HOLT, Thomas (1623-86), of Abingdon, Berks. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Family and Education

bap. 7 Sept. 1623, 1st s. of Rowland Holt, merchant, of St Christopher le Stocks, London, and Mary, da. of Thomas Buckner of London.GL, MS 4421/1, unfol.; Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvi-lvii), i. 229; Le Neve’s Pedigrees, 337. educ. G. Inn, 11 Feb. 1646.GI Admiss. 241. m. by 1642, Susanna (d. 1701), da. of John Peacock of Cumnor, Berks. 2s. 2da.Vis. Berks. i. 229; Le Neve’s Pedigrees, 337; A True Reg. of…the Parishe of St James, Clerkenwell ed. R. Hovenden (Harl. Soc. xix), 207. suc. fa. 1635.C142/537/60. Kntd. 16 Apr. 1680.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 254. d. 28 July 1686.W.J. Pinks, The Hist. of Clerkenwell (1865), 44; Hovenden, St James, Clerkenwell, 117.

Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 1648; ancient, 1662, bencher, 1671, reader, 1675; reader, Barnard’s Inn 1667.PBG Inn, i. 368, 444, 455, ii. 15, 33. Sjt.-at-law, 1677–d.;Baker, Serjeants at Law, 197. king’s sjt. 23 Oct. 1683–d.J. Sainty, A List of English Law Officers (Selden Soc. vii), 22.

Local: j.p. Berks. Apr. 1652-aft. 1662; Oxon. May 1652 – Mar. 1660; Abingdon July 1653 – aft.Nov. 1658; Wallingford Nov. 1658 – ?; Reading Dec. 1685–d.C231/6, pp. 236, 263, 297, 413, 415; C181/6, pp. 329, 330; CSP Dom. 1685, p. 403. Commr. assessment, Berks. 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660; Oxon. 26 Jan. 1660;A. and O.; An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sewers, River Thames, Wilts. to Surr. 18 June 1662; Mdx. 19 Aug. 1667; liberty of St Katherine by the Tower, Mdx. 26 Nov. 1667.C181/7, pp. 152, 409, 416. Steward, St Katherine’s Hosp. London by 1665-aft. 1667.C. Jamison, The Hist. of the Royal Hosp. of St Katherine (Oxford, 1952), 141, 203; C181/7, f. 416. Commr. recusants, Berks. 1675.CTB iv. 788.

Civic: steward, Wantage c. 1654; Reading Apr. 1672–d.CSP Dom. 1654, pp. 385–6; 1671–2, pp. 266, 304. Recorder, Abingdon Dec. 1656-July 1675; Wallingford by Nov. 1658 – ?60; Reading 1680–d.Berks. RO, TF41 (microfilm), ff. 182v, 183, 230; C231/6, p. 413; CSP Dom. 1685, p. 403.

: Berks. and Mdx., Gray’s Inn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HOLT, Thomas (1623-86), of Abingdon, Berks. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Will

19 Aug. 1685, pr. 9 Aug. 1686.PROB11/384/176.

Estates

owned land at Bray, Berks., Oxford, Filby and Ormesby, Norf. and Royston, Herts.;PROB11/384/176. leased lands in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle, Berks. from Catherine of Braganza, aft. 1665.VCH Berks. iv. 157.

Oxford 1644

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