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| | Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Haughton (6) |
 | | Holles states that he resided three years at Rotterdam, wholly dependent on the hospitality of a good woman who had kept him from starving, and that he could not leave the city for want of money. |
 | | Succeeding, also, in 1693-4, on the death of Francis, Lord Holles of I field, to his great estates, he became one of the most wealthy men of his time; but, as he resided principally at Welbeck Abbey, the further account of John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, is given under that heading. |
 | | Gervase Holles, in 1658, when he wrote of this chapel being in a ruinous state, attributes it to the “zeal of the present puritanical lady in her new-fangled religion.” As John, second Earl of Clare, held the estates at that time, the allusion would doubtless be to his countess. |
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