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unusual facts about Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles



Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles

Denzil was the final Baron Holles, at which time the estates devolved on a cousin, John Holles (1662–1711), 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.

Ranulph Crewe

After the impeachment in 1641 of the judges who had affirmed the legality of Ship money, Denzil Holles moved the House of Lords to petition the king to compensate Crewe, who seems to have passed the rest of his days in retirement, partly in London, and partly at his seat, Crewe Hall, Barthomley, Cheshire, built by him upon an estate said to have belonged to his ancestors, which he purchased from Coke in 1608.

William Coryton

Finch was then held in his seat by Denzil Holles and Benjamin Valentine while resolutions against Arminianism and illegal exactions were read and declared carried.


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