. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. almshouses of Windsor, 2 Sept. 1654;A. and O.; SP18/182, f. 205. securing peace of commonwealth, Berks. by Dec. 1655; Bucks. by Mar. 1656.TSP iv. 285, 583.

Central: member, recess cttee. 9 Sept. 1641;CJ ii. 288b. cttee. for Irish affairs, 3 Sept. 1642.CJ ii. 750b. Collector and recvr. of coinage money, mint, Nov. 1642-May 1645.CJ ii. 855b-856a; New Hist. of the Royal Mint, ed. C.E. Challis (Cambridge, 1992), 284–5. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 31 Dec. 1642;CJ ii. 909a. cttee. for advance of money, 11 Feb. 1643, 6 Jan. 1649;CJ ii. 963a; vi. 110a, 113b. cttee. for sequestrations, 27 Mar. 1643.CJ iii. 21b. Commr. conserving peace betw. England and Scotland, 20 May 1643, 7 July 1646, 28 Oct. 1647.LJ vi. 55b; LJ viii. 411a; ix. 500a. Member, cttee. for the revenue, 21 Sept. 1643;A. and O. cttee. for compounding, 28 Sept. 1643,CJ iii. 258a, 299b. 8 Feb. 1647; cttee. for foreign plantations, 2 Nov. 1643;A. and O. cttee. of navy and customs, 2 Nov. 1643;CJ iii. 243b, 299a. cttee. for excise, 6 June 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648; high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for indemnity, 6 Jan. 1649.CJ vi. 109a, 113b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of bishops’ lands, 17 Jan., 20 June 1649.CJ vi. 120b; A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 25 Nov. 1651.CJ vi. 143a, 363a, vii. 42b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 19 Sept. 1650.CJ vi. 469b. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651; to inspect treasuries, 10 Dec. 1652, 1 Jan. 1653; security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O. Member, cttee. of safety, 26 Oct. 1659.Whitelocke, Mems. iv. 336; Ludlow, Mems. ii. 131.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HOLLAND, Cornelius (1600-72), of Creslow, Bucks.

Will

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Estates

leased Creslow pastures, Bucks. from the crown, 1635;Coventry Docquets, 356; LS13/169, pp. 261-73. invested £600 in Irish Adventure, 1642;Bottingheimer, Eng. Money and Irish Land, 184. bought Creslow pastures for £4,796 2s 4d, 1650;E320/C6. bought manors of Knucklas, Rad. for £3,452 10s 7½d, 1650;I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (London Univ. PhD thesis, 1969), 297. allocated lands in barony of Decies-without-Drum, Co. Waterford, 1654.CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 523.

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