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  Denzil Holles, Baron Holles - LoveToKnow 1911
Holles was also appointed a commissioner at Uxbridge in January 1645 and endeavoured to overcome the crucial difficulty of the militia by postponing its discussion altogether.
Holles was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the king at Newport on the 18th of September 1648.
Holles, who was honourably distinguished by Charles as a " stiff and sullen man," and as one who would not yield to solicitation, now became with Halifax and Shaftesbury a leader in the resistance to the domestic and foreign policy of the court.
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 Denzil Holles
Holles was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the king at Newport on September 18, 1648.
Holles took part in the conference with Monk at Northumberland House, when the Restoration was directly proposed, and with the secluded members took his seat again in parliament on February 21, 1660.
Holles, who was honourably distinguished by Charles as a "stiff and sullen man," and as one who would not yield to solicitation; now became with Halifax and Shaftesbury[?] a leader in the resistance to the domestic and foreign policy of the court.
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Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (October 31, 1599 – February 17, 1680) was an English statesman & writer, number singular notable as singular of the five scarifications of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.
Holles was singular of the commissioners appointed to regard with the monarch at Newport on September 18, 1648.
Holles, who was honourably distinguished by Charles as a "stiff & sullen man," & as singular who revenue to solicitation; first remote became with Halifax & Shaftesbury a leader in the resistance to the wifely & different polity of the court.
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After the riot of the apprentices on the 26th, for which Holles disclaimed any responsibility, the eleven members were again (3oth of July) recalled to their seats, and Holles was one of the committee of safety appointed.
On the loth of April 1661 he was created Baron Holles of Ifield in Sussex, and became henceforth one of the leading members of the Upper House.
Together with Halifax he opposed both the arbitrary Conventicle Act of 167o and the Test Oath of 1675, his objection to the latter being chiefly founded on the invasion of the privileges of the peers which it involved; and he defended with vigour the right of the Peers to record their protests.
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 Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (October 31, 1599 – February 17, 1680) was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.
Holles was the second son (John was one of his brothers) of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (c.
On June 16, 1647 eleven members including Holles were charged by the army with various offences against the state, followed on June 23 by fresh demands for their impeachment and for their suspension, which was refused.
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 Biography - H - British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Holles was arrested with Sir John Eliot and others for his part in the protest.
In the Long Parliament (1640), Holles attempted to mediate with Lord Strafford during his impeachment and, because Strafford was married to Holles' sister, spoke on behalf of Strafford's family in Parliament.
Holles' support for a negotiated settlement brought him to prominence as a leader of the Presbyterian party against the Independents.
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 Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Haughton (5)
Denzil Holles, the second son of the first Earl of Clare, was undoubtedly one of the most talented members of this great family.
Holles sat in Parliament for the borough of St. Michael’s in Cornwall and afterwards for Dorchester.
Denzil Holles, Walter Long, the resolute honourable gentlemen are upon him each by a shoulder: ‘By the eternal God, you shall not go, Mr.
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 The Whitby High School - A Level History - English Civil War - Personalities Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Holles was one of the five knights who refused to pay the forced loan and he was also involved in the three resolutions of 1629 which outlined the grievances Parliament had over arbitrary imprisonment for not paying taxes.
Holles was one of the eleven members who were purged from Parliament for being "willing to betray Parliaments cause" of fighting the king.
Holles was also a prime example of how the Civil War became a family war as he had three royalist cousins.
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 Pepys' Diary: Holles, Denzil
Denzil Hollis, who was orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London were joined.” He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.
Holles, 1st Earl of Clare, was born in Nottinghamshire in 1599………;..
Holles was accused of treason and in 1647 he fled to France.
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 Feudal Lordship of Winterborne Saint Martin - Napier
As soon as Parliament was dissolved Holles was one of the opposition leaders to be imprisoned in the Tower of London.
For his part in the Restoration of the Monarchy, Holles was elevated to the peerage 20th April 1661 as Baron Holles of Ilford in Sussex.
Holles died in 1679 and his tomb is in St Peter's Church in Dorchester.
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 Science Fair Projects - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles
In order to bring about the downfall of Danby (afterwards Duke of Leeds) and the disbanding of the army, which he believe to be intended for the suppression of the national liberties.
Holles at this time (1677-1679) engaged, as did many others, in dangerous intrigue with Courtin and Barillon, the French envoys, and Louis XIV; he refused, however, the latter's presents on the ground that he was a member of the council, having been appointed to Sir William Temple's new modelled cabinet in 1679.
He was faithful and firm to his side and never changed through the whole course of his life." He argued well but too vehemently; for he could not bear contradiction.
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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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 HOLLES, DENZIL HOLLES,... - Online Information article about HOLLES, DENZIL HOLLES,...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
riot of the apprentices on the 26th, for which Holles disclaimed any responsibility, the eleven members were again (3oth of July) recalled to their seats, and Holles was one of the committee of safety appointed.
