King’s pleader and attorney, Wales 27 Oct. 1377-aft. 1382.
Commr. of gaol delivery, Conway July 1378; inquiry, N. Wales July 1378 (concealments), Salop Feb. 1399 (government of Shrewsbury), Bromfield and Yale June 1399 (income of Richard, late earl of Arundel),
Jt. justiciar, S. Wales 25 May 1389-c.1390.
Auditor, clerical tenths, diocese of St. Asaph Mar. 1397, accts. of the treasurers of the wars 16 Dec. 1406, of murage, Shrewsbury July 1407, Nov. 1409.
Dep. justiciar of the former Arundel lordships in the marches by May 1398 – Sept. 1399; steward of Oswestry and other former Fitzalan lordships by Dec. 1415-c.1422.
Parlty. cttee. to engross the Parliament roll Dec. 1406.
J.p. Salop 20 Feb. 1407 – Dec. 1420.
Escheator, Salop and the adjacent march 7 Nov. 1409 – 29 Nov. 1410, 10 Nov. 1413–14 Dec, 1415.
Bailiff, Shrewsbury Sept. 1412–13.
Biographical details about Holbache appear in Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), iv. 185-216; DWB, 359-60, and R.A. Griffiths, Principality of Wales, i. 121. Suggestions that there were two MPs of this name (as in Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), i. 61-68, 78 and (ser. 4), xi. 8-10) are based on an erroneously dated copy of Holbache’s widow’s gift to Oswestry school.
HOLBACHE, David (-d. c.1422)