Holles, who was honourably distinguished by Charles as a " stiff and sullen man," and as one who would not yield to solicitation; now became with See also:
Capital (1679) ; Lord Holles his Remains, being a 2nd letter to a Friend concerning the judicature of the Bishops in Parliament.
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 Benz
Hollis, [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at with high treason by Charles I. in 1641.
Denzil Hollis, who was were joined." He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on royal cause during the Civil Wars.
He was born in London, and ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to.
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 Arthur Haselrig
He early imbibed strong puritanical principles, and showed a special antagonism to Laud.
He sat for Leicestershire in the Short and Long Parliaments in 1640, and took a principal part in Strafford's attainder, the Root and Branch Bill and the Militia Bill of December 7, 1641, and was impeached on January 3, 1642, along with John Hampden, Denzil Holles, John Pym and William Strode.
On the occasion of the breach between the army and the parliament, Haselrig supported the former, took Cromwell's part in his dispute with Manchester and Essex, and on the passing of the Self-denying Ordinance gave up his commission and became one of the leaders of the Independent party in parliament.
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 English Civil War - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Part of the answer is to be found in what happened after the Scots handed over the king to the Parliamentarians in January 1647.
In the first few months of 1647 the Presbyterians in Parliament, headed by Denzil Holles, as the first steps towards a settlement with the king on their terms, pushed through Parliament measures to demobilize the bulk of the New Model Army, paying only a small fraction of its wage arrears.
On March 30 the House of Commons even condemned as treasonable a moderate petition from New Model Army soldiers.
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 What Planet is This? - Cerne Abbas
One of the next mentions of it is by the Rev. John Hutchins in a letter of 1751, where he writes he was told by the steward of the lord of the manor that the Giant was "a modern thing", cut by Denzil Holles only a century before.
The records of the Abbey do not once, for example, mention the Giant up to the Abbey's dissolution in 1539, though such a blatant local symbol is unlikely to have been tolerated.
Moreover, Denzil Holles, who had owned the land between 1654 and 1662, was a noted opponent of Oliver Cromwell and had once
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The Committee consists of the Earls of Essex, Northumberland, Pembroke, and Holland; Viscount Saye and Sele; and ten MPs led by Pym, Hampden and Holles.
September 2 (Friday) In Dorset, the Earl of Bedford and Denzil Holles attempt to seize Sherborne Castle for Parliament, but their inexperienced force disintegrates under fire.
The Royalists move their advance posts to the outskirts of Brentford, held by Lord Brooke and Denzil Holles for Parliament.
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 The first Civil War, 1642-46
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland and Edward Hyde led the Royalist moderates.
Denzil Holles, supported by Bulstrode Whitelock, John Maynard and John Glynne headed the "peace party" in the House of Commons.
In Parliament, a "middle group" under Oliver St. John and John Pym maintained a balance of sorts, but after Pym's death in December 1643, it became more difficult to paper over Parliament's internal divisions.
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 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Lord Holles his vindication of himself and of his son Sir Francis Holles from some foul aspersions cast upon them by Mr.
Denzell Hollis His speech to the Lords concerning the setling of the Queen of Bohemia and her electorall family in their right and inheritance with restitution for their sufferings July 9, 1641.
Speech of Denzill Hollis, Esquire at a conference with the Lords on Tuesday the third of August, 1641 : in justification of the three last printed votes by the House of Commons.
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 Admiral Sir William Batten
Batten, as a Presbyterian disliked the new regime, which quickly moved to attack it's enemies.
By August, with several of their colleagues under arrest, six Presbyterian MP's, including Denzil Holles and William Waller, decided to flee to Holland.
Their ship had nearly reached safety when it was overhauled by a Parliamentary ship and returned to the Downs.
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 junkopia » Blog Archive » Geology Fun
Oliver Cromwell’s supporters often called him “the English Hercules,” and at Higham castle there is a statue depicting Cromwell in the classical Herculean form, bearing a club and completely nude, except for an improbable piece of robe fluttering around his delicates.
Lord Denzil Holles, a fierce opponent of Cromwell, is thought to have commissioned the Cerne Abbas Giant for satirical purposes.
If this is the case, the Giant’s impressively erect phallus can be seen to mock Cromwell’s lust for power and his Puritan prudishness.
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 Cromwell and Fairfax Synopsis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
However, Anne retains a commitment to the monarchy and believes, along with many in Parliament, that the war has served as a satisfactory lesson to the King.
Under the leadership of Denzil Holles, Speaker of the House, a faction of Parliament secretly agree to return the King to power in exchange for valuable gifts and the promise of favour.
Cromwell is outraged; he employs his troops to recover the treasures used for bribery and puts the traitorous MPs on trail.
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 Baron Holles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Baron Holles was created in the Peerage of England on April 20, 1661 for Lord Denzil Holles, second son of the 1st Earl of Clare.
Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles (1675 – c.
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